Best Elite Phalanx

**Ca Putt** · 08-20-2009, 16:09

well, speaking as KH player and thus mostly encountered all of them(tho the Malkedon one not too often ;) ) I have to say I fancy the Epirote ones most dangerous. It may just be me (or the fact that I had to fight them with haploi, Sphendotai and Hippakontistai whereas I fought the others with Spartans, Rhodians Thorakitai and Thrakioi Prodromoi

) but they seemed to stand out much more from the Pezhetairoi/Pantadopiai masses who fall much faster, you could practically hear my Soldiers warning each other to stay clear of those guys.

**DaciaJC** · 08-20-2009, 16:16

Meh, all the units listed fall easily beneath the blade of a falx... I picked the Elite African Pikemen because they remind me of black widows.

**Head Casse** · 08-20-2009, 16:32

Originally Posted by Frontline1944

Meh, all the units listed fall easily beneath the blade of a falx

I'm pretty sure we're all aware of how dangerous a falx armed unit can be to close ordered armoured infantry.

I'm also pretty sure the OP wasn't asking for opinions about that.

**DaciaJC** · 08-20-2009, 17:56

Originally Posted by Head Casse

I'm pretty sure we're all aware of how dangerous a falx armed unit can be to close ordered armoured infantry.

I'm also pretty sure the OP wasn't asking for opinions about that.

No, but if you bothered to look past the obvious, you might have realized that in mentioning the falx, I spelled out my opinion on which is the best elite phalanx: there is none, for all are equally vulnerable when facing the falx [or other AP weapons]. A different perspective, is all.

And to top it all off, I did pick a "best elite phalanx", the EAP, whom I chose merely because of their colors.

**Apázlinemjó** · 08-20-2009, 18:08

Chalkaspidai, not because of their looks or stats, but their nice skins. (Actually they are the worst elite phalanx in the game imho.)

**A Terribly Harmful Name** · 08-20-2009, 18:42

Originally Posted by Frontline1944

No, but if you bothered to look past the obvious, you might have realized that in mentioning the falx, I spelled out my opinion on which is the best elite phalanx: there is none, for all are equally vulnerable when facing the falx [or other AP weapons]. A different perspective, is all.

And to top it all off, I did pick a "best elite phalanx", the EAP, whom I chose merely because of their colors.

Well we could always say that the blade of a falx falls easily against Toxotai anyway

.

I'll have to agree myself the Chaonion are the best.

**HunGeneral** · 08-20-2009, 21:18

Well I voted argyraspides. Playing alot as Saka I learned to respect these guys for there endurance - they are always the last unit to rout and are the hardest to wair down...
As Arche Seleukeia I learned to value these troppers as the elite of all my phalangites, pluss because of there huge AOR - From Baktria till Makedonia they will gather under the royal banner if called upon by the Basileus to Basileion.

**Companion Cavalry** · 08-20-2009, 21:44

I pick the argyraspidai and kleurochon agema. In custom battles I 1v1'ed
every elite phalanx in the game, and these two always came out on top.

And for all the people voting for the African Elite Pikemen, consider the other options as well.
Just because they're the only phalanx you run into in your Romani campaigns doesn't mean they're the best.