Quote Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah View Post
Epeiros has the coolest-looking thureophoroi in all of EB, btw. I tend to avoid phalangitai, too, but I do enjoy using a few hoplites to hold the center as an anvil while I have thureophoroi and similar troops performing crazy battlefield maneuvers on the flanks. If you don't plan on using phalangitai as your backbone line troops, you might as well use thureophoroi to their best advantage as flexible, fast-moving spearmen. It's the total opposite of having a line of phalangitai standing immobile against the enemy.

Basileus ton Basileon gave a great screenie of a nice Epeirote army without Alexandrian phalanxes.
I'd add some Illyrioi Thureophoroi into an army like that. They are like a more flexible, less armored version of the Hellenic ones.