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Deployable Obstacles (Including Stakes)

This mod gives peasant bowmen a special ability allowing them to place sharpened stakes down on the ground.

Under-the-hood it's a summoning ability. The stake "units" that are created are unable to move or turn, crumble like constructs when at low leadership, do no damage except against cavalry and large units, and have very little hp. The AI recognizes the unit as a spear unit, so it (generally) avoids charging their cavalry head-on into them.

I've also included an obstacle available to the Dwarfs. The King's Wall was a tabletop model used in the 7th edition Battle for Skull Pass scenerio. It's much more tanky than the deployable stakes, but it doesn't do any damage. I've given it to the ghost King Lunn who was the original owner. This means it's only available to Clan Angrund in campaign.

The (rather simple) models are by ChaosRobie.
The textures are by crisord.

Special thanks to Tankbuster for coming up with this concept.

You're free to use this in another mod.

There's a whole bunch of parameters to tweak, so please give feedback.
I could also do other types of "deployables" like walls or barricades.