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I'm attached to mercenary Swiss Pike company in the high middle ages. We step through a wormhole and wind up squaring off against a Macedonian phalanx. Forget who wins. Has much changed in the use of a pike? Or are we essentially the same infantry a couple millenia apart?

by /u/RexAddison in /r/AskHistorians

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