Quote Originally Posted by Xurr
Actually they sent chariots at him. He trained his troops to step aside and let them into the phalanx and then killed the 2 man crews. If you had followed those chariots closely with a ton of infantry it would have gone very differently.
Now that would have been a very interesting turn of events. By the way, before Alexander adapted the tactics for his men to create lanes and allow the chariots to enter the phalanx, were the horses just charging into the pikes? Was this successful? I imagine if he had to create the tactic, it must have been somewhat successful at the very least resulting in a lot of broken spears.