Quote Originally Posted by Rolling Thunder View Post
@Vartan: With their pikes. Sure, they would have had their knives and falcattas, but consider this: If you remove these, they can't switch to them. If they always keep fighting with the pikes, you get a much more realistic situation with the metacombat as a whole.
For what reason? Metacombat? What metacombat? The No Secondary Weapon system is useful for the duration that the pikes are fighting frontal enemies. Once surrounded, the pikes have no way of fighting back. They can't even pull out the swords that they had with them historically. They simply stand there without pikes and wait to be slaughtered.