Do cavalry have secondary weapons?

**meerkatology** · May 20, 2014, 11:48 PM

Sorry if it's been answered before, but do cavs like cataphracts have secondary weapons with different stats or is it just the animation?

**Zonac** · May 21, 2014, 01:54 AM

just animation as far as i know. thats why good shock cav is overall better then melle cav..:/

**JObadiah** · May 21, 2014, 04:34 AM

Separate stats for a secondary melee weapon are not currently possible. Pike and shock cavalry units have sword attachments/animations, but they're still considered to be wielding pikes/lances while visually using their swords.

**KAM 2150** · May 21, 2014, 04:36 AM

All melee units have only one value for close combat, only separate ones are for ranged combat. That is why for example phalanx units have the same anti cav value both for pikes and swords.

**blub19** · May 21, 2014, 11:17 AM

can you ask per script which wapon is used? if so, an ability like stamina switched by script could be an option.

**KAM 2150** · May 21, 2014, 11:38 AM

Do not know. Stamina script only does that you can see the stamina of the unit, but buton does not do anything. Plus not sure how AI would handle it.

**meerkatology** · May 21, 2014, 12:35 PM

what a pitty, Rome 1 had secondary cav weapons and we had some cavs with lower charges but AP Secondary weapons like axes/maces and you actually used them for different purposes =\

plus cataphracts switching to axes that still doing 0 ap dmg and +20 bonus to large is ... lol =\

**Matmannen** · May 21, 2014, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by meerkatology

what a pitty, Rome 1 had secondary cav weapons and we had some cavs with lower charges but AP Secondary weapons like axes/maces and you actually used them for different purposes =\

plus cataphracts switching to axes that still doing 0 ap dmg and +20 bonus to large is ... lol =\

So many issues where overlooked and ignored in the development of Rome II