I've been playing EB for a while now and it's been great overall! However, in preparing to start a campaign as Makedonia there are a few lingering issues I thought I would ask about and see if anyone had any solutions. I was not sure if this was the right place to put it, since it is not a bug or anything, so I dropped it here.

1) Is there any way to lower or (better yet) remove the "Distance to Capital" public order penalty? I know that I could move my capital around but changing it every time I capture a city just seems no fun (and I tend to enjoy a roleplaying aspect to a campaign, so it just makes no sense to move it for no reason like that). Given the objectives for a Makedonia campaign, Pella sucks as a capital.

2) Playing around Vanilla Rome for a little while, I noticed that phalanx units will sort of shove their pikes forward to attack enemies, and in doing so they will do a fantastic job of killing anything that attacks them from the front. This is especially noticeable if you defend a bridge with some Royal Pikes or Silver Shields. However, defending a bridge with pezhetairoi in EB, ten times out of ten in my experience, merely results in the enemy waltzing right through the sarissas to engage my soldiers up close; the phalanx will not do any of that 'shoving'. Is there any way to get that feature from Vanilla back in the game (perhaps with reduced effectiveness)?

Thank you for any help you can give.