The sarissa was the choice polearm of phalangites of the macedonian armies post phillip reform. The weapon was typically around 5m long and completely useless for single combat, but rather very effective in formations. It was wielded with 2 hands but to the forward facing arm a buckler was attached that could be used as some defence vs arrow fire. Now infantry are constantly complaining about having no way to deal with cav without being exposed to arrow fire, maybe we could introduce this weapon into the game.
The buckler would be the main issue, off the top of my head I can come up with 2 methods of implementation :
- treat the sarissa as a 1h polearm, only code it to be only usable with certain smaller shields i.e. the buckler.
- add a buckler to the 2h animation on the appropriate arm, then do a lot of coding nonsense I dont understand (and may not be possible) to have the buckler defend from arrows to some degree.
The sarissa would be unsheathable and in 1 on 1 melee would be completely useless at blocking.
I also realise this would be probably a lot of coding that is either problematic or just time consuming so just bouncing this idea off the wall ;)
