Polearm shieldwall feat

[LankyOgre]

Is there a feat that allows an individual to ignore an ally when attacking with a reach weapon? Would such a feat be overpowered? I want to design an encounter in which a group of soldiers are arranged in two lines. The front soldier has a shield and the rear soldier has a polearm of some sort. But the soft cover rule kind of makes that not work well.

[Ciaran Barnes]

For the coat of a feat, we should ignore the attack penalty and give them something too.

[Gishou]

Maybe make it so that they have no penalty and make it so if an ally is using a tower shield for cover they also get the cover from attacks coming from that angle.

[Ciaran Barnes]

The polearm user would already getting a cover bonus from the shield user, if the polearm user was being attacked from that direction. Something else maybe.

[Magda Luckbender]

You might be looking for Paired Opportunists. Most reach weapons were historically considered defensive weaponry. AoOs represent this effect in Pathfinder. Paired Opportunists enhances this effect.

Paired Opportunists (Combat, Teamwork) wrote:

Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of opportunity against creatures that you both threaten. Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.

This would work for some fighting style combinations, but not others. A well trained pike formation defines this feat. This would also work well for Phalanx Soldier Fighters.