Easily Capturing a city

[jirisys]

You must ALWAYS flank the enemy if you can ... judging by the pics you posted you could have saved up a unit (of principes???-the guys standing at the very back of the formation) and flank the AI while the enemy was engaging your phallanx. It is very important to use crossroads (and open spaces) to your advantage by luring the enemy forth to your phallanx and then using some high-lethality sword unit to flank him from the left or right.

the guys at the back were hastati and h. samnitici, at the middle they were rorarii, but the problem was they didn't came out of the plaza, so i had to use some cavalry to lure them to the phalanx, but id did flank them while they were attacking, i flanked them with all my cavalry, they died 1 per second, it was lethality at it's best, also:

It is very important to use crossroads (and open spaces) to your advantage by luring the enemy forth to your phallanx

it is also important to use tight spaces, such as the tiny roads so that if they tried to attack the phalanx they couldn't flank or rear them, since they were heavily protected by all sides