New a strange thing happened in my Macedon campaign last night.

I was teaching the Pontiacs the foolinshness of being on my territory with a resounding whooping.

A phlanax front line of "royal pikemen" backed with plenty of gold weapon archers behind caused them to have an "insta-rout" on contact with my spears.

I had not put my horses exposed on the flanks due to heavy chariots on there side but with the mass rout going on I decided to ensure that there would not be much to fight in round two by hunting down everything with a white flashy banner.

No here is gets a bit bad. I had two family members in the stack along with two light lancers and two companion's. I sent them all to attack THROUGH my front line to the feeling Pontiacs (note that the spears were pointing the other way) when all of a sudden my horses (in all 6 units) start flashing red and even one of my generals is killed.

I am not sure if this was from the non-pointy endof the spears or from a last final salvo from the archers.

I have has casualties from running horses through friendy phalanx before but not from the back. Is this normal or was I unlucky?

ED