So I did a migration faction. Took my ass from Athens and sailed to Massalia, and renamed myself Masalia. It's tons of fun except for one problem. The Romans are aggressive as hell! Nonstop attacks and they somehow kicked out the Gauls and Epeiros out of Taras quickly and just focus on me. Had to use FD to bring some control back to the region.

Anyways back to my question. Is it just me or do the Koinon Hellon Spartan and Athen body gaurds suck on the walls? Maybe I am just using them wrong. I put them on guard mode in front of the leaders. Triari popped up and started pushing my bodygaurds back. I had a group of heavy skirmishers hit the Trairi from the other side and they stll managed to defeat my general and heavy skirmishers.

On the other side of the gate, I had a spartan group hold ground on defense mode in front of a siege tower loaded with Elite Italian unit. My Spartans got completely toast.

Are they just not a good unit for defending walls or am I using them wrong? This migration to Massalia has left me with no money to field an army. Best I could do is use my 4FM's+1 Cretan Archer+1 Heavy Skirmisher. And this is with 3 towns in control =-/