I was gonna say, looks very intimidating from the front but if you manage to hit the back… what are they gonna do with with a long-ass stick pointing the wrong way?
Yeah, it was the Achilles’ Heel (dohohoho) of the weapon.
Later, Medieval pike formations would mix in soldiers with shorter weapons in the formation (swords and halberds, typically) so if anything nasty like that happened, the troops with weapons that weren’t almost 20 feet long could buy the pikes some time to get themselves somewhere where they weren’t 100% useless, lmao.
I was gonna say, looks very intimidating from the front but if you manage to hit the back… what are they gonna do with with a long-ass stick pointing the wrong way?
Yeah, it was the Achilles’ Heel (dohohoho) of the weapon.
Later, Medieval pike formations would mix in soldiers with shorter weapons in the formation (swords and halberds, typically) so if anything nasty like that happened, the troops with weapons that weren’t almost 20 feet long could buy the pikes some time to get themselves somewhere where they weren’t 100% useless, lmao.