Hiring Illyrian mercenaries (available E. Adriatic shore), and fortifying Light Infantry Mercenary warbands can also balance your army.
It is important though, not to let the Warband tire through constantly having to run around, though they are fast they do fatigue and perform poorly if near exhaustion. A combo lets Spear Warband distract, the Javelin men strike into flank and rear, then once softened up, a phalanx can be finished off by Warband charging from rear.
The spearmen help, if you need to establish cavalry superiority. Early in battle you avoid engagement, but provoke enemy cavalry forces, then retreat where the warband can intercept them.
Both units like woods, which encumber Phalanx, but makes command & control trickier, as the RTW units have no way to be told not to impale themselves in frontal assaults on Phalanxes, so require constant baby sitting.
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