How to deal with the Iron Fang Pikemen with Cygnar

I've been playing a lot against Khador (like 80-90% of my last games) lately. My win ratio is about 50-50. However, I always want to improve my self and my army. My biggest issue for me is how to deal with the Black Dragon Pikemen. Who are they, what do they do and how do I stop them?

The Iron Fang Pikemen (or IFP for short) is the elite of Khador infantry with good stats for a good price. DEF 13 and ARM 14 can easily be improved with the help of "Iron Flesh" and "Shield Wall" order bringing them up to respected DEF 16 and ARM 18. For offence they have "Reach", "Combined Melee Attack" and "Critical: Knock Down". They're P+S 13 so they can even put a hurt into high ARM targets withou breaking a sweat.

With the addition of the Black Dragon Unit Attachment they get "Precision Strike", which will really devestate just about any jack they end up fighting. The officer is CMD 10 which makes in almost impossible for them to fail a command check, and they can spread out their formation to cover a large area. Finally they also get a "mini-feat" named Iron Zeal - which gives the unit +4 ARM and immune to knock down and stationary for a turn. This can allow them to make a run with ARM 18, or put them at ARM 22 for a turn in shield wall formation. A tough nut to crack.

To be honest, these guys have always been a problem for me, and if I can't get the alpha strike on them they'll likely to ruin my game. So how do you deal with them? Below are some usfull tricks and tactics that the forums have given me.

 - Covering Fire. Block their charge lane with POW 12. This will force them to use "Iron Zeal" if they still want to try and make a charge. With decent dice rolls even ARM 18 should fall to this.

- Mage Storm. Same tactic as above. A neat trick is to drop a Stormpod and use the Mage Storm to really get it to land where you want to.

- Trencher Commandos WA with "Deadeye". Scatterguns are POW 12 and with SP 8 have good odds on killing atleast a few of them.

- pStryker or Avenger. Big AoE knock down. Another way to force them to use Iron Zeal or to prevent them from getting the alpha strike.

- ATGM with Deadeye. With some skillful placement you can knock them back and out of Shield Wall formation.

- Harlan Versh ignores "Iron Flesh" and gets boosted attack and damage rolls against them.

- eEyriss can remove upkeep spells.

- Electro Leaps. Use a Storm pod or something that's immune to lightning damage. Get those leaps to bounce in the back arcs of the IFP.