Quote Originally Posted by God's Grace
see when cavalry charge into spearmen they usually destroy the entire unit even if in schiltrom. i dont know how to use them against charging cavalry. what should i do? and shouldnt Billmen have bonuses fighting cavalry?
1. apply the shield fix (fox has a nice program to do that). in the vanilla, shield defense value actually gets subtracted (or so it seems) from the defense rating of the unit in combat. fox's fix get's rid of the problem (half of shield's value into armor/half into defense).

2. apply the pike fix (look around in the forums for that, basically, remove the secondary weapon from pikes).

3. apply zhiang's 2hander fix.

and your spearmen (all kinds of them) will be potent against cavalry again.