How Good Are Pikemen and Halberdiers in HoMM3: HotA?

As per your request :)
How good are Pikemen and Halberdiers in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Horn of the Abyss expansion (Homm3 HotA)? Let's find out!
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00:00 Rules & Pikemen
07:48 Halberdiers
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The unit tested will face six trials:
- Castle Attack
- Battle vs. A Horde
- Battle vs. Elite
- Battle vs. Missile Units
- Battle vs. Army
- Castle Defense
They will score points from these, as well as from abilities in campaign map, construction chain costs and from the army costs. The army is determined by 20 weeks of growth. The tested units will be controlled by human, and tactics can be used.
I hope you enjoy the video :)
If you are a fan of Heroes 3 or play the game, check this video out. You learn new things about the game in terms of unit cost-effectiveness especially regarding Pikemen and Halberdiers.
#heroesofmightandmagic3 #hornoftheabyss #heroes3

[@RllXeron]

Shocked how Good they fought vs horde. Halbs Were close to obtain 2 more points wasnt it?

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. That an additional point was close from Castle Attack. The Castle defense was another but there it was quite far off still. :)

[@RllXeron]

@@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu Phenomenall. Now I cant wait for centaur captains

[@Jutrzen]

In WoG - Pikemen have a breath attack (2 hexes like Dragons), fear immunity and deal +60% dmg to Black Knights and Dread Knights. Halberdiers loose the breath attack, but have 20% to block 65% dmg dealt to them.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Seems rather nice abilities :) Thanks for the comment.

[@aquilesneto11]

How i miss this game, me and my frieñds used tô play all night

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, it is really nice in hotseat :)

[@Lesatu]

It's routinely on sale on GOG; I picked it up there for like, $3.

[@Canuovea]

Well, they did surprisingly well on castle attack. The dragons just couldn't help hitting their own there too.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, that helped quite a bit :)

[@aaronmadders]

Really does emphasise how bad all the units below it are when a t1 superpasses them. I don't expect any of the t1s to perform well in the battles. But I'm curious for centaurs and gremlins. But most of all, Sprites. The speed and no retal could see them perform rather well I think

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, those two are interesting contenders. And agreed about the performance :)

[@franzmuller7446]

You forgot to add the additional point from castle attack to the halbediers in the scoreboard.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Actually, I forgot to remove it from the result after castle attack. 😅

[@Sonyhellyes]

Why do pikeman look so different? Do they look like that in Hota version? Why have they changed the appearance?

[@crossmodulation9730]

They gave them a modern look in HotA.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, the appearance has been changed to HotA :)

[@hungrymikepencetd5686]

Wraiths performed much better and are much more valuable, and for a level 1 creature, those guys cost a lot. I would put them in the imp category, where they belong ;p.

[@qualityoldhomm-rd3yu]

Well, their performance says a bit otherwise ;D Thanks for the comment.