Hoplites?

[G. Septimus]

well, EB is more historically accurate, so the Spartans do that.(duuh, the Spartans never used the Phalanx)

[Maeran]

Welcome to the board Severus, since I've not seen you here before.

I think you're confusing your phalanxes.

Hoplites did indeed fight in a phalanx formation, but not the Macedonian style pike phalanx. There is plenty of discussion on the two styles on this forum and elsewhere on the net.

[The General]

Welcome to the board Severus, since I've not seen you here before.

I think you're confusing your phalanxes.

Hoplites did indeed fight in a phalanx formation, but not the Macedonian style pike phalanx. There is plenty of discussion on the two styles on this forum and elsewhere on the net.

I kind of thought he was referring to the well-known documentary about Spartan warfare in 5th century BC.

[mlc82]

What about using something like the "Hoplite Density mod" here?
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...hlight=density

They keep their spears (instead of the generic short pike), and the tighter formations make them look like they're using shieldwall (and fighting in a phalanx instead of individually) without the need of the special ability that the AI has no idea how to use.


TWFanatic's hoplite mod with the short_pike works as well (I wouldn't play EB without TWFanatic's mod before finding the above mod) , though the short pike weapon looks silly compared to EB's spears.