[Calanor]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
[HI supply upkeep..]

Hmm, well, I still dunno if I feel that messing around with supply costs would be the most preferable approach, but at least I can following your reasoning now

Looks like SOMEBODY needs to go back and play Master of Magic. Hello, do you think I just pull this stuff out of my ***?

Embarassingly enough, I never played MoM.
Anyway, I would expect a pike to be used to counter cavalry - not to counter a bunch of guys strolling about in chain mail or whatever. There is nothing about a pike that suggests that it should excel versus heavy armour - it certainly should not be more efficient at it than, say, your standard spear. Instead, its main advantage is reach (which is taken into account in Dom2) and defensive capabilities vs - in particular but not excluded to - a cavalry charge. In all cases, you would want to horde pikemen in order to allow them to be efficient - a lone pikeman would probably be rather useless.

Bonuses versus cavalry is oddly enough not included in Dom 2 - this might be another sensible ability to add to some mundane weapons.

[Edit: Typos..]

[ November 01, 2003, 15:42: Message edited by: Calanor ]