Hoplitai too weak ?

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I feel necessary to remind you here that Roman armies of the period were, for all intents and purposes, 100% levies. That's what "legion" means you know.

Also, the PMs (as well as the Hypaspistai) carry the aspis rather than the rather smaller, though similar, shield the phalangites use (so their hand is left clear to hold the pike).

They were levies yes but their units were put into experience class, I doubt you could class Triarii as levies.

And they did use the Phalangite shield, in EBI they use the Aspis but look at their preview in EB2, they use the Phalangite shield.

So, they started to (a). rely on even more cumbersome pikes/ equipment and (b). the macedonian army as a whole started to rely on the phalanx as a battle winner because their supporting units were lacking.

If this doesn't call for inflexibility nothing does, dude.

As Maion said before, you can't compare the Legion and the Phalanx, the point is that just comparing the Phalanx alone is like comparing a Legion without its reserves. A Macedonian Phalanx without its support will fall eventually, as the Romans showed.

Oh and Dutch, I read somewhere you wanted to start a Greek Reenactment group? Is that right?