NCO armament?

[Sheogorath]

I'm given to understand that many nations, up until the Napoleonic wars, armed their NCO's with halberds or other polearms, more as a means of beating men into line than with any kind of killing intent, but will we be seeing that in the game?
Thus far it looks like unit commanders are armed with swords, which I suppose might reflect them ditching their unwieldy and heavy polearms or something a bit more practical, but it'd still be a nice touch.

[Mailman653]

Maybe early units still carry them.

[Nelson]

Polearms made an NCO or an officer easier for his men to spot. They also alleviated the need to tend to a firelock while still arming him for melee with something having at least a bayonet’s reach.

His job was running his platoon not loading and firing. I hope we see polearms in the game too.

[Marius Dynamite]

Out of interest, at what point did it become unacceptable to aim for an officer in the field, or is that a myth?

[therifleman]

I would assume pole arms or a spear of some sort of some sort. Or possibly a pistol?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I thought I saw halberds for NCO's in a screenshot or maybe that ground battles trailer.

[rajpoot]

Out of interest, at what point did it become unacceptable to aim for an officer in the field, or is that a myth?

I never understood that bit either, how can it be wrong to kill an enemy if killing him helps put the rest of the unit in a state of confusion.........it ought to be the very first thing any man does.

[PBI]

Ah, because he is a gentleman, and killing another gentleman would be murder.

By contrast, killing the peasants he leads is sport.

[O'ETAIPOS]

Out of interest, at what point did it become unacceptable to aim for an officer in the field, or is that a myth?

Probably at the point when aiming started to change sth in the shooting But I do not think it had been ever respected, just like medieval Pope's ban on crossbows...

[Sabuti]

The latest trailer on the ETW site, land battles 2/5, shows the officers of the units fighting with swords and one shooting a pistol.