Tips dealing with pike phalanxes?

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

I found phalanxes to be too tough in EB - so I went into the EDU file and reduced the shield value of all phalanx units by 2 points (usually taking the value down from 5 to 3). This made them easier to kill, and no longer completely invulnerable to missiles from the front.

This seems more accurate to me since phalangites have a much smaller shield than hoplites, so shouldn't get as much benefit from it.