Last night I hit on a good use for pikemen. When defending, I deployed my artillery along my main line. I had one unit of pikemen in the stack (Great Britain, fighting vs. the Huron), so I put them in their wall formation and lined them up directly behind the artillery, between the deployed guns and the limbers. They fit nicely in this spot, and the pikes were right at the backs of the artillerymen.
I noticed that the Huron lancers never once charged the artillery units that had the pikes behind them.
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