controlling Phalanx

**antisocialmunky** · 07-17-2009, 21:06

You can attack phalangites with other phalangites. Its usually fine if phalanxes don't start stacking ontop of each other.

**Maion Maroneios** · 07-19-2009, 00:05

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

You can attack phalangites with other phalangites. Its usually fine if phalanxes don't start stacking ontop of each other.

That last thing always happens if at least one side is off guard mode. It begins as a pike-poking match and results in a chaotic push.

Maion

**antisocialmunky** · 07-19-2009, 00:35

I usualyl do off guard mode in phalanx vs phalanx. I just tell them to attack and don't mess with them. You really have to reduce the angle offset so you odn't end up with all your phalanxes 45 degrees. But then again I attack with boxes instead of rectangles so... yeah.

**Cute Wolf** · 07-19-2009, 08:52

Hold alt when you move a group of Phalanx... that way you made an effective walking spearwall... BTW, for an aggresive attack, phalanx are best ordered one by one to specific enemy...

**vartan** · 07-20-2009, 00:34

Hold alt only when moving or also when attacking?

**godsakes** · 07-20-2009, 09:37

Originally Posted by vartan

Hold alt only when moving or also when attacking?

the alt attack seem to work - the phalanx will point towards the enemy and to an extent push against them

**Maion Maroneios** · 07-20-2009, 11:54

I've never done tha Alt-thing myself to be honest. Or probably haven't done it conciously, so I may try it as well.

Maion

**Alsatia** · 07-20-2009, 12:53

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

Hold alt when you move a group of Phalanx... that way you made an effective walking spearwall... BTW, for an aggresive attack, phalanx are best ordered one by one to specific enemy...

But, when doing that, (or at least, when I do it) you leave your phalanx exposed on all sides depending on how they move. Perfect from an infantry or better yet, cavalry charge to the front or rear.....

EDIT: Don't try cav charge from front or rear... (except hammer and anvil)

**GenosseGeneral** · 07-20-2009, 22:05

something else about phalanxes: do they get any boni or mali while fighting up- or downhill? I wondered really in my ptolemaioi campaign this night, when my experienced pezhtairoih (written correctly?) where slaughtered by some AS pantopadoi phalangitai and even started too flee after being decimated to around 20 man while only around 25 AS phalngitai where killed

**A Very Super Market** · 07-20-2009, 22:33

If you are fighting on H or VH battle difficulty, the AI will get bonuses for their units anyways.

All units gain some sort of bonus when fighting with the high ground.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-21-2009, 01:22

Originally Posted by GenosseGeneral

something else about phalanxes: do they get any boni or mali while fighting up- or downhill? I wondered really in my ptolemaioi campaign this night, when my experienced pezhtairoih (written correctly?) where slaughtered by some AS pantopadoi phalangitai and even started too flee after being decimated to around 20 man while only around 25 AS phalngitai where killed

Sometimes the pikes point up or down sometimes straight foward on an incline, that screws up their attacks.