Quote Originally Posted by Phalanx300 View Post
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.
It's called a noob box by those who let their enemy form one......