Just watched that movie again, quite possibly the best line in the movie.
"won't we hit our own men?"
"Yes. But we'll hit theirs too" .
Pikemen, despite being equipped only with a melee weapon are no better at melee than line infantry, and due to casualties they sustain while closing the distance, will often lose.
While a poster above said that pikemen are useless unless fighting cavalry, in my experience they are useless even when fighting cavalry.
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