Well, fine, what is the professional spear armed infantry unit for that same period then?
Armoured Seargents, Papal Guard, ect. There are probably more that are similar but I can't think of them now. As far as I'm concerned, "Professional Militia" is a Oxymoron, seriously.

Personally, I'd like to see units like the Armoured Seargent, Papal Guard, ect, get a "brace" option to put them up and above the militias so they could actually absorb a head-on cavalry charge. Let Spear militia continue to get bowled over to send home the message that in the early days before professional armies..Knights trully did rule.

Also, to Carl, who's mentioned on several occasions that he wants to merely have the game work as the Devs intended I have this to say..GODS NIPPLES?! Who drank my ale...






And also, we, the paying customers, do not answer to the Devs whims. They answer to us and our desires. Instead of focusing on how to go backwards in game design, why don't we focus more energy on improving this game above and beyond what "The Devs Intended". I know thats probably heresy for questioning the might of our almighty CA gods, but then I'm a protestant..