Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
No it's actually different. The issue with pikemen is they don't keep poking long enough, once the formation loses any bit of cohesion, they invariably whip out their swords which and go at it, and get slaughtered in the process. If they could hold formation a bit better and switch to swords much later than they do right now, they'd last a heck of a lot longer. If you want an example, go mod out their sword secondary weapon so all they have is pikes, then run some tests. They'll kill just about anything in short order when melee starts.

Thanks for the information. But is that definately a bug or just something that a lot of people dislike?