How did the battles between two groups of pikemen looked like? Were there some people trying to flank them while the pikemen were poking each other or was it just a huge pokefest?
>>343265
a lot of guys trying to stick other guys with their pointy end.
now that I think about it, it sounds awfully homoerotic
>>343265
Are yuo me? I was just looking up the concepts of "push of pike" and "bad war"
Anyway, here's some things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTYuYxmICGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbhANeJL_T4
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/22lrkx/push_of_pike/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2yw9qv/what_happens_when_a_renaissance_pike_square/
>>343265
>swiss
Those are moors m9
>>343290
They are not.
>>343307
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Ferrer-Dalmau
>>343317
Thats a Spanish hyper realist painter.
>>343319
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rocroi
>>343335
Thats a XVII century battle between the Spanish Empire and the French Kingdom.
>>343359
Exactly, those pikemens are spanish, not swiss
>>343265
I always imagine how pike on pike action would look like
>Lets walk slowly against each other and poke each other with sticks,
How the fuck are you defending from that?
At least the diadochii gave you the damned decency of having shields.
>>343362
I know, and? Still no Moors.
>>343290
They're Spanish soldiers at Roccroi
>>343265
One of the pike formations would advance. There were different kinds of pike formations but usually the musketeers were on the wings of each brigade while the pikes made up a block in the center. The musketeers might either fire at each other the whole time or save their fire for one devastating volley at 10-20 yards. Then the musketeers would either draw swords or use their muskets as clubs and close into close combat with the enemy. The two sides would stab and beat each other until one side ran away.
There wasn't much flanking because the flanks were the domain of cavalry. The only way infantry could be flanked by other infantry would be if part of the line collapsed, they were ambushed or outnumbered.
>>343399
It was a joke you autist
>>343402
Lol u failed
Here's another picture of the battle above. Clearly not much room to try and flank anyone. You either marched straight ahead or straight backwards.
>>343402
Unfunny, unnoriginal and /int/olerant, and?
