Thanks, grahambriggs! About nagae-yari vs. spearmen, does that mean that pike do not have any inherent benefit in FoG(R) from their longer reach? Regardless, your suggested duality approach would be worth trying, although I'm not sure how their point cost should be adjusted. Still, I believe that sa...

From memory, the Mapuche pike are limited to a maximum depth of two ranks. That seems to be the essential special rule. How about making nagae-yari "pike", but with the same depth constraint? Again, I'm not interested in tournaments nor in ahistorical matches. Judging from the responses th...

Well, I don't have the Cities of Gold, so can't comment, and as it would only be a few lines, maybe you can post it here so people who don't have the boook CAN comment? Sorry, being new here, I was unsure about the forum policy on IP and quoting rules. Regardless, I am hoping to find a way of emplo...

Thanks! However, the question is about using the special rules from the Mapuche army list for Japanese nagae-yari . It may be best to check the Mapuche rules in Cities of Gold first. As for the Japanese fighting themselves, that is what I'd prefer to game, but where the Japanese are not represented ...

While leafing through the FoGR army lists that I acquired recently, I was disappointed, but not surprised (given DBx), to see that Japanese nagae-yari are treated as spear, and not as pike. Brian Bradford, for one, has suggested that nagae-yari may have been efficiently pike-like, even though they m...