Ogniem i Mieczem - By Fire and Sword

I'm sure the answer will be in the book, but I'm curious. Did Cossacks ever fight with pikes or half-pikes in this period? And if half-pikes, about how long would they be?

I believe DBR includes Cossack pikemen, and I know at least one manufacturer make Cossacks with pikes. But apparently there is disagreement, and of course being American I have no access to sources that would say one way or the other.

I've already modeled one unit of cossacks with pikes, but it would be easy enough to cut them down to a more accurate size, or replace them with peasant weapons.

Spear used by Cossacks was called 'spisa' (which in that period was also Polish word used to describe pike by the way)) but it wasn't pike. Cossacks lacked training to fight with pike, also their way of warfare wasn't meant for such weapon as pike at all.

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Elsewhere on this forum, spisa are described as 270-330 cm, so I suppose cutting their pikes in half should solve my problem.

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One You looking for is under 'Kopia turecka lub spisa' so 3 to 3.5 cm.

I just realized, I should probably double these lengths for 28mm miniatures...

How does this look?

Where did that 28mm Cossack come from?

I would guess that the Cossack spear needs to be 8'-9' long at the most, your spear looks to be 12'13' so still a bit too long but if it looks right then leave it.