Pikes a disappointment

[Jihad]

Yes Pikemen are definetevely underpowered as units in MTW,meaning there are other units that do their job better in every aspect possible, offensively(halberds)and defensively(spears) while having less requirements and coming much earlier.Pikes is undervalued weapon in MTW and we all know that this weapons can be a terrible weapon since ancient times aka "sarrisa" and the famous phalanx.In theory a pike wall should be a a devastating force hard to penetrate frontaly(even by swords) and their major weaknes should be flanking or by missiles(since they use both hands for handling the heavier and longer spike wich also means no shield for a minimal arrow protection).
Pikemens in MTW can be taken down by any other decent foot infantry wich is ridicoulos.Realistic speaking would be almost impossible for spears or any other much shorter weapon to deal with a dense pike wall as frontal duel.
As final solutions i think im satisfied for now with how i moded and i think they are much better in holding their ground and what i did is following:
-raised their number to 120(vanilla pikemen) 114(swiss versions)
-lowered 1 armor point from swiss pikemen versions
-made vanilla pikemens to be available at Town Watch3(Citadel tech)