https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afqhBODc_8U
^ Likely to be of interest to anyone wrt spears vs swords, ran across it today.
My impression from it is that one-on-one, a spearman has a big advantage unless the swordsman has a large shield and knows how to use it -- or unless the spearman is also trying to use a shield, which is just disastrous. Between that and watching the group fights trying to simulate army combat (but the spear/shield wielders were pretty inept), I feel like I understand better how conscript units could be butchered if they broke formation.