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Total Rebalance II- Ultimate Campaign Bundle (Unit abilities reworked)

Total Rebalance II- Ultimate Campaign Bundle has to be enabled for this mod to take effect, please download it here: (placing the Unit Abilities mod on top of the Bundle mod)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004910214
Do not use any other Total Rebalance versions such as the Complete Edition.

Note: Incompatible with Unit Variation DLC!


A submod for Total Rebalance II - Ultimate Campaign Bundle that drastically changes the abilities of units.
Made for players who are experienced with the Total Rebalance II series and are looking for more challenging battles.

This mod changes the different abilities that units have, such as warcry / shield wall / phalanx.
Most spearman units (except higher tier and those with pikes) can no longer form a phalanx, but either have the warcry or shield wall ability.
Note that these non-phalanx spearman also lost their secondary sword, so they will fight with spears instead.
(which does improve their usefulness against cavalry)
To compensate for these changes some unit statistics have been changed (non phalanx spearman now also have slightly higher attack but phalanx pikemen have a bit lower attack)

These changes should make it more challenging some more emphasis is placed on using spearman defensively, swordsmen offensively and improve lower tier cavalry by providing them with the warcry ability.
The overpowered phalanx ability in vanilla, that was given to many spearman units, now can no longer be abused, but note that the shield wall still provides for a large defense bonus.

The abilities that are distributed to units are as follows:

Skirmishers - Warcry
(some) Elite Skirmishers - Shield Wall

Low Tier Spearman - Warcry
Mid Tier Spearman - Warcry / Shield Wall
High Tier Spearman - Shield Wall / Phalanx

Swordsmen - Warcry
Elite Swordsmen - Warcry / Shield Wall (mostly barbarian Warcry)
Roman Swordsmen - Shield Wall / Testudo (legions Testudo)

(Non Skirmishing) Light Cavalry - Warcry (except Roman Equites)
Medium / High Tier Cavalry (including Generals) - Wedge Formation

Note:
Some balance changes may still be applied if needed