Post by snowcat on Oct 22, 2020 11:36:13 GMT
Take away the Spear side-support and you have CF 4 v CF 6, and the Spear long
single line is no longer effective. They’d have no choice but to form-up in multiple
lines in order to fill in the inevitable gaps the Pikes will punch in their battleline...
...which ends up looking more like a Roman formation than a Greek one.
Allowing Spears to have +1 for rear-support instead would cure the problem.
They’d have a CF of 4+1 (the same as Blades), so would still be inferior to the
Pikes CF, but at least they’d still ‘look’ like a Greek formation (albeit deeper),
and their frontage would be the same as that of the Pikemen.
This is the approach taken by Shirmplyamazing’s “Everyone gets rear-support
with reduced heavy foot combat factors”, which I think is a better solution.
However, perhaps it is fair for Sp to be allowed rear support in a similar manner to Wb, but only against enemy Pk or Sp.
Do away with side support vs 4Pk and allow Sp +1 for rear support vs enemy Pk or Sp.
It's just a handful of words to easily adjust what is already written.
