"Axe" attribute for Legionnaires

[GoreBag]

This is true, but in use against cavalry you don't actually have to thrust with the spear - so long as you have a sufficient wall of spears presented to the enemy, no horse will charge it. The horse, after all, doesn't know that pilums are weak. Once the momentum is broken, you can close on the cavalry with your swords.

True, but I present that a sword is a less effective weapon than a spear when fighting cavalry, even when the horseman is at a standstill. Better to kill the soldier or horse from a distance.

I guess the pilum would have been marginally effective...for the first stab. It's better than no spear at all.

[Simetrical]

It's just as good as a regular spear for a wall of spears. I saw a photo of a spear-wall formation by some reenactors—the first rank crouched, pila forward between shields, butt planted in the ground, the second rank standing with pilum poised to throw. No horse would charge that without lots of training that nobody bothered to give them. Horses were expensive, anyway, not the sort of thing you'd want to throw away like that. Of course, lancers could charge in relative safety if their lances were longer than the pila, as many doubtless were.

-Simetrical