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[ReluctantSamurai]

I didn't count on literally sitting there for 20 real life minutes on 6x speed, lookng at 2 blobs (one of hoplites, one of Hastati) pushing into each other in a narrow street choke point.

In this case, hoplites vs. hastatii. In R1, this combat would've been over in two minutes or less, and no guesswork as to who wins....the other end of the spectrum.

As to elite hoplites vs. elite hoplites, the first Battle of Mantinea in 418BC during the Peloponnesian War was almost entirely a hoplite conflict with roughly 17,000 hoplites on both sides involved.....and it "only" took 6-8 hours to resolve the battle

So considering a mere handful of troops, by comparison, 2 hours is excessive. Maybe Myth's experience is a 'one-off' anomaly, so the verdict is still out, I guess