High_Inquisitor said:
you say that but bamboo spears arent especially long and even long pikes can get taken out by a good great lance attack by someone who knows what theyr doing. Still i find swadian cav really boring, rather be rhodok spearman any day
Glaive + Javs. I've yet to see the horseman who can effectively evade a javelin thrown at him while attacking (assuming he's been spotted; sneaky horsemen can of course just backstab jav-throwers). And the glaive is a very useful tool for taking him down once his horse is wounded, and works for fighting the dismounted guy very well (a powerful attack while he's defenseless; if he survives that, it's a somewhat okay-ish weapon for a 1-on-1 fight, at least compared to the pike. I normally prefer the war spear, but once the enemy's wearing armour, killing him with a war spear tends to become a pretty... tiring task).