I stopped playing Total War when I started Playing Pike and Shot, but looking at Field of Glory (basically same thing) they have something smart for How Pike works, its not really about the size of Spear... only, its also how you use them, so theres 2 units of Pikes Macedonians that historically was achived by enlogating the spear vs the classical Phalax of Hoplites, and the Swiss, which is my point here, there was very long spears at this time but they were not really used in a manner akin to those, aka, long spears in ranked formations.
Either way I know this doesn't really work here but was just wanting to say this, if Byzantine Empire somehow survived, they probably would have eventually gotten to pikes, and shot (not necessarly in this order) like the Russians did, but that would take time.
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