Cavalry No Secondary

[Corakus]

Is there a way to remove a cavalry unit's secondary weapon and force them to attack with their primary?I'm trying to get mounted knights to only attack with lances.What would happen if I did this, would they swing the lance like a sword?Or would they just sit there and not attack with their lances unless I charged them at an enemy?

[Taiji]

Here is an example of how to do it easily:

type				Riddere
dictionary			Riddere
category			cavalry
class				heavy
voice_type			Heavy
banner faction		main_cavalry
banner holy			crusade_cavalry
soldier				Mailed_Knights, 22, 0, 1
officer				northern_captain_early_flag
officer				northern_captain_early_flag
mount				heavy horse
mount_effect		camel -4
attributes			sea_faring, hide_forest, very_hardy, can_withdraw, knight, can_formed_charge
formation			1.6, 3.4, 3, 6, 2, square
stat_health			1, 7
stat_pri			11, 14, no, 0, 0, melee, missile_mechanical, piercing, spear, 25, 1.5
stat_pri_attr		ap, launching
stat_sec			13, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 30, 1 ;L7
stat_sec_attr		no
stat_pri_armour		9, 18, 4, metal
stat_sec_armour		0, 0, flesh
stat_heat			5
stat_ground			0, -4, -8, 3
stat_mental			15, disciplined, trained
stat_charge_dist	45
stat_fire_delay		0
stat_food			60, 300
stat_cost			1, 4500, 450, 450, 450, 1270, 4, 220
armour_ug_levels	3, 4, 7
armour_ug_models	Riddere, Riddere_ug1, Riddere_ug1
ownership			norway
era 1				norway
era 2				norway
recruit_priority_offset    20

The blue bit is the animations, you need to make lancers into spearers... So we switch 'Mailed_Knights', in the example above, with 'Mounted_Sergeants' in the example below.

The green bit is for secondary weapons and it's where we tell the game not to use any secondary weapon in the example below:

type				Riddere
dictionary			Riddere
category			cavalry
class				heavy
voice_type		Heavy
banner faction		main_cavalry
banner holy		crusade_cavalry
soldier			Mounted_Sergeants, 22, 0, 1
officer			northern_captain_early_flag
officer			northern_captain_early_flag
mount			heavy horse
mount_effect		camel -4
attributes			sea_faring, hide_forest, very_hardy, can_withdraw, knight, can_formed_charge
formation			1.6, 3.4, 3, 6, 2, square
stat_health		1, 7
stat_pri			11, 14, no, 0, 0, melee, missile_mechanical, piercing, spear, 25, 1.5
stat_pri_attr		ap, launching
stat_sec			0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 10, 1 ;L7
stat_sec_attr		no
stat_pri_armour	9, 18, 4, metal
stat_sec_armour	0, 0, flesh
stat_heat			5
stat_ground		0, -4, -8, 3
stat_mental		15, disciplined, trained
stat_charge_dist	45
stat_fire_delay		0
stat_food			60, 300
stat_cost			1, 4500, 450, 450, 450, 1270, 4, 220
armour_ug_levels	3, 4, 7
armour_ug_models	Riddere, Riddere_ug1, Riddere_ug1
ownership			norway
era 1				norway
era 2				norway
recruit_priority_offset    20

Sorry about the messed up formatting in the examples, something is lost in translation with tabs...

The reason you have to switch animations is that lance animations can't attack to the sides. The engine expects cav to be able to attack to the sides (it doesn't turn them to face opponents), so if they're stuck on lancer animations - they're screwed. But it's not ideal to use spear, it has it's own drawbacks, like no couching animations.

BTW it's the reason why in my opinion officers should never use lance animations. They cannot have a secondary weapon, so they just suck once the charge is over.