Battle lines are messy

[welshy91]

Hey just a quick observation, on the battlefield when units collide and begin combat the units continue to push into each other and mess into a big blob.
Usually in other mods and vanilla they begin combat and maintain their cohesion but it seems in this mod it turn into a mess.
Is this intentional or a bug? Does anyone else notice it?
I was wondering what it could be that causes it, whether battle AI or something to do with the animation files. I would like to fix it and get the nice battle lines back if possible.

Any way love the mod and era, just hope to get the battles sorted out.

[welshy91]

Well if anyone was interested I have figured out my dilemma. It was the animation file that was causing the issue. I simply replaced it with another mods animation file and now the units retain their line and the shield wall doesn't get messy and turn into a death mosh pit.
What I noticed was that for most mods as I have a few in my list in the skeleton file under MTW2_Spear in TGC it's standalone whilst in most other mods the parent for MTW2_Spear was MTW2_Footman_Abstract
Usually messing around with the battle_models.modeldb and it's animations causes crashes but thus far it seems to work.

[AnthoniusII]

We actually want messy battles. WHEN REAL ARMIES colide their do not keep their lines for long and the battle becomes a series of personal duels.
They may start like this:


But in 99% they will end up like this:

Or like this

Soldies were not robots to hold their position no matter what.