That's why I usually turn guard mode off, to simulate a more "realistic" phalanx. Apart from that, I usually too use them mostly against other phalanx factions which - playing mostly hellenistic factions - I encounter often.
Re: Surprisingly bad units
That's why I usually turn guard mode off, to simulate a more "realistic" phalanx. Apart from that, I usually too use them mostly against other phalanx factions which - playing mostly hellenistic factions - I encounter often.
Originally Posted by NickTheGreek
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Re: Surprisingly bad units
What does that do? Never tried doing that. I'm talking about pike phalanxes BTW.
Re: Surprisingly bad units
Me too. Hoplites I call hoplites. ;)
Putting guard mode off makes the phalanxes less impenetrable and they get fatigued and thus take more casualties afaik. I do this to actually "simulate" a more realistic battle between pike phalanxes. Since in the long term I'll probably lose against the AI phalanx (being in guard mode by default) I'll have to win on the flanks to decide the battle, which afaik is the usual strategy in Successor warfare. Kind of my own personal Successor warfare battle house rule.
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