cavalry charges against pikes units

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Wauthan:
Well I'm sure a cavalry charge would be called off if they see a forest of pikes before them. I'm no expert in medieval warfare but surely pikes were used more like a barrier rather then as a meleeweapon?

Exactly. Some time ago I suggested to remove the repel and instead subtract the sum of the differences between the length of the attacker's weapon and the length of the longest weapon of all the defenders in the attacked square. Thus a single pikeman would have little effect while 3 would inflict a rather severe penalty.

Now with this system, Hoburgs with pikes would be rather formidable.