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Quick question about a niche for spears, is it possible to add to spear holding units a counterattack and damage multiplier for units specifically on mounts using the improved unit tags that Heavenfall created?
Ok I'm just shooting out an idea here since no one else has serenaded so far.
I do not have much experience with the <calculate> tag but the extra damage might work with a on meleespell that sets the passed tp the defensible damage tag as unit damage + bonus * target_unit_is_mounted
as well you might get lucky by introducing a unit stat cavalry_counter and then on defend use a prereq on the calculated value of Unit_cavalry_counter * target_is_mounted and setting Unit_cavalry_counter = 0 for 1 round
this is just a rough idea I had while your question was lingering in the corner of my mind. If you succeed in implementing it please come back and tell us about your struggle. I would like to learn from it 
Using the unitstat background lib you can make un-mounted spearmen deal extra damage against mounted units. I don't know about counter-attack against them, you'll have to try that one out.
I wouldn't recommend Sargittar's solution, instead just use
<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_UnitStat_Attack_Pierce</StrVal>
<StrVal2>UnitStat_BG_IsUsingMount</StrVal2>
<Multiplier>1.3</Multiplier>
<vsHigher>1</vsHigher>
</GameModifier>
for a 30% boost to pierce damage for example
What about a damage revenge for attacking a spear holder with a mounted unit?
So will only do damage to someone that attacks it only if its a mounted unit. This might be more what I am going for, though I do like the idea of having them do naturally more damage to mounted units I want a revenge damage for mounted units and originally only thought of counterattack but maybe a damage shield effect only for mounted the tag.
Since we're speaking about spears, is there anything that is resistant to spears? Be it a monster or armor type, anything. Are spears bad vs anything?
You'll have to test the counter-attack thing. It could work, or maybe it doesn't. Don't know - counter-attack is handled a bit differently because it needs to save how many has been done each round.
I will code this in and try it out next week after break has kicked in, have one more paper to write for this semester.
Alright I decided to mess around with this a bit tonight and for some reason its not working the way I wanted to.
I started with a base off of the cloak of thorns spell as its what I actually wanted not what I originally stated, sorry for the horrible clarity.
Does this look right?
The idea is that Pike is deadly against mounted units for revenge damage. So if you attack pike with a mounted unit you might kill it but you are almost certainly going to die whereas infantry can engage them without fear other than their long sharp pointy things.
Not vsunittype, vsHigher. It's a dynamic unitstat, not <creaturetype>
Also note that it won't function if the pike unit is mounted.
That is actually as intended as lances didn't really do much more damage to other mounted as they did to everyone else. I t was the pike in the ground that did the extreme damage to mounted when they charged into them.
So the final one would look like this?
If the damagereflect and the value are right, I don't know that unitstat.
i have mod in the works that add alot of "new" weapons (copy and pasted hero weapons with different stats) .. i have cavalry only weapons like lances and cavalry sword that do bonus vs unmounted ... and i have spear do less armor ignore (like 34%), instead they have like +4 atk vs mounted and like +10 crit vs mounted, theres different amounts as u advance techs... and i have special spears unlocked at war colleges that let the unit do ability : spear wall ... the unit takes defense stance (like skips turn) but gains +3 counterattacks and +3 atk vs mounted for 3 turns (the weapon already has like +4 atk vs mounted, +16 crit vs mounted, +7 accuracy vs mounted (12 base damage) ) ... but thats just at war colleges, weapons of war will have higher stats, and new tech "college drills" will have another...
there will be some special anti cavalry weapons like that, because i added a tech after war colleges "cavalry tactics" which adds warhorse that give different abilitys ... harrassers warhorse has abilitys that make enemy skip a turn, or have less move range, and like berserker warhorse berserks, and defender warhorse can make ur army flee, but have the cav unit lose health... and tactical warhorse has ability to attack all adjacent enemies, for like 70% normal damage...
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and much more.... coming soon heheh
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