can this be used for viking Scandinavian factions?

great mod :D still works for those wondering.
i can of wish there was one for the testudo mobile xD

Can we get this to be at least 100% missile block chance? Also, will there be another update?

this mod does still work correct ?

nice mod

60% missile block chance is too low, I think.

did u have a make attacking tastudo upgrade?

Hey man, I really appreciate your efforts with this mod and I think it's a great idea. But after playing with it for a while, I think the formation has actually made my units weaker. They don't last half as long while in the formation as they would with the vanilla formation. I've played the WRE EXTENSIVELY and there's a noticable degradation in unit durability. Just some feedback in case you wanna take a look at it!

"Legio Shitmitatenses", I am dying :'DDDDD

can you make one of these for like the danes or something?

What did you change in uptade?

@Salarmax (IL) what do you mean I find this very significant buff for Roman infantry, I'm intending to ask OP to reduce melee defence to +10 and leave 50% missile block chance as vanilla, because Roman elite infantry have great armor and good melee defence already but still tetsudo doesn't give any melee bonus, a little melee defence buff will make it reallistic and viable agaisnt naked african with op 70 melee attack.

its possible make a mood that give to every foot generals the square formation? I think it would be nice to see your guards die for your general to the end, and maybe more good than took ypur general in first line in every figth. Thanks

save compatible?

romes formations weren't that great, their overall army formation was, at least in the early years, that's half the reason why hannibal chewed em up so easily, they had formations when compared to the barbarians but outside staggered formations and testudo's it was pretty straight up at first and they overwhelmed you with numbers and discipline

Testudo must be like monolit...

Man maybe you can make testudo blocked shields at 4 sides? So funny when legioners block forward and not block left, right and back side....

Guzel

How is this an improvement in comparison to the vanilla testudo stats?

http://sparotok.blogspot.bg/2013/09/who-were-thracians.html if you like thracians chek it !!!

The Fulcrum, the late Roman Testudo. http://www.legioxxirapax.com/zasoby/Rance2.pdf
It references its use in the battle of Strasbourg, in which the Romans achieved victory with very little casualties, and inflicted many amongst the Alamanni. The Testudo in this game was different than in Rome 2, it's justified to be able to handle cavalry and as well as infantry. They are also meant to be able to throw missiles in this formation.

@rinruben, it's main purpose is still to be a defensive formation. It sucks ass for being an offensive one 99% of the time, only when outnumbered and surrounded would this be a viable tactic. Most preferably you would have everyone form a wall instead of a shell so everyone is pointing towards the enemy!

@Iceman2567 I'm sure there was times the testudo had been used against infantry in specific situations but the major drawback of testudo is that because the formation is so tightly formed it hinders the soldiers movement making the army less adaptable leading to greater risk of encirclement and reduced effectiveness in close range combat. Generally speaking the romans preffered more mobile and offensive formations in dealing with infantry. Usually the Agmen formate was a more effective formation against infantry as the standard use of the scutum would offer the same level of protection from infantry as testudo would without the hit to offence.

kids who get the idea of the tetsudo being only a defensive formation against archers....

its funny how romans were famous for formations and perfessionals. yet in total war they have the worse formation and weaker legionary then regular thorax and parthian sword men.

yeah u guys should check out the movie centurion the part where attacking tetsudo is formed to push through the britanic battleline then they form a hallow square formation around there pow's and save em! pretty badass example of tetsudo used offensively

Sounds intersting, thx

Good evening, Dudes...
@Fluffy Fishy: The Roman Testudo was not only a formation against missiles, it was of course a defensive combat formation which the roman legionaires used against barbarian hordes, especially against those without heavy armor or small/non-shielded troops.
They closed the formation against enemies (superior in numbers) so that their own formation can not be outflanked or attacked from the rear. They opened for a short time to stack their Gladius into their enemy then closing formation again.
You can watch such scene in the movie (in German: "Der Adler der Neunten Legion") "The Eagle" (of the 9th Legion).
Many historical detail and facts are not correctly transfered from the developers...

In my opinion this mod seems to be quite good, perhaps it can be enlarged so that the testudo-formation gets what it deserves: being a formidable fighting formation for diciplined infantry.

Greetings

ahhhhhhhhhhh

But testudo is terrible against infantry, its a missile defence formation not a combat formation, if anything it should make infantry much worse in combat.

save game compatible right?

@Justinsane11, he means buffing the mobile testudo formation.

what the hell does that even mean?

Could you make a mobile Version of this please