Guide: LA Ulm: Goths Gone Wild! or, Flying Immortal Vampire Harbingers of Dooooooooooooooom!

[Dedas]

Good work Tolkien!

Some small things though:

*Morningstars do not ignore shields (the same with flails), they do however get a +2 bonus to attack against them.

*I don't see why pikemen should have a worse time than anything else against lots of infantry. Getting hit in combat basically gets down to your defence. While pikemen has 8 defence compared to 12 of Morningstar infantry this only means that they have a disadvantage of two infantry (-2+ -2) attacks, but that is it. After that the morningstar infantry has lost their advantage while the pikeneer still got his - repel. Yes, morningstars are much better against shorter (1 and down) weapons because they will have repel as well, but it ends there. Pikeneers will never lose that advantage except to other pikes (length 6). Yes, repel gets harder and harder (-2 per repel) but takes a while for it to get impossible AND pikeneers still got their defence although 4 less than morningstar infantry.

To conclude:
I would choose Morningstar Infantry over Pikeneers if faced with the following: Missile units, very short length weapons (less than 2, daggers, claws etc), very high morale infantry 14+ (because the drn + 13 repel check), shield bearing infantry with short weapons (not spears) due to +2 attack from morningstar.

I would choose Pikeneers over Morningstar Infantry if I face the following: Over length 3 weapons (Zweihander greatswords have 3) like spears, medium (13-10) to low morale troops (9-).

I would choose Zweihanders over all the other if I face the following: High HP units with length 3 or less weapons, due to their very high protection plus repel they would normally survive the encounter.