Spearmen

==In game==
===Vital stats===
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===Overall Strategy===
Amongst all melee infantry, Spearmen are the most versatile, and are also endowed with lots of armour and HP. Make no mistake, however, as they easily overtaken by missile units and are clearly outmatched if pitted against Grenadiers or even Pikemen. Nevertheless, their proficiency with a spear and their endurance means that they are adept at taking out cavalry and towers. Thus, while spearmen can be an awesome force to reckon with when coupled with forced marching, they do require someone to take out archers (and in some cases, siege weapons). A single Spearman is a dead Spearman, so remember to use them in batches of at least five units for maximum effect.
Spearmen, however, are extremely costly — they have the biggest appetites for Food, and they demand the highest quality of arms and armour, amongst all other infantry types, and some may prefer to use Swordsmen, which performs well against all other units save heavy infantry and cavalry. Still, their military prowess in the early game is unrivalled, save by lancers, which having greater speed and LOS can lay down some serious damage in a fight, but in many cases, you are better advised to raise musketeers and cavalry rather than Spearmen. For one, these units are extremely slow on foot, so you should use them primarily for defence.
===Unit summary===
==History==
The use and popularity of polearms throughout Europe and Asia attests much to the popularity of this weapon: despite being deceptively simple to make, a polearm was highly lethal, especially in the hands of well-trained users. Polearms combined the long reach of spears and shorter weapons, such as warhammers or swords to form a highly versatile anti-personnel weapon. Caesar's naval victory in north-eastern Gaul (present-day Brittany, France) was attributed to the use of billhooks which were used to disable Gaulish ships, granting the Romans north-western Gaul. In Northern Asia and Northern Europe, polearms were often the favourite weapons of various armies, because of their availability and were even used from horseback in China and Japan. It was an unnamed Lorrainian peasant soldier who killed Charles the Bold with a halberd at Nancy in 1477, ending the Burgundian Wars in one stroke.