Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34435400-20180411160106

This is a pretty straightforward suggestion concerning Polearms.

Pikes: Right now everyone uses weapons with 200% range and combat is really just 2 people running in circles hitting eachother. I did some calculations(albeit easy calculations) and a pike is 12 feet long. As you can imagine there are drawbacks to using a 12 ft long pike as well as advantages. One being that it is quite hard to run with a 12 ft long stick so while equipped a player should get a minor slowness debuff like when you use a Lance. Next is mounted combat with a pike, it doesn't work, the pike is far to long to use correctly on a horse. So when mounted a system could be implemented to detect the player mounted and change the pikes in his hotbar to 'pikes' which only do +1 damage, I'm not a coder so I don't know how well this may work.

Spears: Spears are underrated they are used as throwing weapons when in reality a spear was rarely thrown, historically spears were used by the majority of infantry at the time. So spears should now become the main weapon used by Soldiers of all kingdoms(except elven) making other weapons rarer, and should only rarely be thrown.

Lances: Lances should have 175% reach and that's really it.

Halberds: The range on halberds should be changed to 150% and a faster speed. 