Quote Originally Posted by Galain_Ironhide View Post
An interesting read and welcome to the .org.

Never really got into using pikes much in m2tw as I like my heavy infantry and spears, though in Vanilla you'll know what everyone is carrying on about as soon as you get the chance to have a battle using pikes. I would suggest downloading a mod to improve gameplay experience.

Enjoy your stay!
I probably will download a mod, eventually. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to a realism focused mod that has 2tpy or, even better, 4tpy and makes expansion realistically difficult... for a longer, more in-depth game - a la RTR for RTW did.

But as for pikes, yes... we'll see. My tentative assumption, after reading through the forums here and at twcenter, is that they work as they should and are no more 'broken' than the wedge formation was in MTW and RTW. Wedge worked fine, I even wrote a guide about how to use it over at twcenter ages ago, and yet everyone carried on for years about it being buggy.

As of this moment I'm more concerned about two-handed weapon animations, that sounds more likely to be a legitimate issue, to me.