If'n you don't find pikemen entertaining I'll wager you ain't played LTC as the Scots. Hoo, Noble Pikemen will even stick it to the Varangian Guard. And defending a city entrance with 3 pike militia or highland pikemen (even with no armor at all) is better than 9 out of 10 superbowls even if you are drunk when you watch (the superbowl not M2TW - you want to be sober so you can enjoy). I love it when the AI crams every unit it can into the gate and the gatekeepers repeatedly flush the hot oil toilets on them - ugh, what a smell. What can surpass the pleasure of watching the stupid AI general bypass your dismounted knights to plunge into a unit of pikes (with secondary weapon removed). It is even twice the fun if it is a 10 star Mongol/Timurid general. (I get excited just talking about it. I can't wait to finish my boring HRE campaign so I can play one as the Scots again.)

Nobody voted for jinetes or light cavalry? They are so powerful and fun, if used correctly - in field battles - not much help in assaults on walls and fighting in narrow streets.

Musketeers and the like are for the ignoble. How unchivalrous to take a nose picking villain, give him a gun with 10 minutes of training, and allow him to kill a nobleman who has spent a lifetime training to protect the widow and orphan and bring justice and equity to the land. Bah! There should have been a law in Europe like there was in Japan. No handguns allowed.