Spear Sergeants are the backbone of your armies. Stronger than Dark Age Spearmen, they are the hardest-hitting melee infantry, and are also endowed with lots of armour and HP. Make no mistake, however, as they easily overtaken by missile units — in particular by cavalry archers, siege machines and skirmishers — and in some cases can be outflanked by faster-moving light infantry or even polearms units which are cheap and can deal massive amounts of damage to units in tight formation. Nevertheless, their long weapons and their endurance means that they are adept at taking out cavalry and towers (albeit bastions, built by factions such as China and Russia will slaughter infantry to a man). Armies of Spear Sergeants however are costly to equip and maintain, and so you may prefer to recruit lig