Quote Originally Posted by The General
Directing their attacks against the V-formation pushing into the pike-mass would mean leaving their front with less spear points, thus opening the possibility of a breach there (perhaps also executed by the V-wedge formation?).

If I were to push through a phalanx front (for whatever reason), the V-wedge formation would be my initial idea, probably.
I suppose people are just making this a one on one situation, but in a battle, it'd be very hard to achieve something like that. The Wedge matter can be successful, simply put, but if you put them in the midst of a battle, what happens is that they form to attack a simple phalanx, probably leaving them open to other attacks. Ranged attacks, javelins and etcetera would quickly disrupt such an attack. Furthermore the phalanx would actually be making it's job of holding the enemy down (even if the enemy's objective was to break the formation), possibly long enough for an "assault" infantry or cavalry to charge in and cause massive casualties, which would be enhanced since such a formation would have the same downsides as the phalanx, since it would be a densely packed formation focussed on pushing foward, and if a cavalry charge came from the sides or rear mayhem and chaos would ensue.