CloseCombat CAI BAI v01 (Update 13.02.2015)

[Dago Red]

Trying this now, will give feedback. The battles are awful, hope this helps! Thanks.

[DavidtheDuke]

I love the battles with this, they feel more 'solid', like in medieval 2. Thanks ALOT! Now we just need to figure out how to get the game to promote field battles (and get rid of those unjustified flag points). I actually do believe in flag poitns, but there have been battles where I just didn't get their reasoning.

[VektorT]

... pike phalanx...ok, i will check and possibly fix.

Please please please put a good work on the phalanx! They are crappy in vanilla Rome 2! Even militias can go through the pikes. I miss good old Rome TW phalanx. You had to flank it, front charge is just suicide.

[KareemOWheat]

So I'm confused, does this help units keep formations better?

[DavidtheDuke]

Please please please put a good work on the phalanx! They are crappy in vanilla Rome 2! Even militias can go through the pikes. I miss good old Rome TW phalanx. You had to flank it, front charge is just suicide.

Odd, they seem to work fine for me.

[theDaedricPrince]

So..what's the point of this mod?

[ToonTotalWar]

So..what's the point of this mod?

It slows down the pace of the battles so that they last longer, as the CA battles resemble "Sunderland fans fighting girls in the bigg market"

[DavidtheDuke]

It slows down the pace of the battles so that they last longer, as the CA battles resemble "Sunderland fans fighting girls in the bigg market"

I quite like it because the morale values I don't really think are that bad. It's just the moshing of the units (and sometimes AI running through to get to victory flags) that really ruins it. So this mod fixes the kill rate and "slippery" warscape melees. Square formation seems to be bugged in this unfortunately. Phalanxes work IMO, however they don't have a super-straight line. They still kill many more than they die, which is how it should be (they should not be nigh invincible from the front IMO, just nearly).

[TheFunnyOne1125]

Just tried. Great Mod!!!!

Just had a 14 minute battle. Where the Barbarians got punished by my hoplites.

The hoplite formation seems a little buggy. Sometimes units moving sporadically while marching. I don't know if this was a Vanilla problem or not.

[Haikka]

When marching the units don't march in such a nice formation as in vanilla

[Luntik]

I'm ready to fix Phalanxes,
but I need the schema table 'unit_spacings_tables' for PFM

This does not work for me

  <table table_name='unit_spacings_tables'         table_version='2'
         guid='90094125-4b13-4b66-95b0-e92d6d1f6ca1'>
    <field name='key' type='string_ascii' pk='true' />
    <field name='close_formation_spacing_horizontal' type='float' />
    <field name='close_formation_spacing_vertical' type='float' />
    <field name='close_formation_spacing_variation' type='float' />
    <field name='loose_formation_spacing_horizontal' type='float' />
    <field name='loose_formation_spacing_vertical' type='float' />
    <field name='loose_formation_spacing_variation' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_close_formation_spacing_horizontal' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_close_formation_spacing_vertical' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_close_formation_spacing_variation' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_loose_formation_spacing_horizontal' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_loose_formation_spacing_vertical' type='float' />
    <field name='dismounted_loose_formation_spacing_variation' type='float' />
    <field name='horde' type='boolean' />
  </table>

[Soul Reapir]

whoa nice mod. Just tried it out. Probably the best temporary fix we are going too get until a large overhaul mod comes out. Very nice work, like another member said, this really does resemble Medieval 2's battles. Still not as long as M2TW, but waaaaay better then vanilla Rome 2.

[Hinkel]

Should I restart a campaign for that? Or save game compatible?

[Maledon]

What's "staginess"?

[Luntik]

Should I restart a campaign for that? Or save game compatible?

compatible

What's "staginess"?

like movie


/English is not the native language for me/

[RochesterFanatic]

Erm how is this with Yarkis Personal battle mod? Are the compatible?

[Luntik]

RochesterFanatic, partially, see the link

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

how easy is it to mod rome 2 then?

[SqueakySniper]

Can somebody please tell me how to open the .pack files. I have the Pack File Manager 2.4.1 but when I go File>Open>Close_Combat.pack I get an Unknown Header Type PFH4 Exception

[Luntik]

how easy is it to mod rome 2 then?

same as ETW NTW S2TW

Can somebody please tell me how to open the .pack files ...

you need to use the PFM 3.0 http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...L-PFM-3-0-beta