Following the discussion on infantry charges, I've been doing some testing with charge distances, and my observations have been inconclusive. I need some more people looking at this and feeding back to get a better picture of what's going on.
The current charge distances on the stat_charge_dist line for each unit are shorter than in vanilla. We shortened them because it appeared to improve cohesion, but it may have had other impacts (as always seems to be the case in the M2TW engine...).
Are there any volunteers to attempt some Custom Battle testing with different values? You'll need an unmodified 2.35 EDU and Notepad++ to make the edits required. The parameters are as follows:
1) Pick a unit - preferably a line infantry unit either with javelins or without.
2) First test charges without any changes. Pick that unit and one other as the general (something without missile weapons), and one opposing unit (again without missiles). Charge the general unit into melee with the enemy unit so you can flank/rear charge with your test unit.
3) Observe, note what you see.
4) Repeat a few more times for validation of your first observations.
5) Go into the EDU entry for your unit. If it's stat is 14, set it to 40. If its 17 set it to 30. If it's 22, reduce it to 20. Repeat the above.
6) Note the differences between the two.
7) Bonus marks for anyone who can video or screenshot their tests.