Since people don't exactly surrender in Kenshi, mounted combat is not a thing. and weapon penetration is abstract at best, any discussion of a spear's use IRL is kind of moot.

Actually from a gameplay perspective, a change to make spears being good at defense/so-so at attack may be a good idea since daggers already cover the good attack/bad defense slot. It's also a bit more intuitive, since reach only doesn't really give you any defensive advantage in Kenshi, and typically the two are associated.

Wouldn't be opposed to it if they dev wanted to go that way. I just don't think making spears better at everything isn't actually very realistic and not at all fun. If so this would be the "Spears are OP" mod. A game where there's no reason to use the majority of other weapons would be boring.

@Snork
Lances are a mounted weapon? Most knights were on horses but they wouldn't run around with a lance while they were off it lol. That's not even a true if you switched out lance with spear.

Polearms are only really good defensively if you can keep someone away from you, much harder to do without a line of other spearmen. If someone with a sword is wearing good enough armor to just run at you and get inside your spear's range, there's not much you can do to stop them from swiftly murdering you (except maybe drawing a weapon that's not a spear). Spears were extremely common and popular in the middle ages, but there were definitely people using swords them, even if they had an intact polearm.

In a game like Kenshi with relatively small scale combat, I think it makes sense for spears to have a defensive weakness, with swords being versatile like they are in real life. Polearms meanwhile still maintain their reach as a stat which happens to be their advantage in real life.

in real life spears are better at attacking and defending than a shortsword is.

That's why medieval knights only used their swords once they broke their lance.

i am just not sure how to keep up with the changes the main dev team is making, i think ill have to wait a little and let the game sizzle a bit

@uugh maybe add bonus to steath ko/kill

Im enjoying the ninja weapons and only have issue with the dagger. i feel that should have some extra stats to indoor and stealth play. i am hoping this mod is still active because it instantly became a must have for me and im hoping for more weapon alterations *pole arms and heavy*

new types of ninja blades in most shops ,,

Yes thats why i added the spheroth katana,, its amazing try it

Tbh since there are no shields in this game (for whatever reason. I mean it's not like the samurai from ancient Japan didn't have them lol) i tend to give my front defensive guys heavier thicker blades like horse choppers and holed sabres, while my second row often uses longer blades like dai-katanas (are they even in the game lol?) or naginatas for actual attack or defense agains t flanking attacks. Too bad the naginatas are too long to be used in conjunction with crossbow wielders (which i use your other mod for) or i would have used them as backup weapons. But i guess the katana or a club is good enough.

I dunno man, it's hard to think about what'd improve weapons for the player without unbalancing the AI.

GUYS I NEED FEEDBACK, thats the only way to improve this mod.