MA T'ien Ch'i - a little of this, a little of that and BAM!

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I guess I'll be building more MA TC pikemen from now on!

Although light lance can beat lance in damage output with SoG, lance allows the cavalry to also use their main weapon in the first round of combat, which almost certainly does more than the 3 damage light lance does (often it's a sword which does 7) and while that doesn't get the charge bonus, it gets the SoG bonus. So light lance with SoG could theoretically be better than lance vs targets with super high prot (high enough that SoG + a sword doesn't crack it and neither does the 16 damage + charge bonus lance) but the vast majority of the time lance charge is far more damaging than light lance charge.