What is the pike square tactical formation?

In response to the Burgundian threat the Swiss developed a tactic that could be used by mobile, lightly armored soldiers carrying only a long, steel-tipped pike for defence. A pike square generally consisted of about 100 men in a 10×10 formation. While on the move, the pike would be carried vertically.

What is a pike formation?

Pike and shot was a historical infantry tactical formation that first appeared during the Italian Wars of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, prior to the development of the bayonet in the late 17th century. This type of formation combined soldiers armed with pikes and soldiers armed with arquebuses and/or muskets.

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What were pikemen vulnerable to?

By this point, pikemen were becoming the main forces in armies. The rise of firearms and artillery in the 16th century made the large formations consisting entirely of pikemen vulnerable to being shot down despite their close-combat power.

How did pikemen fight?

At ‘point’ is traditionally how pikemen fought each other. Big blocks of pikeman would level their pikes (see right) and advance towards each other into a crush called ‘push of pike’, when the front ranks would draw swords and engage in deadly hand-to-hand fighting.

What is a medieval pike?

Pike, medieval infantry weapon, a long spear with a heavy wooden shaft 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 metres) long, tipped by a small leaf-shaped steel point. It disappeared from land warfare with the introduction of the bayonet, though it was retained in shortened form as a naval boarding weapon through the 19th century.

What was the role of pikemen in medieval 2?

Because of the manner in which pikemen were implemented in Medieval 2, many generals have pushed the pike formation into a defensive corner, preferring to reserve the offensive role of their militaries for tried-and-true heavy infantry, swordsmen, and spearmen.

What do Highland pikemen do in total war?

These well trained, although sometimes reckless clansmen are armed with pikes, allowing them to present English knights with a wall of pointy death. Unit can adopt the phalanx formation.

What kind of Army did the pikemen fight in?

Well armoured Pikemen made up of Scottish nobles preferring to fight in the infantry. Since Scottish armies cannot field cavalry to match the English knights, they have found other ways to neutralise this threat, such as rows of brave men with long steel pointed sticks.

Which is the best deployment of a pikeman?

Battlefield Deployment: Pikemen are the most synergistically-dependent of all available unit classes, and should never be employed alone on the battlefield. Pikes achieve synergy with other, overlapping units of pikemen in double-stacked square formations (refer to my discussion of the Pike Square) or Heavy Infantry (as examined in the Tercio).