Halberdiers

[Prince Cobra]

As you stated in the opening post, the halbs are better not for taking charges. I am not sure is they can also be let against enemy armor units, especially ap, armored infantry units; they have an attack of 1ap against infantry that is really poor and in my experience they often lose. Their advantage against cavalry is real however - provided that they are not chraged (because there is a very real danger they brake). Having a unit of pavise arbs/crossbows on hold position/formation and in loose formration stop an enemy cavalry charge and then bring the halbs in will work. It is in my experience the only thing they can do, but not too many times, because they get tired and soon they are not able to do even that.

Dismounted CKs in vanilla canbe switched between mounted and dismounted and although expensive they are worth every penny they get - unlike imo the halberdiers.

To ruin the reputation of the halbs even more. In a certain battle, due to miscalculation how much I've been outnumbered, I was forced to send Byz cavalry and to stop a unit of Halbs. In order to give a chance of my cavalry army simultaneously used some Naptha to bombard the Halbs. It worked, though it was evertyhing a man should not do. In fact, the enemy army broke right there. But I presume I was lucky that day.

Do not tell me these Pavised poor souls have a chance against the GH cavalry... and until the slow halbs wrap around the cavalry... And not to forget that the GH cavalry tends to pull back and charge for a second time. Are you sure it will not make many wives unhappy (well, most of the wives; few may think of it as hitting the lottary...) ?