Are bayonet techs critical in early game?

[Slaists]

Does the attack value increase when a unit gets bayonet's?. In M2TW you could get extra 6 attack points if you retrained a unit at a swordsmith guild. I wonder what the effect of bayonet's and the tech bayonet drill is on the mêlée capability.

You sure it was +6 attack bonus from a swordsmith guild in MTW2? Sure you were not playing a mod? I always thought it was +1 attack in vanilla.

Attack value is supposed to go up +2 once bayonets are fixed. Further bayonet techs increase charge value.

+2 attack is easily achieved through the troops gaining experience (and you gain defense too). It is possible that bayonets bring extra + to attack against cavalry, but that has not been spelled out anywhere by CA. To me it seems, the big counter-cavalry bonus is embedded in the square formation no in bayonets themselves.