Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32865299-20171201171724/@comment-32865299-20171201192101

Lohikaarme1 wrote: I'm not a military history genius but if I'm not mistaken, the ancient macedonian soldiers used pikes and shields in the phalanx formation and it was not until middle age that the pikemen began wield pikes with both hands. Yes people often make this mistake. The Macedonians would use spears that were 10 feet long this is the longest a spear can get without needing to have immense strength or two hands. For the reason of their length they are often mistakingly called pikes, when in truth they were very long spears.