Idk where the mace-bearers are coming from, I also don't know what that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace-bearer
"A mace-bearer, or macebearer, is a person who carries a mace, either a real weapon or ceremonial". .
We talked about maceman. As it is shown in the pick, it's a one handed one
It's NOT a mace. This is a Renaissance axe, which is persistently and incorrectly considered a short poleaxe.
I believe, 2 handed maces weren't a Battlefield setup... We also don't have context for the time period.
You seem to be very religious. Because
1. It is the weapon that "hombres" carry that is used without a shield in almost all images.
By the way, find at least one melee fighter with a shield here. The only shield bearer in the crowd is a crossbowman.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Полэкс#/media/Файл:Retours_Charles_VI.jpg
2. In the same images, we can find characters working in the same way with a real mace.
3. And this is a special case, because a huge pile of long two-handed maces and chain maces is known from images, descriptions and archeology. And mostly – just for the renaissance.
At the same time, since you are from Hungary, I seriously doubt that you do not have stories in your school textbook about the difficult relations of the Hussites with the knights, or at least such pictures.
4. Long two–handed chain maces (flail) are, among other things, a variant of the armament of the hombres de armas proper.
1500++ the shields got symbolic yes.
So you think that shields began to be abandoned 25 years after the appearance of the arquebus and mobile artillery? The picture with the total absence of shields is the second half of the 15th century.
But in-game maceman appears much earlier, further, in 1500
1. In the game, it appears after caravels, pikemen and the Globe Theater and on the same level as the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Cathedral.
2. How do you even manage to determine the exact date in a game where ground artillery appears AFTER frigates, simultaneously with steam and battleships, and before that, post-Napoleonic infantry and cuirassiers coexist with trebuchets? And sailing battleships and grenadiers appear there too. And at the same time, access to the Statue of Liberty opens. Share a secret.