Quote Originally Posted by DisruptorX
Actually, if you don't allow them to flank you, Phalanx will slaughter cavalry, infantry, or elephants in seconds. Yes, Elephants vs Pikemen = dead elephants. I was playing as Pontus and stuck a unit of pikemen in my caste gate, they slaughtered over 50 chariots and over 100 cavalry, who just touched the pikes and died horrible deaths. Phalanx is god.
Nice in theory. Doesn't work in practice except when the AI does a suicide rush into the front of a phalanx, or if you have a gate/bottlneck. The other 99 times the phalanx is flanked. I even have had a "suicide daimyo" charge kill one of my phalanx units...they swirled around its flanks after the initial head on. That was the last mercenary hoplite I bought.

I wiped out a nearly full stack hoplite army using only half a dozen round shield cav and two missile units. What a slaughter. I lost about a dozen men. This was on "very hard."