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	EW: Cossacks - Units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pikemen were virtually the last infantry force of European regular armies which was equipped with cuirasses.
		Pikemen were armed with pikes with a wooden shaft of 5.2-5.8 m (17-19 ft) and swords.
		Pikemen were very effective in close fight; early in the 17th century, they were used both in attacks and for defence purposes.
	www.cossacks.de /english/encyclopedia/un_inf_pikeman.htm (332 words)

	Pike (weapon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swiss and Landsknecht pikemen fight at "push of pike" during the Italian Wars.
		The decline of the combat column of pikemen was starkly displayed at the terrible Battle of Bicocca in 1522, for instance, where arquebusiers contributed to the heavy defeat of a force of Swiss pikemen.
		There are examples of pikemen throwing their weapons down and seizing muskets from fallen comrades, a sign that the pike was on the wane as a weapon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pike_(weapon) (1540 words)

	The English Civil War Society of America Home Page
		Instead, pikemen were instructed to step forward and backward, using only their bodies to push the pike forwards while always keeping their left fist secured under their chin with right arm extended to the rear.
		It should be noted that pikes work best in deep formations, not wide ones, as when pikemen are in wide formations there is no one in the rear to take their place while they recover.
		Likewise, when a few individual pikemen try to flank their opponent's pike block, this also serves no purpose, as they are forced to work individually instead of as a cohesive force, and so should be ignored.
	www.ecwsa.org /miltacticalpushofpike.html (1022 words)

	Tactique
		The novelty in the Tercio was the strict cooperation between the pikemen and the gunmen in the same tactical formation.
		The pikemen were on the centre (the first row was called the line of the captains) with the two garrisons of harquebusiers.
		The pikemen are deployed in 10 ranks excluding the flags and the gunmen in 9 or 3.
	www.geocities.com /ao1617/TactiqueUk.html (5070 words)

	roles.htm
		An infantry regiment would consist of two types of soldier, Pikemen and Musketeers, along with their Officers, Drummers and of course an Ensign, the officer whose job was to carry the regiment's colours.
		Pikemen were the shock troops of the regiment.
		Pikemen were often held in reserve while the musketeers weakened the enemy with their firepower.
	www.btinternet.com /~joy.geldard/Roles.htm (736 words)

	Tactics - Step 4 - Prepare to Repel Boarders
		With the order "Cast loose and provide both" the guns are cast loose, for the service of the gun placed in their proper positions ready for use, small arms brought up from the armory, while the quarter gunner of each division provides waist-belts for cutlasses, bayonets, pistols and battle axes.
		At the order "Pikemen over the boarders!" those who are under arms on the poop, with the pikemen, form a line with bayonets, along the deck in rear of the boarders, who keep close down until the order comes to board.
		The quarter gunner of the after division is provided with a rattle which he springs when the boarders are called; the sound of a gong calls away the pikemen as in the din of battle-the executive officer, though he has a speaking trumpet might not be distinctly heard.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail-tactics4.htm (782 words)

	myArmoury.com - The use of the shield of fully plate armoured knights
		In the 17th pikemen are still the most numerous on the field initially and the numbers of heavy armoured cavalry is declining rapidly until by the 2nd half the cuiraiss and helmet with perhaps a guantlet is what a horseman wears usually at the most, pikemen continue on, heavy cavalry in very minute numbers.
		Pikemen were a minority in all armies before the end of the 16th Century, a larg eminority but a minority nonetheless.
		In the 1560's the pike armed regiments of the Swedish army contained 36% pikemen, by the 1580's the few reamining pikearmed unit sonly hade 20% pikemen and by 1600 there was not a single pikeman in the army.
	www.myarmoury.com /talk/viewtopic.php?p=86760 (3017 words)

	Arms and Armor in the Age of the Musketeer: Armor of the 17th Century
		Pikemen still wore mostly plate armor consisting of a breastplate, a backplate, and tassets.
		In the beginning of the seventeenth century the pikemen’s helmet was known as a morion style helmet.
		The English pikemen were known for wearing the plate armor the longest.
	users.wpi.edu /~jforgeng/17cIQP/armor.html (3422 words)

