It's called a noob box by those who let their enemy form one......Its how such a tactic is called on vanilla multiplayer, I used to play alot of vanilla multiplayer. As the name suggests, its mosty used by noobs.
Strategically it is a good tactic though, Alexander also used some sort of semi box at Gaugamela.
I doubt that in the middle of battle Phalangites would be able to form a box, at Cynophefalai(sp) it took very long to just form up lines, let alone a box.
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