Swordstaff militia are excellent troops on the walls, some of my favorite infantry for field defense, and clearly one of the best price to performance units availble to the Danes. They can be a little hard to use effectively on offense, but in my experience they outperform the Danish halberd infantry who are so much more expensive (Obudshaer?) by a wide margin. In my Viking Migration AAR swordstaff militia became core units for all my armies by the time the Mongols and Timurids rolled around.
As I think I posted somewhere else, they're just one of those units that outperform expectations consistently. They can hold the line against almost anything and if you don't let them get badly flanked they won't rout until they're down to the last man. Pike performance in MTWII is singularly unimpressive, but swordstaff militia make up for it (For the Danes anyway).
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