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Were knights on foot feared/intimidating to the average man-at-arms,

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Were knights on foot feared/intimidating to the average man-at-arms, foot soldier etc? 14th-15th century era. Was much effort done to avoid them or deal with them?
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knight with poleaxe = nasty
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Depends on your man at arms, some where mostly security guards of a castle who most harassed peasants, some where mercenaries who were criminals during peacetime and fought for pay during times of war and some where serfs who could barely hold a spear and point it in the right direction
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>>1332961
Not really, infantry of the time still relied heavily on densely packed formations. Individuals, regardless of how well equipped and trained, would be pretty ineffective against a shield-wall of mass of pikes unless the knights had appropriate numbers, and the average soldier would know this.
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A man-at-arms denoted someone who had access to the same kind of equipment as a typical knight, it wasn't a literal term, there is no way a serf could ever be one.
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