Pike

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Pike

Name	Damage	Critical	Range	Qualities
Pike	3	3	Reach-2	Set Defence; Schiltron; Unwieldy; Piercing

Reach-2:

• A weapon with Range: Reach-2 adds +dd to Melee Attacks made against targets with non-Reach weapons.

• A weapon with Range: Reach cannot be used to full effect when Engaged, instead it uses the profile for a Staff, except that it gains the Unwieldy trait.

Set Defence:

• When a charging enemy ends their Charge Move within the range of one or more fighters with Set Defence not engaged with any other enemies, one of those fighters makes a Melee Attack targeting that enemy. This attack gains +d for each other unengaged fighter with Set Defence within range of that enemy at any point during their Charge Move.

Schiltron:

• When this weapon makes Set Defence attacks, those Attacks gain 1 rank of Vicious for each weapon with this trait.

Unwieldy:

• This weapon is less ideal for defending against attacks. Decrease the difficulty of any melee attacks targeting the equipped model by -d, to a minimum of dd.

Piercing:

• This weapon can spend an additional a when it scores a Critical Hit to score a Piercing Critical Hit instead.

Pikes in Military Units

When equipped by a Military Unit a pike is one of many kinds of Polearm, adding the benefits of Reach (+d to Attacks against non-reach enemies; +d to Defence checks against non-reach enemies) to its Melee Attacks as well as adding +dd to Defence checks against Cavalry Charge attacks.