Quote Originally Posted by Quillan
From my own limited experience making use of Tercio Pikemen in my Spanish campaign, the pike hold quite well against cavalry as long as the cavalry stays in the front. If the cav wraps around the side, I take horrendous casualties. I've learned to keep a unit tight on each side of the pike line to prevent that. I expect that loose formation makes the cavalry wider than the pike unit, so the ends wrap around.
True I play a lot with Portugal and My Aventuros do quite well against cavalry (and everything else BTW) just has long has they aren't flanked. SP and MP experience.