Charge defense units have always had a reason because it negates the entire charge bonus and they still do have that over other weapons.įor great weapons specifically (who often also sport a pretty solid CB for infantry to begin with) the issue boiled down to the fact that bracing basically just meant letting the enemy cav get free hits in. The whole point to the bracing changes was to give the player with the infantry a reason to brace them. In this game you're more likely to see a few token spears and a lot of everything else, when it should be the other way around.
Remember that spears and the like were the most common weapon in warfare for a very long time. Or maybe just add something to make those cavalry units better at overcoming the bracing of units that don't have polearms/charge defense - or apply a debuff, something. Lances/Spears from horseback offer a decisive advantage in such scenarios. I feel like non-polearm and non-charge-defense units should have less bracing power than they do. 2K A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia.844 A Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai.