In Battle of Ipsus, the macedonian phalanx pikemen routed by the potential charge of Seleucid cavalry).
In Battle of Seminara the swiss pikemen charged the Rodeleros after the rodeleros' formation had already destroyed by french Gendarmes, Charge the pike phalanx frontly is the common tatics of late medival frech cavalry. In Battle of Cynoscephalae the macedonian phalanx had terrain advantage. In Battle of Pydna the macedonian phalanx only beat the roman auxiliary troop frontly. There are some idea on engine based coding, game based balacing design and military theory: in Attila based game base damage do not grow arithmetical but geomtric if the armor is higher than base damage we should calculate it carefully(This is fixed by 3K and Warhammer which is very good).(In attila the kv_rules_tables: pike attack zone depth are too long, and the pike attack zone cosine angle is too large, in 3K it seems pike could attack without limit), the CA later suggested to set pike phalanx as charge defence formation that is how it work historically, and in realistic(there seems too many military historians misled by some historical events actually they don't know about ancient millary and science, I have many detailed disccusion about that but I wont't show them here) the pike wall is not frontly strong against infantry and even average under cavalry charge(simply we could check it by the accuracy of long range pike attack, the spearpoints' horizontal distance reduce their effective density, the mechanical structure of spearpoint is at disadvantage to stop shield like things pushing forward, there are also many results historically, Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of Asculum, Battle of Ravenna, Battle of Gaugamelashow show pike phalanx is not strong frontly and even weak to militia greek style shield wall troops and good fight will or well-armoured swordsmen.
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