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Definitive Edition

CA changed Chariots Attack mode, they are just bumper car, do only collision damage. These are hard-coded, I can't change it. In the pre-alpha-version, Chariot does a attack resolution(using weapon damage, melee attack, target melee defence) to one entity while collides many which is the similar to elephants, while scythed chariots does this not only during charging but also while in move instruction, which cost 300 price in game.

The pikemen front strenghth dabation is a long history, which we need to understand why polearms are useful in the ancient battle enviroment or fencer style duel but not helpful in WW1, WW2 or modern melee battle enviroment, see my discussion Attila mod "Modern Military Theory Opinion on Ancient Warfare: The Battle Overhaul version 0.5" to get full information.

In D.Sim & J.Kaminski' book 《Roman imperial armour》Page 95 shows scale and segmented armour are better than mail and musculata. However, historically, the thickness of amour is adjustable, so they always offer enough or the same protection(this is true, the greeks replace 1mm bronze armour to 10mm linothorax amour but the later is lighter, and they approximately provide the same protection agains arrows in the modern experiment) in a expect battle, so the density of materials and their organization defined which we called armour value in the game, in this sense, I think iron plate armour, mail armour, segmented armour, scale armour should have the same armour value as their are the same in the pre-alpha version game.

Should the shock cavalry have extra bonus for they are not carry a shield? I think the answer is no. Xyston is one handed weapon, Kontos is two handed weapon, the fomer is flexible, their effectiveness are nearly the same, and after macedonians met celts some of their cavalry carry shields later. So the shock cavalry should not be regared as two handed weapon units for seeking heavy blow to enemy then do not carry a shield.

In the pre-alpha version, slingers and javelinmen are extremely weak than bowmen, there stats are based on shogun2 and empire totalwar, however that's true, historically, Balearic slingers indeed not used large stones("Lead shot vary in weight between 20 and 30g, though there are isolated examples both above and below these weights. The maximum weight in use in the Near East was 185g. If Diodorus is to be believed, the famous Balearic slingers used stones weighing on mina (350g). As Korfman pointed out in his article on the sling, such a stone would be about 6.3cm in diameter - only slightly smaller than a tennis ball."), slingers and javelinmen are engaged in the a less intense battle, for javelinmen always take 3 spears, only 2 for thrown, so the slingers do not carry too much stones are also reasonable

In the pre-alpha version, pikemen enable the pike wall formation and gain "charge reflector" while lose "25 points charge bonus", this is hard coded, so I let the pikemen always have charge reflector by setting their weapon type as long pike.

Ranks minimum system are wrecked in 2.4 version unlike the 1.0 version and shogun2 totalwar

Elephants are hard coded, I cannot delete their:1) "mighty knock back"(which give extra damage for the knock off animation", 2)parthian shot, 3) moving shot, 4)chariot moving collision damage. The empire totalwar version elephants are fine.

CA mistaked some celtic chariot units as scythed chariots...and there many other mistakes in the db

The mod called Definitive Edition because it does not use any of my "tweak", I just convert the current data into the raw data. If you like "the mod of mine", see my Attila total war mod called "Modern Military Theory Opinion on Ancient Warfare: The Battle Overhaul version 0.5"