Highland Pikemen (M2TW-K-BC unit)
Highland Pikemen | |
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Category: | Infantry |
Class: | Spearmen |
Soldiers: | 60 |
Morale: | 5 |
Discipline: | Impetuous |
Training: | Highly trained |
Recruitment cost: | 360 |
Upkeep cost: | 125 |
Well trained, but sometimes reckless clansmen armed with pikes, able to form a wall of pikes against cavalry.
Attack | |
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Primary weapon: | Melee (Pike) |
Weapon attributes: | Spear, Bonus vs. cavalry = 8 |
Attack: | 8 |
Charge bonus: | 5 |
Secondary weapon: | Melee |
Attack: | 5 |
Charge bonus: | 2 |
Defence | |
Total defence: | 6 |
Armour: | 0 |
Defence skill: | 6 |
Shield: | 0 |
Hit points: | 1 |
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. 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.
Attributes
- Can board ships
- Can hide in forest
- Can withdraw
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