well i guess there will be seldom a chance to shoot with slingers at Pedites from behind.. with the mobile Pahlavans Horse Archers i did this all the time ..very effective. ...exhausting the enemy, shooting in their rear, ..sounds not very honorable ..well yea what to do else with numeral overwhelming armies.

to hurt the Pedites the katapeltai (as long the terrain allows it) are ideal ..but as mentioned above although they lost 12% from their best armored soldiers in this battle - afterwards the difficulty was how to beat them with the rest of the army.

if chance to get some of these naked wild men infantry i recruit them (also with mercenary cretan archers) but i guess its more about how to use the phalanxes together with other elite infantry and how to deploy them.

..well after my first post - i decided, however to open a new front in southern italy (no timetravel) ..the AI for the romani allows it - they act not very intelligent - a welcome compensation for their immense morale bonus in vh battles - ..so now i conquered Taras and the rich Rhegion - (the AI concentrated the bulk of the romani troops in the north ..instead of taking back Segestica they divided and even sent troops to the cold and dark barbarian provinces) ..i just try to defend Segestica but conquer the romans from the south... seems that this will work.

but anyhow - with the Pahlavan campaign this Makedonian one is the most exciting campaign for me until now with EB - ..really surprised that it will be that challenging .. i like vh Battles :-)