pike braceing

[gazda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klw_ydLOvFY&feature=related

what do you think

it could be very usefull against cav in terms of blocking passages and flanks, and it wouldnt mess with the game balance,

[Digglez]

would certainly make for more interesting team & tactics play

what happens if you walk into them? can teammates walk thru the shaft away from the point/tip without taking dmg?

[gazda]

honestly dont know, but i think that part would be for our item balancers to decide

[Joelturuz]

Would be neat even though it probably wouldn't see much use save for Strategus.

[gazda]

well if our beloved dev team could waste time and space for extremely useless voice chat, i think this would be worth to implement

[Armbrust_Schtze]

hm...the animation is very nice but i think in battle it will be completly unuseful as u will get shot way too easy by snipers if u cant move

[gazda]

yes definitly, but this would be much more usfuell in formations in strategus for guarding spawns from cav etc, rather then battle servers

[Digglez]

hm...the animation is very nice but i think in battle it will be completly unuseful as u will get shot way too easy by snipers if u cant move

not when you do it in a chokepoint and have a board/huscarl shielder infront of you and 2h guy beside you

[Jarlek]

not when you do it in a chokepoint and have a board/huscarl shielder infront of you and 2h guy beside you

I also don't seee how that is a bad thing, considering that a pikewalls worst enemy is incoming arrows. They SHOULD be easy targets from the archer if they are in the defensive.

Also YES introduce this. I WANTS ME PIKES BRACEDS!!

[Jacko]

Damn that's a nice animation!

Found another vid:

http://www.wegame.com/watch/mb-warband-papas-spear-bracing-animations/

[Glyph]

awsome idea, though if you have a pike, wouldn't the point be 3m high?

[gazda]

awsome idea, though if you have a pike, wouldn't the point be 3m high?

sounds good to me

[Glyph]

sounds good to me

but i mean, would it hit the lower incoming enemies?

[Phalanx300]

I'm all for it! And as it has been said it wouldn't disrupt balance that much as you can't move in that position.

Only thing to figure out is how it should work. Maybe make it so you can't walk past the spear point? And it stops and damages horses?

And for people wondering whether its "accurate", it is:

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[Glyph]

you could make a pikewall with a shieldwall infront of it, than when the cav charges the shieldwall they pull back behind the pikes and bam!