	Arms and Armor in the Age of the Musketeer: Overview of 17th Century Tactics
		The pikemen and their defense would only be effective if they were extremely disciplined.
		However, the musketeers began to outnumber the pikemen as firearm technology and strategic use of firearms improved.
		At the beginning of the 17th century, the ratio of pikemen to musketeer was 3 to 1, but as the century progressed, the ratio seemed to even out and in some cases, would reverse to a ratio of 1 to 36.
	users.wpi.edu /~jforgeng/17cIQP/tactics.html (3832 words)

	myArmoury.com: The Spanish
		The first was a decrease in the proportion of pikemen, which fell to 40 percent by the 1580s; the second, the introduction of the musket.
		In the 17th Century the proportion of pikemen fell still further, to only 30 or sometimes even 20 percent, but the trend toward the musket, in sharp contrast with developments in other armies, appears to have been somewhat reversed, the proportion of musketeers sometimes being as low as ten percent, and not over 33 percent.
		After the early 16th Century, only pikemen, halberdiers, sword-and-buckler men and officers were likely to wear plate armour—a corselet, often with gorget and armour for the shoulders, arms and thighs (at least half the Spanish pikemen were armoured).
	www.myarmoury.com /feature_armies_spanish.php?print (3625 words)

	Earl of Northampton's Pike page
		Pikemen built the empire of Alexander the Great, and in 216BC Hannibal’s Carthaginian pikemen massacred 62000 Romans out of a force of 65000 at the battle of Canae, the Romans’ worst defeat ever.
		In a Push the pikes are elevated and one company of pikemen will slam into another company in a tight press, the aim being to literally push the enemy back and gain their ground.
		At Point, pikemen form a tight wall with pikes charged at their enemy (either pikemen or musketeers), and attempt to drive them back by thrusting the points into the enemy.
	www.northamptons.org.uk /pike.html (1130 words)

	Pike (weapon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This meant that pikemen had to be equipped with a sword for the chaos of melee, although pikemen attempted to avoid such disorganized combat, at which they were at a disadvantage.
		In such an environment, pikemen grew to intensely dislike their own weapon, as they were forced to stand inactive as the combat went on around them as the opposing musketeers duelled, feeling that they were mere targets rather than soldiers, and that they were adding nothing to the battle raging around them.
		Strangely, the great Hawaiian warrior king Kamehameha I had an elite force of men armed with very long spears who seem to have fought in a manner identical to European pikemen, despite his people's general disposition for individualistic duelling as their method of close combat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pikemen (1540 words)

	Pikemen - Total War Center Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pikemen should be very vulnerable when on the move - they were, after all, brought back during medieval times as defensive counters against heavy cavalry.
		I think pikemen are very usefull in sieges to protect a city entrance for example but when it comes to u being the attacker, having to move quickly to position, well that's a disaster.
		The historical tactic of pikemen is mainly in pin down the enemies by spear point, and let the range units behind do all the work (late Medieval tactic).
	www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=66714&goto=lastpost (1338 words)

	The Arador Armour Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In researching pikemen's armour there are several research approaches.
		As one of the backbones of a Landsknecht army, the pikemen wielded 14 to 18 foot long pikes to keep the enemy's heavy cavalry at bay.
		The job of a pikeman was to create a hedge of pikes to either protect a position or support a push into the enemy.
	www.arador.com /articles/pikemen.html (2089 words)

	- Chapter 37
		Judging by their banners, there were four cohorts of imperial infantry alone, and massed in front of them, at least four cohorts of militia: crossbowmen protected from cavalry assault by ranks of pikemen.
		At this, the crossbowmen released their heavy bolts, and when a horseman was hit by one, whether he wore a captured byrnie or not, he fell dead or terribly wounded.
		Their ranks fragmented by casualties, the pikemen were at a disadvantage against skilled spearmen.
	www.baen.com /library/0671876740/0671876740__37.htm (4826 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
		Historically, the pikemen spelled the end of the dominance of the mounted knight.
		However, traditionally, other infantry would decimate the pikemen because the polearms they used were too long and unwieldy for melee combat.
		The spearmen, as the first in the pikemen line, are scaled-down versions of pikemen.
	www.gamespot.com /features/aoe2_turks/page7.html (414 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pikemen: The Core Infantry of the 17th Century
		Pikemen are absolutely indespensible to the early armies of the 17th Century.
		While a formidable, well trained force of musketeers is fine and dandy a little later, but for now, you need Pikemen.
	www.angelfire.com /games3/CossacksDomain/Units.html (1657 words)

	Machiavelli: Art of War: Book 3
		You see with what fury our pikemen attack them, and how the infantry is already so near each other that they can no longer manage their pikes: so that, according to the discipline taught by us, our pikemen retire little by little among the shields (swordsmen).
		In fact all the ordinary pikemen of the first company have hidden themselves among the ranks of the shields (swordsmen), and having left the battle to the swordsmen, who, look with what virtu, security, and leisure, kill the enemy.
		I believe the pikemen can withstand the cavalry, as you said, but not a large and strong Battalion, as the Swiss do, which, in your Army, have five ranks of pikemen at the head, and seven on the flank, so that I do not know how they are able to withstand them.
	www.constitution.org /mac/artofwar3.htm (5067 words)

