Integrating it with guns as a single unit was new. As will the training to have the people in it be mobile and coordinated enough to defend against attacks from any side.
Brown_Colibri_705 on
Nobody ever “forgot” about the pike
John_Oakman on
Effective pike formations requires a mass of semi (and above) professional soldiery, which requires decent sized stable political entities.
As with many other renaissance era reinvention/innovations, it’s in a way the natural outgrowth of larger and more coherent political entities and the consequences of that.
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Integrating it with guns as a single unit was new. As will the training to have the people in it be mobile and coordinated enough to defend against attacks from any side.
Nobody ever “forgot” about the pike
Effective pike formations requires a mass of semi (and above) professional soldiery, which requires decent sized stable political entities.
As with many other renaissance era reinvention/innovations, it’s in a way the natural outgrowth of larger and more coherent political entities and the consequences of that.