Top infantry units?

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In my HRE campaingn I came across the Danes and was surprised by their good units. They have good cav two. Tough enemy they are - little Viking succesors.

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I ran them against Scottish Noble Pikemen which seem to have the highest stats of any pike unit. They chewed them up incredibly fast.

If you are referring to Pikes versus Cavalry, no I have not run any tests on those yet. I would guess that Pikes suffer the same problems that spear wall units face. Namely that while they inflict severe casualties at the moment of impact, they suffer more than they inflict and as such take a terrible morale hit and break shortly afterwards.

On another note, while playing around with the Obudshaers versus French Lancers, I was able to reliably beat the Lancers 1v1 with the Obuds but it took SIGNIFICANT micromanagements. Essentially I had to reform the Obuds into a formation with 5+ ranks. Set them to spear wall, recieve the charge in spear wall and then turn it off. Duke it out with the knights untill they break off to charge again. Reform the formation, and try to hussle them into the spear wall again.

Generally speaking the knights will break off and recharge 3 or 4 times. Against 80 Lancers, 120 Obudshaers would win about 75% of the time with 10 to 20 men left. If they lost, as a rule it seemed to be because I was unable to quickly get them back into spear wall to recieve the charge.

You will also probably be thinking to yourself this is simply not a realistic thing to achieve when you have a massive battle raging. I completely agree ;p