Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Juice
If only you could enable hard tactics with medium unit statistics....
Thats the whole point in the difficulty level above medium. It's made more difficult by taking the average stat for any given unit and increasing to a degree that it no longer reflects its true value. Now the unit in question is no longer a typical cavalry unit or typical infantry unit, it is a SUPER unit.

Nothing goes through a Phalanx. Nothing ever did, never will. Flank it, sure. Shoot it, that works too. On default, the game accurately models this.