SP Antiquity Persian Expansion: a New mod for Mount&Blade (Updated 21 July)

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

Generally, they didn't use it as well as those who carried it as their main weapon.

How are you for sources, ArabArcher?  I've got some Osprey books lying about; one on the Ancient Greeks and one on the Spartans in particular. 

    Well, I believe the Spartans could out-fight any Persian with swords...take a look at Thermopylae. They certainly didn't do all their fighting with spears. Then again, I am not sure if it would apply to other Greeks or the Macedonians. 

 

[Roka]

realistically when can we expect this mod to be realesed sorry if this has been posted before but i can't be ersed looking through all the posts

 

[ArabArcher35]

I'm having problems with the system, so I don't know if I'll be able to complete it as it is.

 

[miclee1]

What kind of problems?

 

[ArabArcher35]

Problems you and I couldn't fix, Miclee, remember?

 

[miclee1]

Not really... I'm trying to think... Can you remind me of what they are?

 

[ArabArcher35]

The Materials

 

[miclee1]

Oh, you mean where it goes sort of weird, like my horse texture did until I fixed it?

 

[ArabArcher35]

No, where it does absolutely nothing. Remember? We couldn't add the items to the game.

 

[miclee1]

I can't remember! What thread was this in?

 

[jeansberg]

What kind of material problems are you having?

 

[laundreu]

bumpin dis

 

[Don Jacobo]

Please take note and give the hoplites about 1m spears i know that 2-8 meter Pike/spears were more common then, but it would not fit the Mount and Blade AI

 

[An4Sh]

I thought the macdeonians used long pikes while the greek hoplites used normal spears and so did the persians...

 

[Merlkir]

1 m long spears? eh? that would be just...stupid.

 

[Chilly5]

i think greek spears were slightly longer than the normal spear, but not much.

 

[An4Sh]

So it was the Macedonians who used the pikes while the greek hoplites used a slightly modified spear!

 

[Merlkir]

don't know anything about modified hoplite spears...for...what is a standard spear?
Macedonian phalangites used sarissas which were pretty long, yes.

 

[laundreu]

All this talk of sarissas and such are far in advance of the time period ArabArcher is doin' kids

Spears are roughly 6-8 feet long and and may be pretty cleverly shaped so that the balance point is about 2-3 feet short of the butt of the spear.  The Persians had a slightly smaller (5-6 feet spear) with a golden or bronze apple-shapped butt. 

Macedonians are currently more like the hick cousins of Greece (which is also pretty hick-like at the moment so think of it like West Virginia (Macedonia) and Virginia (Greece)), you can blame that on the Illyrians keeping the Macedonian man down

 

[ArabArcher35]

So, what, are the Illyrians from North Carolina? So, I'd have to assume Thracians are from Georgia. Or something. Florida, maybe? Persians are Cuban