Quote Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus View Post
@ Fondor Yards, Ezephkiel:

Yes I leave them in guard mode and let them be attacked. That worked best back in 0.81, and in 1.0 also. The problem with switching guard mode off is that your line will get disrupted then. They'll start wheeling around and turn towards the center of the enemy syntagma, and that looks weird. The enemy then starts to cut down the exposed flanks of each pike unit.

Plus I believe to have observed that the usual enemy strategos' suicidal charges against your pikes are nowadays less suicidal. Wherever the enemy general is attacking your line, it's almost sure that he and his surrounding troops will cut a hole in your line.


@ Tellos Athenaios:

Well, 6 men deep formation get torn apart even faster than 8 men deep formation, so no I don't think that could be part of the problem.
The same for 6 men deep among the enemy as well (basically reverting to Vanilla values) ? Or did you do that already?