I read in a few threads here that just using spearmen and archers will work with Egypt. I have run a few trials with it on custom combat and it seems to me not to have a weakness. Both units are relatively cheap, the standard archer and available spearmen. I even tried the Nile spearmen and formed a square with my spearmen and had my archers inside. It worked. Only one spearmen unit routed. The spearmen are a good counter for everything that hits them except for ranged units and the archers can handle the ranged units. I am a relative noob to this game. Do you see any flaws with this combo? I realize that fleshing it out with a few chariots or desert cavalry might be nice to chase routers but does it sound like a winning combo to you? The chariots seem to cost more and you can't make a static defense with them. For this box formation to win I don't need to even manage the fight. As long as the spearmen stand their ground the archers will automatically slaughter the rest.