Missing Spear in RTW

[The Holy Milanese Empire]

hey im trying to make the town watch unit a full fledged phalanx this secondary weapons and everything. I have set the watch's secondary weapon as their normal spear but during fight the spear is missing. Do i need to add some text or do i need to model the secondary weapon? if so can you link a guide to making weapons models for units and how to implament it into the game. i would be very thankfull for assistance!

[Aradan]

Yes, you need to re-do the model. There's a tutorial section not very far from here.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=350

[florin80]

For a phalanx unit you need to add the long_pike attribute and the spear needs to be the primary, not the secondary weapon. The secondary weapon is the sword. So it could be done with text editing alone providing that the model has a sword designated as the secondary weapon. If it doesn`t, then in melee it will hold an empty fist. But the sarissa should appear no matter what because the model used is the vanilla default long pike, not the unit`s actual weapon. Basically it should look like this in EDU:

type             roman city militia
dictionary       roman_city_militia      ; Town Watch
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       Light_1
soldier          roman_city_militia, 40, 0, 1
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation        1, 1, 2, 2, 5, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         3, 1, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 25 ,0.73
stat_pri_attr    spear, long_pike, spear_bonus_8
stat_sec         3, 1, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 2, 5, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        2
stat_ground      2, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental      2, low, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 150, 100, 20, 30, 150
ownership        roman

[The Holy Milanese Empire]

thanks a lot!