Did you try them in accurate battle and see how effective them are? I'm currently possessed on the how and why the ancient formations worked in battle. I try the Round formation in campaign vs AI and win,like this https://s2.ax1x.com/2019/06/22/Z94tTf.jpg https://s2.ax1x.com/2019/06/22/Z94lSH.jpg h...

All formations from《武经总要》，a offical military book published in North Song dynasty,so they were real battle formation chinese army used. 1、Square.方阵.The basic formation,all other formation changed from Square. https://s2.ax1x.com/2019/06/21/ZSfr4J.jpg https://s2.ax1x.com/2019/06/21/ZSf4ED.png 2、Round...

like this

In other hand,Cavalry have higher combat value in impact phase than melee.In some time keep charge and retreat may have better result than keep in melee.

In this mod ,I totally remake army list and unit base on history account as accurate as possible;For now,there are only three army from different faction.I may add more army list and units in future. 1 Ming Northern Army,1590-1640 Sources: 《九边图说》,Offical military manul of Ming Dynasty, written in 15...

The army lists are scaled according the size of the battle. The raw army list numbers apply to a 2000 point battle. Smaller battles will scale down the minima and maxima proportionally. The maximum number of units in the raw army list should add up to at least 3000 points total, in order to get a r...

thanks a lot！ Is that any way to add new weapon？ Yes you could add a new weapon, but you would have to: 1) Add a new column to the Squads file. 2) Script the effects of the weapon in various places - depending on whether it is a close combat or a shooting weapon. 3) Add the necessary strings to dis...

I made a new army list，but find on custom battle that units didn't reach their minimum quantity. For example,I set there should at least 4 unitA on the list,but in game there is only one unitA.I think it because unit cost is too high so that there is not enough army point to maintain unit’s minimum ...

thanks a lot！
Is that any way to add new weapon？

How to edit weapon?like change the power of bow.
Is there any guide talk about it?

In fact the original “eastern”Art of War stll can help.Althougt most of this book talk about strategy or operation，there are also some tactic tips and military principles in last chapters like 8-11. The version which has Caocao‘s annotation is better，but if you can’t find it（I'm not sure if this ver...

Combina them with Infantry then Charge Enemy from front:their poor movement make them can't maneuver like other cavalry

Try to make a single battle on silkroad mod,but can't save the map and showed "Failed to save map file, please ensure the path is writable and try again".

zakblood_slith wrote:steam or site version?

if site version run and admin and try again, if steam or first suggestion didn't work, check your AV log files and see if that has stopped anything game related

steam version

zakblood_slith wrote:delete any older versions of the same file, or partly downloaded files and retry

Didn't work.Still showed "There was an error downloading the file :0"

Can't download Community Content

I have also found this game to be a much better way of enjoying ancient battles than my favorite board game series, the Great Battles of History from GMT. Mo need to spend an hour or more setting up a hundred or more tiny pieces while trying to find tiny numbers on a map. No more struggling with ma...

And here are some special resource：explain Qin' army from Terracotta Warriors，and a Military book which was written in 356BC，called "司马法Sima Fa"(mean"Codex of General").

jomni wrote:A small request for guys with this type of battle info. Please create Epic Battles for Silk Road.
Or you can share your resource here even if it’s in Chinese.

Some other resource(All in chinese) about this period Chinese army

Another Paper(also chinese),called "On the Difference Between the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty in Military System",explain Western Zhou Dynasty and Qin's military system.