Just had my first big battle against Carthage, and noticed something very worrying. Although I did a little editing to allow myself to play with the imperial units from the beginning (I loves me some imperial legionaries), I found that my normal strategy - throw spears and attempt to surround - doesn't work QUITE as well as I thought it would against their phalanxes. (They.... would... not... rout! Even with my elite light infantry (I love those guys. They're like Romani special forces!) attacking the rear.) Now understand that they SHOULD have routed - I had them surrounded by multiple powerful units and their general was a long way away. This means my campaign against the successor factions will be *expletive* EXPENSIVE. Any advice on how to get phalanxes to rout quickly in EB, or was this battle more of a fluke?
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