Boot up a custom battle, Choose Sturgia for your team, choose Vlandia or such for the enemy. Put 100% infantry for your guys, and 100% Calvary for the enemy.
Try a formation like square, watch your guys get rekt. why? They bump their spears into friendlies and enemies, so they can't do the damage.
Now choose the same setup put choose 100% archers for yourself, put them in square, hold fire. They will win cause they can hit the enemy with their melee weapons.
Bear in mind this is like 250 vs 250 cause my max unit's is set to 500.
Spears are crap, and they shouldn't be. Unfortunately you cannot tell your spearmen to use their swords/axes against cav.
Spearmen do better when they have more space to move and attack so they will get more kills that way, but they still get rekt.
So the anti cav unit is the least effective against cav.
I've tried everything to make spearmen effective, normal line, all the other formations, line formation but drag them into a tight formation, same with the other formations, even charge. Spearmen are garbage.
Try a formation like square, watch your guys get rekt. why? They bump their spears into friendlies and enemies, so they can't do the damage.
Now choose the same setup put choose 100% archers for yourself, put them in square, hold fire. They will win cause they can hit the enemy with their melee weapons.
Bear in mind this is like 250 vs 250 cause my max unit's is set to 500.
Spears are crap, and they shouldn't be. Unfortunately you cannot tell your spearmen to use their swords/axes against cav.
Spearmen do better when they have more space to move and attack so they will get more kills that way, but they still get rekt.
So the anti cav unit is the least effective against cav.
I've tried everything to make spearmen effective, normal line, all the other formations, line formation but drag them into a tight formation, same with the other formations, even charge. Spearmen are garbage.