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A Farewell to Sarissa! (Removing archaisms away)

NB: updated to the latest patch. added 2 units from DLC

Five-meter sarissas in the hands of the V century`s barbarians are an obvious anachronism.

Developers have once again sacrificed historicity for the sake of gameplay.

Meanwhile, in the history of the Germans there were spearmen, who performed the same role as the pseudo-sarrissophors in «Attila». Caesar has described them as «long spears».

So I have made pseudo-Sarissophors in «Attila» close to the historical patterns.

Now the elite «pikemen» have long spears which are the half shorter than sarissas (gothic elite pikemen and east roman`s menaulatoi).

All other barbarians were armed with a mixture of long and short infantry spears. A variety of weapons simulates that these fighters are militias.

Change of the weapons affects only the appearance of the units: it appears to be less absurd. Functionality has not suffered: I have only changed the model.

There is no bug in the mod when enemies die far from the line of shorter pikes. It was an R2TW (and earlier) bug and CA developers have fixed it in the new game.

Yet it may seem that there is such a bug, it is an illusion - because of the fact that death from «Sarissas» happening «in one touch». Also, separate spearmen can advance, pushing the enemy, so the corpses can lie far from the line of contact.

PS: This fix is fully compatible with all mods, except some reskins, which affects «pike» units.

PPS. My mod were published in Russian TW community in the march, three weeks after the release of the game.
http://imtw.ru/topic/37386-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%89%d0%b0%d0%b9-%d1%81%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b0/
It also included in some mods, such as Dark Combat Attila ...and some reskins.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=434201961
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?684465-Dark-Combat-Attila
http://imtw.ru/topic/37143-dark-combat-attila


My other mods on STEAM:

spear- and shield walls are now mobile!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455507320

Foederati armies
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455516409