How to make skirmishers start battle not on skirmish mode?

[Ianassa]

Hi! Couldn't find on search anything related so here goes. If this is already discussed a link would be awesome!

So I'm working on this mod for a fictional setting. One of the factions' speciality is their light infantry and skirmishing power, so I wanted to make a light infantry unit that is a hybrid of skirmisher/spearmen. Basically, mutch like the Thuerophoi (or thueros spears if you will) fought supposedly in real life, but I actually wanted to give them the ability to throw a few javelins outside of charging. Was able to do this eventually, so now I have this spear unit that fights in spear formations but has the fire at will and skirmish mode abilities.

Problem now. I would like to have this unit begin the fight so that it is not in skirmish mode, since it is primarily a spear unit. Especially since I'd like the AI to not have it running away all the time. Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

[crackerjack1348]

Couldn't you just change thuerophoi's missile weapon to a non prec_javalen ? Or does that change the stance to skirmish automatically? I know people have done this with Roman troops, look for a fire at will tutorial, I'm sure I've seen them before.

[Ianassa]

They have regural javelins already, but I tried changin their category back to melee infantry, which disabled the skirmish mode althogether. Not sure if I like this more or less now, at least they behave like I want when the AI uses them, but now I dont have a skirmish option available if I want to... hmm. We'll I'll keep the unit this way for a while and see how I like it. Thanks for the reply!