[EB] Phalanx Noob Box - And how to beat it?

[antisocialmunky]

My old Rome Solution:

Get lots of Pedites Extraordinarii or something similarly heavily armored/densely packed/AP. I hear Getai units work well too. Bring some nakeds/chariots and at least one archer so you can stack the fire arrow bonus.

Stack several of them ontop of each other, put them in guard mode and order them to run behind and repeat the order if the units start breaking formation.

When they are half way through, take them out of guard. If they are in a box, you'll have to do this to multiple sides at once. Phalangites in EB are otherwise too powerful for any sort of frontal attack except maybe by a deeper formation of better phalangites with guard mode off.