	GameSpy: Age of Empires III
		Pikemen were the backbone of Renaissance-era armies because of a military "vogue" for the fighting style of the old Greek hoplites among the military leaders of the time.
		An army of pikemen took enormous training because an individual pikeman is actually quite weak; it's only through coordinated movement and fighting in formation that pikemen become formidable.
		Like certain other archaic units such as crossbows and longbow), pikemen are a dead-end unit line with no final upgrade level.
	pc.gamespy.com /pc/age-of-empires-iii/640099p1.html (854 words)

	TimeGate Studios - Cavalry
		So if your front line or flank is made up of Pikemen, everyone in the company will gain a +5 Attack Value when attacking enemy cavalry units.
		So does that mean that a unit of swordsmen with pikemen on flank would be about as effective as a unit of all pikemen at taking out cavalry?
		The mixed group would be more powerful, but the pure pikemen group is cheaper to buy, cheaper to upkeep, and moves faster.
	www.timegate.com /forum/printthread.php?t=8701 (492 words)

	IGN: Total War Faction Feature, Pt. 2
		Phalanx pikemen carry a small shield strapped to the left arm, leaving both hands free to brandish a lengthy pike (the sarissa).
		The silver shield pikemen (or argyraspids) are the embodiment of Seleucid martial prowess.
		Once in phalanx formation the silver shield pikemen are an almost immovable object unless attacked from the flanks.
	pc.ign.com /articles/531/531959p4.html (820 words)

	IGN Boards - Good balancing HRE infantry
		They do get Pikemen, which are similar to Billmen, but when I played as England the Billmen were absolute crap against cavalry (but maybe Heavy Billmen are better as their defense stats are much higher than any other Billmen but I never played long enough to see them).
		And I assumed that would be the same for Pikemen (they don't have great defense stats, although it does say bonus against cavalry).
		The pikemen seem to come out on top, although I was beaten by the gendarmes each time.
	boards.ign.com /medieval_total_war/b6001/131800410/r131987546 (1204 words)

	The Lords of the Realm II Battlefield: The Armory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Keep them just behind pikemen, and they will make your opponent's force of knights about as powerful as a peasant.
		Defending a castle: 75% Archers, 15% pikemen, 10% Crossbowmen.
		Attacking a castle: 45% Peasants, 20% Pikemen, 35% Archers.
	www.angelfire.com /ab/lords2/1armory.html (685 words)

	Strategy AI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Pikemen node would include various statistics on all the Pikemen that have been allocated to offence (eg total quantity, total hit points, total number of Pikemen killed).
		Then all the Pikemen’s scores would be added together and this value would be assigned as the current allocation value of the Pikemen node beneath defence-melee.
		For example, this allows the AI to detect that its Pikemen have fought well against another player and to use this information to direct growth and development toward the functional roles that made the Pikemen victorious.
	www.itee.uq.edu.au /~penny/_strategy.htm (3990 words)

	Pikemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pikemen is a game that uses Icehouse Pieces and a standard 8x8 board.
		Pieces are warriors with long spears known as "Pikes." Each turn a Pikeman may charge in the direction he is pointing (move any number of spaces in a straight line) and then reorient his pike in a different direction, including straight up for defense.
		Captured pieces are worth different points depending on their size: 1 for small, 2 for medium, 3 for large.
	www.boardgamegeek.com /game/20269 (186 words)

	Play Again Games : Pikemen
		Overview: Pieces are warriors with long spears known as "Pikes." Each turn a Pikeman may charge in the direction he is pointing and then reorient his pike in a different direction, including straight up for defense.
		On your turn, you may move any one of your Pikemen any number of empty squares in the direction he is pointing.
		You may not jump over intervening Pikemen, but you may capture any opponent's Pikeman that is not upright or any opponent's smaller Pikeman which is standing upright.
	wiki.playagaingames.com /tiki-index.php?page=Pikemen (382 words)

	IGN Boards - On pikemen and on upgrades of units !
		Topic: On pikemen and on upgrades of units !
		They look like late period pikemen to me. I would doubt you'd see any pikemen looking like that early in the game.
		They are definatley late period pikemen, but the armor upgrade is what looks promising to me. i rarely got armor upgrades in RTW because I didn't feel like they did much.
	boards.ign.com /medieval_total_war/b6001/130257525/p1/?6 (653 words)

	German Unit Suggestions - SCC Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Germans adopted the Pikemen from the Swiss as the earliest from all other Countries, at the top of the tech tree there should be so German Pikemen chared with the Swiss (not the armored Pikemen).
		The speciality of German Pikemen are 6,60 Meters long Pikes.
		The landsknechts and pikemen look a bit out of our era tho, more like renaissance units.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=4875 (435 words)

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