Quote Originally Posted by Martin Greywolf View Post
A direct charge into a pike formation will, if the pikes don't rout, get you a mutual slaughter at best, and cavalry will come off worse in this exchange as they are the more expensive soldier type.
And most importantly if the formation hasn't broken, the musketeers and cannon will shoot you or your horse to death long before.

This is why you have musketeers and why pikemen do not fight alone. Pike and shot, neither works alone for very good reasons.