my phalanx

i actually did this by an accident and find it very useful in city defence maps.

http://img85.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img85&image=Phalanx.jpg

I'm going to try that.

~:cheers: :charge:

I think I'd want to be one of the phalanx men towards the back of that formation.

Yeah I've had this happen as well. You can have about 500 men in the same space as a 100 man unit should be. I try not to use it because it's a glitch that gives me too high of a bonus vs the enemy.

If that doesnt work nothing will!

Ouch! That would hurt trying to attack there. Nasty amounts of pikes coming out of that formation. Heh.

I was going to write about that in a small phalangite guide. Two narrowstreched interwoven phalanxunits are incredibly stronger than two deeper ones, standing with no gap side by side. Both cover the same ground but the interwoven one is simply outstanding.

Made some interesting test already in the Demo with the SBI. I put three SBI units in two ranks into the same space and waited for the Romans after a brigde. After melee was joined no single Roman was able to come even close to the first line, I sustained to the repeated cav hopping charges all in all 5-6 losses and maybe only 1-2 from the infantry.

After a a battle which was best described as an outright slaughter I checked the individual killing stats and what did I see? All of the Phalanxes got a very similar number of kills and losses...

A incredibly usefull tactic for lowlevel phalangite units, especially with the Levy ones...

OA

I can imagine onager crews drooling at such a densely packed target.