Quote from: Seppyno on May 06, 2018, 01:40:03 AM
Yeah, I've tried using the Z key to make the knights switch to sidearms after finding out about it. But it doesn't seem to do anything, either in melee or out of it. Use blunt weapons works, I've seen riders put away their swords and swap to fists, doff shields works. But telling my troops to use sidearms doesn't.
It's frustrating, I want these higher tier troops to be useful, because they clearly can be, their lances are effective in initial charge; however once they're in melee they feel terrible to use because they die in droves, desperately clinging to lances when they should be using swords.
The last iteration of the vales knights, knights of the gate, uses swords again, the only problem is that they need a lot of experience. My word is, try to keep a good balance between riders and knights, having them in 2 different groups, one for initial battle and riders for melee time, and every time a knight upgrades to knight of the gate, upgrade one rider to knight.