Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27179278-20160127025240/@comment-27179278-20160127153043

DavidReidHowe wrote: well pikes are extremly long, i think you mean like spears, pole-axes, pilums and warchythe polearms are shorter, pikes and lances are used for jabbing and thrusting. Pikes certainly are, I shouldn't have generalized that broadly. If I may be so bold as to reference the Wikipedia article on lances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance

It expresses that there are differences between pikes and lances in the first paragraph, stating that pikes tended to be used by infantry because they could be repeatedly jabbed, unlike a lance, and did not have a vamplate to prevent the hand from slipping upon impact. Given the unique evolution that the lance underwent to become the mainstay of cavalry charges, I believe that it makes sense to give lances unique mounted characteristics, as opposed to pikes, pole-axes, etc.

You did pique my creativity though, and, if lances are changed, I might suggest making pikes into a kind of infantry lance: while you hold a 'charged' lance, you dismount and seriously damage and cavalry that attack you. This would give infantry a hard-counter to the strength of cavalry, but I digress. Best to stay on topic ;)