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Stabby things you can let go of quickly have been the standard for killing thinks larger than you since humans first decided we wanted to know what mammoths taste like. Also tricking people into various traps, and poison. I could see the little people raising porcupines in order to harvest...

One of the reasons that stabbing weapons like the pike became popular at the end the medieval era into the reinsurance was because of plate armor. Giants have big eyes and big joints. The back of the knees and the crotch are both vulnerable even with the best plade do to geometry.

Not at all, giants would still have a hard time with a pike formation in field combat, and are not any good for urban combat or occupation.

I think you are missing the foundation of warfare. Regular infantry exist to occupy a location and claim it as under control, every military unit exists to manipulate infantry either by helping your own infantry maneuver, preventing the movement of enemy infantry, or forcing the movement of...

It would be interesting to get into the topic of pay for various types of powerful individuals in the fantasy military. You have various heroes that are essentially just soldiers but better in every way and will just not die. You have various flavors of wizards who want large sums of pay for...

I think you misunderstand my point. A nation will use peasant levies not because of preference, but because they cannot afford better in the numbers needed. If you can afford a regular army, you will use that instead.

That depends entirely on how much money you have. Ultimately the point of infantry is to occupy space. Being able to do anything more than sit on a piece of land and wave a flag is nice, but that is the main job of regular infantry.

This is why chainmail remained popular despite its difficulty and flaws. Chain-mail is flexible and and can be used by people of different sizes. The other popular high quality armor is the brigandine, which offers nearly as much protection as plate armor but is much easier to make because it...