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Vanilla combat revisited

Now compatible with Empire divided campaign and patch.

This is a combat mod intended not to add amazing new mechanics or rework how combat works, this mod is rather intended to fine-tune and change the combat to make it slower and hopefully more tactical.

As such, the changes include the following:

Artillery, specifically those shooting rocks/flaming shots/explosive shots, have had their accuracy heavily nerfed, making them poor troop-killing tools. In fact, you might need a few more if you're to breach city walls with them due to their inacuraccy, 3-4 ballistae/onagers will do the trick. (beware barbarian towers though, I found scorpions with flamming shot better against them.)

Weapon damages nerfed: All weapons have had their damages nerfed substantially, making for longer combat since it'll take longer to hack away at the enemy's health. An elite unit will still butcher a basic levy unit, but when troops are more equally matched, kills will be fairly slow. This will in turn allow for more manouvering on the battlefield and make combat have the potential of taking a good while.

Missile nerf: Missile weapons have had their damages mostly transfered from armour piercing damage to regular damage, making them less deadly. Add in an increased missile block chance for shields and missiles are often more of a harrassment tool than a killing one...at least from the front, if you get even basic javelinmen into the enemy's flank, bodies will start to litter the field in droves.

Less abilities: Units have in general less abilities to use, though there are more avaible formations to them, especially for infantry.

Pikes, a true wall: Pikes have had both a boost and a nerf. Their melee damages has been nerfed, but the bonuses from their formation makes them far more able to resist missiles, and any unit attacking from the front will find themselves almost always unable to truly engaged, the pikes will push them back no matter how elite the troops are, and slowly begin to inflict casualties.

March in one pace: All units, be they light cavalry or heavy infantry, all walk at the same pace. This means that an army marching forward will all keep in formation without a need to constantly order some troops to stop and whatnot. (it also makes troops marching in a column during ambushes STAY in that column, no cavalry in the back overtaking the troops at the front anymore.)

Combat-space: Spacing has been changed for many infantry units. While pikemen are closely pressed together, melee infantry are more spread out, giving each soldiers more room to manouvre and fight in. This makes less of a mess in combat as troops are not always pressing into one another, at least not as much as before. Essentially, it reduces clipping between soldiers by a large margin on the march and a slight margin when in combat.

Hope you enjoy this humble mod, and don't hesitate to give feedback. (like shields needing better missile-block chance or if you think pikes are too powerful..)
Save compatible.
Unit mods work with this mod, as long as they don't add new weapons to the unit, in which case they'll likely become OP.