Stats say Danish is OP but I still see nothing but pikes in various shapes/sizes on the battlefield.
Thing about Danish GS and swords in general is that they are great for 1vs1 but if you're better player than your opponent (who's using Danish GS) you're most likely gonna beat him. If you're fighting 3 guys who are using Danish GS and there is a difference between your skill (experience) and theirs you'll gonna win in most cases, even easier if they approached you one on one. Most smart players know why things work like this and many of them "abuse" it, including me. It's way easier to fight multiple noobs using swords than any other group of noobs in this mod.
On the other hand, pike isn't the best weapon 1vs1 but that doesn't mean that better player won't kick your ass even if you're using Danish GS and he's using pike (for example: Zotte using long spear or Cecs using awlpike). But there is a big chance you'll win 1vs1 against someone who's on your skill level and using pike.
BUT.. if you are fighting two guys skilled as you are, you are dead (in scenario where they are using Danish GS that's actually an easier fight than 1vs1 with each of them). If you are fighting two complete noobs who bought Warband yesterday and they are using pikes, you'll have a tough time. Three of them will get you in most cases.
Which leads to conclusion that pike is epic weapon for fighting in groups and since we're mostly playing battle that's all it matters. You can't balance mod for duels when majority are playing battle where face to face duels are rare and it's mostly: gangbang, backstabbing, killing disabled enemies (bumped enemies) and other honorable activities we enjoy on big battle servers.
Danish is pretty crappy when you're fighting in formations, stab has long reach but it isn't very damaging, it's slow and can't be spammed like pikes can, sideswing are mostly useless in formation fights because you must know your hitboxes very well not to hit other members of your team and overhead is cool but you need to get near and that's when you're gonna get hit either by pikes or spammed by one handers. I play on my own for a reason, if I have someone by me fights are a lot harder because of early active blah blah cmp implemented (especially if my buddy is a shielder). Being agi whore means you're not made for fighting in groups because you'll lose your only advantage and that's speed because you lack maneuver space.
I bet now those who actually took time to read this WoT ask themselves, wtf is this guy smoking! Stats clearly show OPness of Danish GS... My theory is this: 2H swords are generally worse choice than many polearms but plenty people still use them, some noobs because they like the looks and some experienced players for style (I would use poleaxes if they weren't so fugly weapons imho). The difference is, that we have more experienced players using swords (Danish GS) then we have good polearm users. I can count good EU polearmers on one hand and when it comes to "2H crutchers" there is at least 20-30 of them. If you don't believe they are decent players, how about you ask cmpx for a free respec so all of us can show you that racking kills is just as easy with certain polearms as it is with greatswords
Whenever I picked poleaxe from the ground with 1 wpf (pretty crap damage because I have just 6 PS and wpf is huge factor when it comes to my damage output) I always managed to kill someone. Fighting shielders is 3 times easier with poleaxe than with swords, not just because I trashed their precious shield in shreds. It's because of fear factor, they fear me much more when they know they can lose their shield. Fear factor is most important thing in this mod, you can win many fights if you know what your opponents think at that moment you're fighting him, no matter how better he might be.
