Fighting phalanx

[fallen851]

To go with my previous post about the wonders of overloading one flank and refusing the other, here is a replay of it working to a T in multiplayer (alas it is Vanilla).

Now I am using Carthage and using Phalanxes, but my opponent is using Macedon who have Phalanxes with much longer spears, and also they have 240 men per unit against my 160 man units. They are also Royal Phalanxes, which while not as good as my Sacred Band Infantry that I stack to my left flank, they are much better than my Peoni Infantry. Finally, this tactic would have worked if I had been playing nations without Phalanx Hoplite units too, like Rome or Germania.

You'll see in the this battle how I overrun his right flank, then how when he tries to help I stop him, and finally when he tries to over extend my right, I am able to hit his units from the side.