Oath of Fealty

[VMadeira]

I read a post somewhere in the forum replying to a proposed "Oath of Fealty" tournment theme, that the best army for this theme, would be the one with more armoured defensive spearmen.

Thinking a bit on it, I feel this statement it's true. Armoured knight's will charge at - POA, and then in Melee they stay at - POA unless somehow they manage to disrupt the spearmen, which would make them at equal POA's. Also the def. spearmen are much cheaper.

So how the nobles / knights ruled the western battlefields for a few centuries if they were so lousy against simple footmen?

The relation between def. spearmen against mounted lancers should be reviewed, the lance was as large as most spears (or larger) , horses do charge against infantry with spears (didn't the burgundians charged pikes? no matter the result) and military history tells us that Knights were the winning arm of most western armies of this period, so there must be something wrong in this interaction.