Pike schiltrons ?
Passing thought : I dimly remember that Spanish Tercios and Napoleonian riflemen fought in squarish or rectangular formations, with soldiers facing all sides to ward off cavalry.
And it seems to me that in M2TW, a pike schiltron (the closest in-game formation to the real thing) would be very deadly to pretty much everything save for missiles, which would perhaps remove the need to delete their secondary weapons to make pikes worthwile (that, and the Scots historically fought in pike schiltrons, and since they are THE pike heavy faction in the game...). Plus, they wouldn't be overpowered either, or at least less overpowered than they are without secondary weapons, because schiltons are veeeery slow on the kill against anything but cav.
Of course, giving them the schiltron ability would take away the spearwall, but given that formation's low efficiency right now, plus the fact that it's also used by halberd units (meaning it's not a "pike priviledge" per se), I wonder : has anyone tried modding pikemen to use the schiltrom ? With what results ?
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