modding for unit rotation?

[charlieh]

Are there any potential values that I can manipulate in order to decrease the amount of rotation when units are engaged with multiple AI enemy units, it seems to have become worse since patch 5. I did create my own mod, however, this only changed fatigue values and hit chance values, I'm sure that would have no effect on such an issue. Also I noticed a bug where a single barbarian soldier was holding thin air instead of a sword, could this be a bug associated with my own mod? Any ideas on either of these chaps?

[JaM]

only thing possible right now is to remove formed attack from these units, which will cause them behave more like barbarian units, anyway that also means they will have a problem actually keeping the formation intact.

[charlieh]

I think you are right, I tried decreasing some of the penalties for attacking units on the flank and rear to 0, in a hopeful attempt, so that perhaps units are encouraged to engage frontally and therefore rotation is not needed. It seemed to help in the one battle I tested, but I think this was an anomaly. I have found that different battles can range quite widely in how badly combat is effected by this rotation business. However, I do not want to change it, it just seems completely wrong that a Roman unit should not fight in formation. Perhaps we shall just have to keep our fingers crossed for future patches.

[charlieh]

I think you are right, I tried decreasing some of the penalties for units being attacked on the flank and rear to 0, in a hopeful attempt, so that perhaps units are encouraged to engage frontally and therefore rotation is not needed. It seemed to help in the one battle I tested, but I think this was an anomaly. I have found that different battles can range quite widely in how badly combat is effected by this rotation business. However, I do not want to change it, it just seems completely wrong that a Roman unit should not fight in formation. Perhaps we shall just have to keep our fingers crossed for future patches.

[RadixHidayat]

I noticed that phalanx formation don't cause unit to rotate..

We can try to create a custom "guard mode button" by creating a new unit ability that causes unit to behave like phalanx, but without other phalanx benefits

1. Make new unit abilities in unit_special_abilities_tables
2. set the value for "active_time", "recharge_time", "num_uses", etc to -1 (just like other formation special abilities)
3. Assign "pike_phalanx_formation" in column "assume_specific_behavior"
4. Make new special ability phase with no effect

Anyone know how to assign UI things, like button, name, tooltip, etc?

[JaM]

Also reducing maneuverability of unit in battle entities might do the trick probably.. but needs to be tested.