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no, no, no no, no.
Pikes are great units on paper.
They are also priceless in practice. I'm thinking compact D here.
Imagine 700k pike and 400k archers. Defender has 183 intel. your pikemen have the same defense swordsmen would have.
They also have much more attack. Usually this is not useful in CD, but it comes in handy against mechs. During a ram attack, what would you prefer to have: 700k swordsmen who just sit there and slowly die, or 700k pikemen who die quicker but deal a lot more damage at a greater range?
Not to mention the obvious fact that pikemen, although more expensive to build (same price as archers), are considerably cheaper to feed. They are also quick to rebuild, as you've mentioned. They are much more effective against cavalry attacks. They are targetted first; learn to use that to your advantage.
BTW: i hate scouts. they eat like pigs, they die like flies, I ave yet to see a situation in which the scoutbomb is the most efficient solution, so I keep scouts for farming purposes ONLY and get some other scouthugger to do my scouting.
We disagree on a lot of fundamentals.