I actually appreciated shield bush more and more.

Due to the fact that AI never moves if it is adjacent to an enemy, I can shield bush enemies to force them into attacking troops of my choice. If you have more than one shield wielding troop, you can bash enemies into ZoC of your tank. Actually, that the only way you can force enemy to attack your hero in a first place, since they tend always to go after your weak units, leaving heroes to the end of fight.

It also helps to put enemy into being swarmed or cleave. In general, it is a very useful skill and tactically offers lots of interesting options. 

A really awesome play is to web a stack, swarm them, and then bash them back with a shield bash or a tamed Hergon.  You get to repeat two or three times or until dead if the initiatives work out right.

Yeah.. or a "Bash" like the name says  

I just want to 'stun'/daze/delay the mob while keeping them in reach. 

Since stun is at the end of the defenders tree for some reason, it might be considered overly powerful.  If that's the case, maybe a 2-3 turn reduction in initiative, something significant though like -5 or -10.

Knockback is of limited use if they can just retake that spot next turn.

Shield bash is great for 'moving' opponents troops into lines so spear troops can shaft them, two at a time.

+1 bash should definitely add "dazed" condition, but with a chance for the victim to resist the daze where the resist chance is initiative based.  Basically, the quicker units are better able to avoid getting hit hard enough to be dazed.

As parrotmath has said in another thread, modding a beta is not really recommended because it alters the game experience and potential constructive feedback the devs are looking for.  I would have modded vanilla FE, but shield bash doesn't exist there.  

So, test this mod if you wish, but keep in mind it is not base game and make comments accordingly.

I still would like to split shield bash into "real bash" and "knock back". Of which one would reduce initiative/dmg other - kicks 1 tile off. And obviously i would give knock to non shield units (most likly spearmens, because impale is not often to get a formation so it could be alternative skill to use) and bash to shield units. Also i would suggest to desing shield skills so they would keep its users in defence stance. As long if i equiped them with shiled then i want to get that shield defence bonuss from defending.

Thanks, parrottmath, +1 karma.  So do I really need to copy the entire CoreSpells.xml? or can I create a file called OverrideSpells.xml with just the spells I've modded?

Also, apparently my guess about the "chance to not be dazed" was wrong.  I looked at the context of where I copied Daze from and SD had Value=100.  Other Value=100 items there were % chances.  In my play testing I think I saw exactly once where a unit was not dazed, although now I'm not so sure.

I have seen you post that much of what you learned has been from trial and error.  Have you learned what would make % chance in this instance?

There is always apply random modifier, but you are doing two modifiers. I think that would be sufficient with shield bash anyway. Either the person moves back 1 tile or is dazed for 1 turn. Depends on how the other unit took the hit (but then you might do damage some of the time). Not sure how to use that calculation in general, never tried anything.