How to fight a pike phalanx without another phalanx? Help!!!

[king of thracia]

1. Refuse contact
2. Isolate phalanx
3. Pour javelins and arrows into the back
4. Simultaneous destruction

[fleaza]

you cowards! pluck up some courage and smash those phalanx from the front! i swear, the hai bodyguards are so incredibly powerful. sometimes i feel like charging the phalanx from the front. when i do do it i take more damage obviously but its still quite heroic.

[Knight of Ne]

you cowards! pluck up some courage and smash those phalanx from the front! i swear, the hai bodyguards are so incredibly powerful. sometimes i feel like charging the phalanx from the front. when i do do it i take more damage obviously but its still quite heroic.

I tend to find that this strategy, although heroic, tends to get my FM's killed very quickly. (And sods law dictates that it will be your good FM's that bite the dust.)

I tend to find that fast moving infantry are good for fighting phalanxes, if you can get a phalanx to chase them you can turn a phalanx and expose those juicy rears to cavalry or archers. Albeit this does depend on getting the stupid ai to chase you.

When outnumbered i try to outmanouvre the phalanx and engage all but the phalanxes, which (if all goes well) will leave the phalanxes with no support and vulnerable to flank and rear charges.

p.s. None of these tactics are garenteed to work well, if at all sometimes.
Knight of Ne