Fixing spear/sword infantry

[Geticus]

I have read a lot of posts with people agreeing about the problem with most spear/sword infantry, i.e. that they switch to spears in the long term of battle and therefore suffer the lethality drop from .225 to .13 (assuming longword/spear armed like solduros, arjos, german elites, dacian elites, etc). I have noticed that the Helvetian phalanx on the other hand does it right, in the long term they fight steadily with longswords which makes them more viable in combat. The reason for this is that the Helvetian phalanx has spear as primary weapon and longsword as secondary. So once they are knocked down, they draw their swords. Likewise if one alt-attacks with them they strike with the sword and keep fighting sword in hand. So I think it would be better if all the cohorts of this type would have spear as primary and sword as secondary. This would make troops like Arjos much more worthwhile, which they should be, but unfortunately at this point they take a clear second place to neitos because of their excessive and less effective spear fighting. Again, having spear as primary and sword as secondary is historically more accurate, no troop historically charged with the sword and then drew the spear for sustained combat, which is impossible and which is what many sword/spear troops do now. In reality, sword and spear armed troops threw the spear or opened combat with the spear to fight from a safe distance, then when the spear broke, or lodged in a shield, or otherwise seemed less worthwhile, then the warrior drew his sword, and finished the fight. The reality is that the use of the spear generally preceded the use of the sword for warriors armed with both, and the present sword primary/spear secondary setup gets it backwards and degrades the value of those troops.