The Militia ones are, but the elite ones need to be competitive at least with the 2handers/sword and boards.

The problem is Dopp that furthar play with various factions has made me realise that of those that get Halberds, only France and HRE get Halberds AND Pikes, even at militia level. France gets at least 1 of every unit class, HRE also gets an above average number of unit classes too, and thus I don't think eithier is a fair test case.

In every other amry bar france and HRE the Halberds are a direct REPLACMENT for Pikes, even at the Militia level. They get Halberds INSTEAD of pikes. That worrying me as Halberds are slower than Pikes, yet tottally unable to even challange them. It's that damm bugged switchover code again. If they actually poked with their weapons when they wern't in melee range, (as appossed to all hacking because one or two can hack as they do now). I havn't tried a test in vanillia yet but i'd expect them to beat bugged pikes sensless, and considering the price disparity in most cases this makes plenty of sense really.