Which polearm?

[KaleLord]

lawl

[Ishar]

I know what weapon is best now. The cheap one.

Good point, I just bought a boar spear.

[KaleLord]

Good point, I just bought a boar spear.

if you want cheap u should have bought a trident or pitch fork :p

[Ishar]

There's a limit to how low I can sink, and I draw the line at actual farm equipment.

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

Go for the pike if you wanna rape cavalry. It's funny, I'm putting all wpf into polearms in order to *eventually* go cavalry. Until then I fight on foot with spear and sheild. Yet I find myself killing lots of cavalry! I love picking up pikes: they rape horses heartily, and are also good if you have teammates around.

If you JUST want a polearm to kill ponies use a pike. If not, then any old spear will work. Even a pitchfork can be effective. Be careful though, for most cavalry (as Kale said) use heavy lances or something with good range. I still say pike ftw... Actually, ima go buy one now

[Tai Feng]

IMO, if you are using polearms use thrusting polearms. Don't bother with swinging polearms - if you want to swing, 2H is much better at that. Pike, awlpike, some forks, they are all good. Use with both hands.
And of course, you want heavy lance. Horses are stronger than ever - also, difficult to upkeep, but stronger than ever. You want one from time to time.

[KaleLord]

i cant deicde from keeping my palfrey buying a destier or a courser :O

[Vexus]

If you have pretty good/high PS I like the Arena Lance instead of the boar spear because it's cheap, swingable, no penalty with shield and is fast.

[zagibu]

You should have gone for the pike. Shorter spears need good timing, or you will get lanced instead (heavy lance has reach 190).

As for the hafted blades: it's not only 2 speed versus 2 dmg, regular is also 21cm shorter. I would take long. Actually I would take neither and go for long hafted knobbed mace, which is blunt damage (31 blunt hurts more than 38 cut against armor 34+), longer than regular hafted blade and faster than long hafted blade. Plus it got knockdown.

[KaleLord]

too bad i already bought long hafted blade
finding it very hard to use on pony back lawl

[huscarl_johnson]

*picks pike to counter cavalry*

*gets stabbed in the back of the head @ 80mph*

[Viceroy]

*picks pike to counter cavalry*

*gets stabbed in the back of the head @ 80mph*

turn around very now and again and look at the battlefield behind you. Problem solved.

[huscarl_johnson]

hahaha you could spin like a fucking top and it makes no difference to the fact that cavalry will choose when and where to fight you. All a foot dude can do is react. Polearms are no counter whatsoever.

[bruce]

i cant deicde from keeping my palfrey buying a destier or a courser :O

You'll have issues upkeeping a destrier. A palfrey is good enough for most purposes, a bit squishy, sure... but still good enough.

[Viceroy]

hahaha you could spin like a fucking top and it makes no difference to the fact that cavalry will choose when and where to fight you. All a foot dude can do is react. Polearms are no counter whatsoever.

That's odd because I tend to kill at least 2 horses every round with throwing axes or war darts, simply with a little bit of battlefield awareness.

Of course I see many of my teammates just take it in the @ss over and over again because they are so focused on rushing to the main battle area, not even scanning the whole field
to see those 3 or 4 cav coming from the rear left flank....

I've warned them till im blue in the face, but they don't seem to care.