Quote Originally Posted by Phalanx300 View Post
When the Romans attacked Corinth they faced them, Roman right flank was broken . Though those were the reformed Hoplites.

Hoplites fight face to face you know, not 6 metres apart from their enemy. As a hoplite your enemy would be like 10 cm away from you.


Watchmen, there's no way a Pilum would be able to penetrate a Hoplite shield, only ballistas were able to do such a thing.
You could always just refer to the accounts of the Samnite Wars and the Wars of Italian unification before the Punic War. Rome used to fight in a hoplite style but they transitioned to the looser manipular style after getting schooled by the Samnites they adopted that idea from.

A great deal of it had to do with some of the terrain that the Samnites fought on rather than outright fighting power though.