Re: Pike vs Cavalry
Just to make one thing clear.
1. Being able to repel an attack is better than not being able to. Thus repel is a good thing.
2. To be able to repel you have to have a longer weapon than your opponent. Thus a longer weapon is always better than a shorter one.
3. There is a limit by the game to how long a weapon can be and that is 6.
4. That means that the pike (length 6) is the best weapon type in the game if you don't count damage and so on.
5. That means you have to be particularly careful when boosting this particular weapon type as every other weapon type is inferior to it in this regard. The only things they have to compete with it is damage, attack and defense.
This is not a big issue for nations without the pike, but for Ulm you have to measure the pike against - battle axe, hammer, morningstar, maul, flail and so on, in deciding what you want to buy. This is particularly messy because of the exact same gold and (close) resource cost of almost every MA Ulm unit.
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