Pikeman vs Commando

[BigBird]

Commandos are better than Pikeman.

Commandos

• Can have more powerstrike
  
• Have better armour
  
• Have less speed
  
• Can get better weapons
  

Pikeman

• Less powerstrike 
  
• Lowest armour of any class
  
• Fastest of any class
  
• Gets worse weapons
  

I will cover some of these points in more depth.

Powerstrike

Commando's can have 8 powerstrike if they get Militia and Crossbowman. The max powerstrike a Pikeman can get is 7.

Armour

Commando's have far better armour (at the cost of weight, so this links in with speed which I will talk about later.) Transitional giving 70 body armour and 31 leg armour. The best current pikeman armour gives 32 body 18 leg.

Speed

Commando's have less athletics and heavier armour than pikeman, but what does this mean? Well it means it cannot solo as well as the Pikeman but Nord Invasion is not about soloing and the metagame of Nord Invasion at the moment consists of slashers (Who stand still and slash), shielders and ranged. I didn't mention healers and builders because any class can forfull those roles.

Roles

But "BigBird" you might say, "Pikeman can be ranged or slashers!", well thats right Timmy but Commando's can be slashers or shielders.

Weapons

Now onto the weapons, I will be talking about the "slashing" category of weapons available to both classes.

Spoiler

Commando's get:
Ancient Greatsword
Swing Damage: 60 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 152
Speed: 91

Volundr Greatsword
Swing Damage: 62 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 135
Speed: 95

Spoiler

Pikeman get:
Sunpike
Swing Damage: 52 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 180
Speed: 88

Thunder Pike
Swing Damage: 48 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 200
Speed: 88

Dragon Halberd
Swing Damage: 52 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 162
Speed: 94

Snake Halberd
Swing Damage: 55 cut
Thrust Damage: 35 pierce
Length: 156
Speed: 92

Swadian Halberd (Done off the top of my head)
Swing Damage: 60 cut
Thrust damage: ?
Length 18x
speed: 88

I am unsure whether to include the pike of kings as I am not sure whether it is obtainable (However stabs are far less efficient for slashers as if they get blocked they will be stunned longer)

First of all lets look within pikeman's own weapons, why is the swadian halberd the highest cut out of all the above weapons when it's not even a legendary. Surely something that is much rarer should be better?

Now apart from the swadian Halberd the commando's weapons outshine all pikeman weapons by 5 or more cut (Don't forget those commando's can also get 1 more powerstrike.) I will mention however that the polearm overhead does go through teammates which is a bonus, but making a small gap in the shield wall allows two handers to clean up just as well.

So overall the Commando's can deal more damage, take more damage and get better weapons all at the cost of being slow which for Nord Invasion's current teamwork means nothing.

Discuss, but I think its clear that Pikeman are in need of a buff.