Pike men

[SirWarts]

Im shur this is been discussed so im not even gonna ask when they will be fixed as everybody who plays on hear know medieval 2 pike men are a mess.

So the next best thing does any body know where and how to change pike men stats and make it to where they will NOT go to there secondary weapons??

[Caesar Clivus]

Next best thing is to remove the secondary weapons entirely. Open up export_descr_unit.txt, find the pike units and replace the stat_sec line with the following:

stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1

[Tomik]

And what about to press the "Defend" button during the battle? You can see that after that your first lines put their pikes down to "phalanx" formation... I think it works fine...

[John Haukewood]

They will still switch to swords of you have guard mode on, just at a slower rate because they don't move. Guard mode actually hurts rather than helps sometimes; pikes that aren't moving forward don't really kill anything, even of they die slower.

[SirWarts]

Caesar Clivus thank you

Is that location in the data folder?

[Caesar Clivus]

Yes it is.

[stoogeofstooges]

Next best thing is to remove the secondary weapons entirely. Open up export_descr_unit.txt, find the pike units and replace the stat_sec line with the following:

stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1

I went to the Baltic Crusades folder in the mods folder, found export_desc_units, and changed the pikemen stats like you said, but they still switch to swords.

EDIT: Never mind, I found it, there were 2 export_descr_unit to choose from, one labeled "Teuton" which was the one I edited first. I got the right one working.