Pikes: Any best practise yet?

[WhiskeyGhost]

i've had some pikemen in the expansion work just fine, if you put guard mode on, let em take the initial blow (of whatever attacks em) then turn off guard mode, they seem to poke away a bit before they start going into 'suicide' mode with those dinky swords

[Moah]

Carl's pike fix edited out the secondary swords entirely so they never put teh pikes away.

He eventually reduced the stats too as they became uber units that could slaughter anything (especially when armoured. I had much fun with the scots heavy pike militia slaughtering the mongols!)

I think it's still in his "bugfixer" all in 1 fix (do a search), but I don't know if it's compatible with 1.2 (post kingdoms) so i'm not running it at the moment.

There's various other things in there - and before 1.2 it had shield and 2h fixes.