Quote Originally Posted by InDaKnight
Spear units do very well in conjunction with cavalry. Keep your spear units flanks protected and they won't rout even when their morale is 2. Orderfoot can do alot of damage to enemy cav when used put on "engage at will."

Stop being such wusses and use them more often. It takes a better player to use them anyway.
Orderfoot are too expensive. The spear should not be more than half the cost of the cavalry it beats. In MTW v1.0, the orderfoot cost 350 and a chiv knight cost 875. That's the right cost relationship. In addition to that, the spear was more effective against cav in MTW v1.0. This was screwed up in MTW v1.1 when the orderfoot went to 400 and the chiv knight to 675, and the cav got pushbacks on the spears. A pushback gives +6 combat points to the cav. That's a 300% combat bonus to the cav on the next combat cycle.