Talk:Condottiero/@comment-34012722-20180125092849/@comment-27726014-20190328191229

Roledero's weren't used against pikes. Their short swords were pretty useless against pikes. They usually needed the greatswordsmen to handle that job for them. Once the pikes were aside the rodelero's would charge in to cut down the enemy and sow chaos. Then once chaos was achieved the cavalry would charge in and deliver victory.

An advance of the rodelero was that it could deliver more damage in a minute than troops armed with other weapons. The issue was that they couldn't defeat heavily armored opponents.