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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2012, 01:47:34 pm »
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I've been a piker for a lot of my cRPG time and having two stabbing direction would make them very overpowered
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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2012, 12:56:38 am »
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As a cavalry played I say ...

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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2012, 08:23:48 am »
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As a cavalry played I say ...

This is a really good idea, if you can make it so the pike can be used as normal but then like with couching you can fix the pike in a single position. Add the couch damage multiplier and you have something great for countering mass cavalry charges. Clever players will walk round the pike as infantry so couch damage should only affect people stupid enough to run straight onto a braced pike (which in a way is pretty realistic). it may also make pikes being used behind shield walls better at stopping horsemen as when braced you could make the pike not collide with players in front. This is a simple and entirely beneficial suggestion. Please implement it!

Nice troll. Pikes are already rather pointless against cav because basically no one is stupid enough to ride into one. How will this be better if the pike is stationary?

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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2012, 08:51:03 am »
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I don't need two directions, bracing, or anything done with my Pike or Long Spear to make it good.


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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2012, 06:38:40 pm »
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no one is stupid enough to ride into one.

That is pretty much my point. I suppose i see this being used in the context of team formations which actually in battle is extremely rare. Pikes should be useful in groups and this idea would make them more valid for a grouped shield wall with pikes covering their backs and flanks. This is more useful probably in strat (so is basically redundant) but if people were to work together once in a blue moon in battle it could also be used then. There is no reason not to implement this to be honest. If it is so useless surely it wouldnt make the pike any less viable or more viable. So to be against it seems a bit unjustified :P
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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2012, 04:44:26 am »
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It's not as much about killing the cavalry as it is as telling them to gtfo or die. ;)
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Re: Braceable pikes
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2012, 01:26:18 am »
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Nice troll. Pikes are already rather pointless against cav because basically no one is stupid enough to ride into one. How will this be better if the pike is stationary?

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