It can be done with any faction that can recruit archers. Obviously, some factions get better archers than others...Forester War Band, as mentioned...Germanic or Scythian Chosen archers...even a group of merc Cretan's.So yes it can be done, at least with Gaul and in campaign
The method is the same...skirmish with a main line, and strike from the flanks or rear with reserves. However.....if the full stack of hoplites happens to be Armored Hoplites or Spartans.......good luck! I've managed to make pin-cushions of Armored Hoplites once, in such a scenario. It wasn't a full stack (six or eight units, IIRC), and they were attempting to assault a group of five or six Cretans with three gold chevrons standing on a very, very high hill just outside Sardis. I didn't kill them all, and those that survived, routed.
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