How many wars are generally classed as "Pike & Shotte" wars? The English Civil Wars and the Thirty Years' War are the obvious ones, but are there any others which are considered to have been fought that way?
>>64390146Whatever the ones with the Spanish
>>64390146Dutch wars of independence. Anything with the Spanish Tericos, the 30 years war.
>>64390146A significant chunk of the Sengoku period in Japan was also pike-and-shotte, they made the transition from archer cavalry and polearm foot to gun and pike blocks with shock cavalry early in the era and didn't really leave it tactically until the 19th century.
>>64391219What the Japanese had wasn't exactly Pike Blocks. Their deployment of musketeers basically resembled how East Asian/Contemporary Chinese Combat formations deployed archers in general. They were even named the same (Crane, Heron, Bird's In Flight, Tiger, etc).
>>64390146Practically all wars in western europe from 1500 to 1700 were characterised by pike and shot formations. In addition to the conflicts already mentioned itt the Italian Wars, the War of Devolution, the Cologne War and the French Wars of Religion and the Polish-Swedish War are other noteworthy examples.>shotteAlso what's the deal with this particular misspelling of the term "shot"?
>>64391889Because it sounds 'ye olde'
>>64390146Arguably the Burgundian wars. The Swiss used Pikes but I don't think they used massed guns yet. Following that you had the Wars of Burgundian Succession because the last duke of Burgundy got his ass killed in the Burgundy Wars. That was most definitely a pike and shot war.After that was the Italian Wars and the Reconquista, a whole lot of Spanish kicking around natives, and Denmark trying to conquer the North.
>>64390146The Scanian war, which I only know about because I have a board game about it (Nothing Gained but Glory).
>>64392436Random related fact: Despite these wars ending nearly 400 years ago, the term "Snapphanar" (a plural from, vaguely meaning something like insurrectionist, literally meaning "snap-lock shooters") is still frequently used as a derogatory term for Scanians, since they're still (mostly jokingly) seen as disloyal half-Danish mongrels. -T. SwedeAnd despite 400 years passing since these wars, the damned Scanians still speak borderline incomprehensible half-Danish dialects, which sound like they're speaking with their mouths full.
Some of the later ones between Denmark and Sweden of course. They went to war like 30 times so at some point they did this.
>>64392474>is still frequently used as a derogatory term for ScaniansVery locally perhaps, I've never heard it used that way.
