Thanks for the great replies everyone! While I can't think of an explicit example of pikemen easily defeating dismounted men-at-arms off the top of my hand; my inspiration for the notion that pikemen performed well against such units would be the Battle of Arbedo where the Swiss saw how Milanese dis...

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know how swiss/landsknecht pikemen were able to defeat dismounted men-at-arms IRL so frequently? I can imagine how the long pikes of the formation would prevent the men-at-arms from being able to engage with their shorter polearms/broken lances, but how were the men-at-ar...

Yeah they just seem to have the worst aspects of light and medium cavalry combined.

Hello, could someone give me some advice on how to use Arkebusiers? I find them to be really hard to use as they can't outmaneuver rival cavalry and their low numbers do not make them resistant enough to properly ZoC lock Tercios and pike formations like how I use reiters. If I'm not mistaken, would...