Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
Well I think the removal of secondary weapon for German spear warband is correct since that's how Gaul spear warband are set up, and the mistake was giving them phalanx formation. It's a mistake that goes all the way back to RTW v1.0.
Not even remotely possible. First of all, it's WAY to expensive for such a unit, the only thing justifying it is the phalanx.
And it's pretty obvious that CA want them to have the phalanx. I know, the Germans didn't historically use the phalanx formation, of course. But I don't think that's what's it's representing. Instead I believe it simply represents the shield wall and/or the hedgehog. CA didn't have the time to make a whole bunch of formations before shipping(like they have got now), and so had to compromise and make 1 which would be applied to all the defensive formations.

well, that's my view anyway...