Shattered Kingdoms

Well, something is wrong when spear is the preferred two handed reach weapon considering polearms is a more restrictive skill.

I can understand your argument and I am now went from for this into an unsure neutral position.

Paladins and Hellions should use pole arms more than mercs and barbs. Reason being with fewer attacks they have giving up less by using a slower weapon. When combat casting kicks in they are only getting a single attack each around so they should be enjoying the slow powerful weapon with reach.
Polearms could keep their real world nature and be made more useful by becoming more accurate over faster.

A hellion/paladin using ANY weapon better than a merc? What the hell kind of stuff are you smoking? HELLIONS AND PALADINS HAVE SPELLS. Mercs and barbs NEED weapon proficiency. Do hellions have a skill that RELIES on having a slashing weapon? Yes. To use this from the second row, they WILL NEED A POLEARM. It's that simple.

Whoever brought up making polearms only faster, thats not what I meant. Polearms just need to be made better in general, make them slower, stronger, and more accurate for all I care, just increase their general stats. The best weapons from the second row should be polearms, not spears.

Yes, a mercenary or barb could increase his speed with a polearm with haste/specialize/fury. Except nobody is going too because spears are better.

Personal preference is just that, personal preference. You can't say that it's right or wrong.

Achilles used a spear in the production of Troy, not a polearm.

Game. Set. And Match.
Cyra wins!

In the history of Ancient Greece, as well as our mythology, typically Greek armies and so forth, preferred SPEARS and SHORT SWORDS.

In turn in medieval England, Pikes, Glaives and Polearms were used, along with the weapon of melee choice, Longsword.

In Egypt of the old, one could find Daggers, Sickles and Spears as well as several modified and smaller in size polearms.

In Persia of the old, Bow and Javelin/Spears were widely used.

In Oriental themes, Japan etc, the Katana Tando and Wakizashi were broadly used.

Bottom line is that one cannot consider one weapon better over the other.
Each culture adapted several weapon types that suited their army's fighting style, terrain, customs, training and so forth.
I cannot say that an Egyptian with a Sickle would be better over a medieval British Knight with a lance, or a Myrmidon with a spear and shortsword, and so on. Each had his own specialization and use for his weapon of choice.

Just my two cents

Achilles also had that whole foot thing, so we see where spears got him.

Also, you need to take a second and wipe your nose, there.