Please keep them up to date.

Or strap a buckler shield to their upper left arm so they don't actually use it like a spearman would and have the animations and give them a 20% block chance for arrows.

A few suggestions please.
1. Make the pikemen ALL have leg armor and helmets. The visuals don't reflect the actual armor count.
2. A melee defense buff when braced and not actively attacking to encourage defensive pike tactics. The animations don't exist but the medieval 2 pike wall was fantastic and that stat buff would reflect the bonuses if they were actually using an immobile pike wall. Increased unit mass and/or the number of men per unit with the upkeep cost and recruitment going up to balance it out. Historically pike formations were always huge with lots and lots of men in each unit.
3. A lower teir (with matching visuals and stats) pike unit (militia?) with even more men in it. Like 120 and 160 respectively when using max unit sizes. They'd still have charge reflection and the melee standing still buff if added.

Hihi, reporting again, baltazar and elspeth cant recruit the units, although volkmar and markus, and, more importantly, npc factions can, idk, maybe you decided to let those two out? cheers anyway, Best mod Ever

No clue.

There are spear and pike mods for dwarfs right

You didn't answer my other two questions by the way. I thought of a fourth one, sorry. Are you considering expanding this for other factions/cultures or creating a separate mod for that if you intend to?

Armored kossar pikemen(no pistols) would be incredibly useful for all the big monsters fielded by chaos and the skaven.
I don't know if it would be culturally acceptable but it'd be nice to have for the dwarves if the animations exist or could be created.
More pike units period would be nice, especially if they have actual unit formations they can use.

ooof, that's a bit of an ask, but if you use RPFM you can edit this mod and switch out the head code lines with heads you prefer

Question: can you remove the hats and give them all helmets? I'm going to try this anyway but the high armor clashes with their actual look.

Second question: is it possible to give them small buckler shields without changing the animations? Think of the Macedonian pike phalanxes with their hands free shields.

Third question (sorry!): Can we get more armored swordsmen and/or spearmen with tower shields and higher ranged resistance added to this mod?

Hey man, sorry to bother you again, seems like CA broke the unit recruitment again, as only Karl can recruit them

Awesome units, they are a gamechanger for pike and shot formations. Incredible game cards btw.

thank you for the update to baltazar! time to stop playing karl 100 times and play baltazar another 100, cheers

I will check

tnx, really, and i'm so sorry to bother you, i just noticed there's a missing? maybe buff on the red skill line "strenght in hardship" i kinda feel like it should buff pikemen as well? anyways, tnx again, i really love to play with your pikemen (and handgunners)

Ill fix

thank you soooo much, and sorry to bother you, but the units still don't show in gelts campaign, if it can't be done that's ok anyway, thanks again for the mod

fixed

Ok i fix

Nooooooo, man, sorry to pester you but the new update broke the mod, it was literally my favourite mod ever

Ill check

best mod ever! virgin spearman vs chad pikeman, only issue is they dont show in gelt's campaign, probably because he starts without a settlement

please update the mod, they don't appear in the new update anymore

Please you to update it

Graphical issue. Please update this awesome mod!

Awesome unit cards btw :)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789914172
^ my bad dont know how formatting works lol

i cant find the mod i mentioned to early cause i personally didnt install it however i do know of another talented modder who also does base game like Unit cards
https://steamhost.cn

@Dr.Savage
Please do link it through, Id love tobonow how that works

some other mods have done wonders with the icons using AI to make it look like base game material.maybe you could give that a try

@Captain Caveman thanks!

BTW - really love this mod...

@Nothing. Nw's - just letting you know :)

@Captain Caveman
that will always happen with mods, but they work fine
the game thinks its outdated if I don't reupdate the mod, its totally meaningless just a checkmark

update pls - shows as out of date

aw sad to hear that, well thanks for the reply.

@DarkStar
I often have people who complain about stuff like that, as there's always one thing people don't want in their collection, so making a compilation isn't maybe the best idea

Thanks for the mod!

Would you consider making a compilation with all your units please?

@Chuck Borris
updated now with extra long spears, thanks for the tip!

Unit cards look great from my point of view. I am trying to add Morion helmet to your mod right now :D

@Chuck Borris
Absolutely!
Ill see if I can improve the unit cards as well

Great mod! Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! Pike and shot tactics :)
Regarding the longer spear - there is a good fir model in Chaos Marauders spearmen unit. One of the spear models they use is looking like a normal spear without any additional spikes or skulls. Also you may consider adding this spear additional melee range in weapon stats table so soldiers could reach longer with pikes.

unit icons have now been improved

@Ash Aod, correct, however I'll need to find a longer spear model ingame

pikes are just spears,you could make them longer

I appologise about the icons, I will improve them this weekend