Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post

2. If you want to try them on offense, you must learn how to order them to stop everytime the enemy is about to near with you, that way, the spear-wall will be presented and your enemy impaled, that's it.

Infantry don't get impaled like cavalry does. Once pikemen get engaged with other infantry they will drop their pikes and get in melee with their daggers; this place them in disadvantages and defeat is certain for weaker pike units. Pikemen definitely have their strengths, but for me I prefer armoured sergeants (and other stronger spear units) over pikemen. Personally I only use pikemen when playing as Spain or Portugal, these are the only factions able to present potent pike units (tercios and aventuros) and advanced gunpowder units (portugese arquabusier and musketeers).