Ever try doing it with a pike that's twice the size of you and usually requires you to dig it into the ground in order to actually use it against cavalry? and has a giant metal tip at the end? Not exactly something you can spin around with.
doh.
oh no this 6 to 8 pound 3 meter spear is SOO hard to move around around. (in the
most extreme sense of the pike, all pokey weapons considered) /sarcasm
and uh yeah vs cavalry it needs to be braced in real life-- otherwise it is a regular spear. that point is so irrelevant since none of this discussion is even about cav anyways.
besides, no real pikes are in this game so if you make that point it will also be moot. I don't see any 5-6 meter long rather immobile pikes. [because they get broken by the game engine]
We are dead serious that your realism argument is completely wrong. Not even close. If you wanted to argue that, they should be able to poke
way faster. Really, quit while your ahead on that argument.