DeI – Alternative Hoplite Phalanx/Shieldwall

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Compatible with DeI 1.3.5

Current implementation of hoplite phalanx and barbarian shield wall has it pros and cons.

For people who are more into cons side, we have prepared this offical submod.

It removes pike phalanx based behaviour for these formations, fixing issues like AI units positioning sideways/walking through player formation or spinning awkwardly.

Instead hoplite and shieldwall using units now have passive formation and old Formed Attack added, which forces them to stay in formation, without above bugs (although sometimes it makes AI deploy own units in thin column).

Additionally all animations were swapped to only use spears in combat.

Their bonuses are:

a) Hoplite Phalanx:
+10% to missile block chance
Frontal armour armour increased, back and rear armour decreased = this means that frontally they are tougher but recieve higher damage when attacked from the rear
They are frontally harder to hit but recieve more strikes when attacked from the rear
+20% to Armour Piercing damage
+10% to Regular damage
+1 melee attack
+2 bonus vs cavalry
+3 bonus vs elephants

b) Shieldwall:
+10% to missile block chance
Frontal armour armour increased, back and rear armour decreased = this means that frontally they are tougher but recieve higher damage when attacked from the rear
They are frontally harder to hit but recieve more strikes when attacked from the rear
+2 melee attack
+20% to base Weapon damage
+10% to Armour Piercing damage
+2 bonus vs cavalry
+2 bonus vs elephants

Main differences are that hoplite phalanx is more defense oriented while shieldwall is a bit more offensive. Phalanx also is tougher frontally but suffers more from flanking while Shieldwall is not as tough frontally but does not suffer as much when flanked.

Check out Alternative Pike Phalanx with similar soluton for Macedonian Phalanx:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1856834350

Compatible with:
-Divide et Impera
-Divide et Impera save games
-Alternative Pike Phalanx

Not compatible with:
-Other mods
-Divide et Impera: Alexander

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