Again teamwork can help too, stay close to a pikeman when you are on open space.
Ofc, good cav players will beat you, but good 2h player or good 1h player will beat you too...
1. Do you really think there will be many dedicated pikemen after the patch who run around with 1h and pike ? And how long do they run around with all that ranged stuff in the air ?
2. You say the good cav player will beat me. That´s wrong.
He simply has more range. I stop the same good cav player with a pike. I tested it. And i´m not whining about the patch , i criticize that the patch will make pikes take 3 slots , and i think that´s too much. 2 would be enough i think. Ok, call it whine if you want.
But i think i said enough about the 3 slots thing now ... i will play now, not talk
Maybe i try my xbower more, cause of the coming patch.
Edit :
Pike is probably gonna take 2 slots, not 3. Stop being idiotic and argue about things you have no clue of.
That´s the first real statement , that i hear about it. Until now i read it would take 3 slots all the time. And i don´t think it´s idiotic to talk about such things. But like i wrote above , i stop talking and do more playing ;-) It´s better to wait , what the patch will bring in the end and look what it changes in real then , and what was just idiotic talking