Just out from Matrix. It's a stablemate of Pike and Shot, which I don't
own, but have heard good things about. I've been thinking about picking
up both of these titles. I've never games the P&S period before, but it
might be interesting. As for the Segoku period, I've never played that
outside of the TW series, so it would be nice to see a more...plausible
treatment.
As an aside, I've never understood "the push of pike", I get it as far
as ancient phalanx warfare goes, where each pikeman had a shield to ward
off enemy thrusts, but in the pike and shot period, the shields were
gone. The pikes look too long and unweildy to parry thrusts with, so it
seems that two bodies of pikemen coming together must have been mutual
slaughter. Except it wasn't, so how did it work?
This portrayal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26C758K4Fc0#t=102 looks
interesting, but I still don't get why the first ranks aren't going down
almost immediately, and the ranks behind after that. I suppose the
cuirasses could be deflecting pike thrusts, especially if they're there
two sides are coming together slowly. Anyway, it's a movie portrayal so
not necessarily to be trusted...
Holdit