>make pointy stick longer>defeat everyoneWhat a silly world.
>>18771880crazy how 90% of human weapons are some variation of a stick
>>18771880Spears are gayReal men use swords and/or axes and shit
>>18771880Why were these rigid formations not super vulnerable to massed missile attacks and harassment from horse archers, slingers and skirmishers?
>>18771959It says a lot about zagrosians that they had the cheese style of warfare (proctile spam + cavalry) and still lost to these
>>18771880The macedonian cavalry won the battles for them not the phalanx
>>18771959Well they were but Alexanders armies also deployed horse archers and skirmishers. And lastly they were, for their times, heavily armored and could simply take the hits (for a time) and push the skirmishers off the objective position.
>>18771955completely incorrect
>>18771955Nah you're gay. Real men used spears as primary weapon in formation, then swords/axes as secondary weapons.As someone with just a sword, how are you going to get past a wall of spears? You will be poked to death before you can cut anything
>>18772161>As someone with just a sword, how are you going to get past a wall of spears?muh spear enthusiasts will bring tight formations at every debate because they know a competent swordsman would outmurder the finest spearman in a 1vs1 situation. We all fucking know that if you are a peasant, aka the people that made up most of the armies before profesionalism arrived, with next to no fighting skill, giving you a spear and asking you to stay as close as possible to your buddies is the only thing you can really do.
>>18771880>gets completely dabbed on by a guy with a sword and big shield>stops existing as a viable form of battle for 1500 yearsswordchads win again
>>18772431So how did they come back later in the form of pike squares?
>>18771959Phillip and Alexander bought a lot of mercenaries with different native fighting styles specifically to prevent that type of harassment.It was extremely expensive.
>>18771959they werehence alexandre lost half his army invading northern Persia and the remainder mutinied in india
>>18771880shield + sword = bonus vs infantryshield + spear = bonus vs cavalry
>>18772431That is a 1st century AD roman, they beat the greeks more than 200 years before that using different kit.
>>18772808>gets completely dabbed on by a guy with a sword and big shieldswordchads win again
