Pike to Shotte Ratio

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w_michael
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Pike to Shotte Ratio

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I've looked and I haven't found anything other than a 1:1 ratio of musketeers to pikemen in Parliamentarian regiments. By the time of the ECW the ideal ratio was considered to be 2 musketeers for every pikeman, or 2:1. Regiments may have varied from this due to lack of equipment or battle losses, but the New Model Army regiments of Fairfax's army would certainly have had a 2:1 ratio, but they still have the 1:1 ratio in the Naseby scenario.

Is this an overlooked tactical factor that certainly differentiates Parliamentarian infantry regiments from Royalist ones.

EDIT: I have now seen 2:1 ratio infantry regiments in the Earl of Essex's army in the Tutorials. I had forgotten that, and was surprised when I looked an NMA regiments. The 2:1 regiments were not as common as I imagined.
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