Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?

[kenclary]

Originally Posted by martinl

The problem is not that Spear-27 is incredible in combat, the problem is that the CP based character building engine in GURPS allows Spear-27 on a pretty slim budget if there is no requirement for the character to make sense.

Even then, it's not like something that's not-so-incredible in combat being affordable in CP is a bad, unbalanced thing. And it requires ignoring a fair amount of RAW guidelines.