huh... how did that happen???

[Oddball_E8]

whilst playing a siegeattack on macedon with my greek armies today i encountered something strange...

ive modded the game so that the greek generals bodyguard consists of hoplite elites on foot... now i used the general to attack the wall and for some reason they attacked with their swords!

wich is very very strange since they dont have swords as secondary weapons (yes, the model does, but not the unit)... at first i thought they might just have had their swords instead of spears when climbing the siege tower (like some kind of small animation bug), but once they reached the wall they kept their swords... and once they had defeated the enemy they still kept their swords!
incredible... of course i didnt mind (imho swords look better than spears when fighting on a wall) but its still a bit odd

oh and ive also modded the unit that the generals guard uses... its a hypaspist from the EB mod... but that shoudnt make a diff... right?

[Gigantus]

It seems that the AI changes the primary weapon of spear units to swords when attacking walls. This was already happening in the vanilla version. Initially I had problems to get phalanx units to use a tower (push it) until I realized that you had to get them out of phalanx mode.

[The Walrus]

It seems that the AI changes the primary weapon of spear units to swords when attacking walls. This was already happening in the vanilla version. Initially I had problems to get phalanx units to use a tower (push it) until I realized that you had to get them out of phalanx mode.

And I think guard mode stops them from entering it.