Quote Originally Posted by Sethik
In my experience if you follow up a Cav charge against a phalanx with an infantry unit the phalanx gets shredded. The horse will take loses but they have enough momentum and shock to weaken the formation. The follow up infantry should then have no problem finishing the job.

As for the archers part, it might be that the Romans either got too close or were too far, but I've never had that happen to me (then again I've never had archers while defending a seige.)

The only bugs I've experienced is randomly crashing to the desktop (usually when I'm in the Senate panel) and maybe some minor pathfinding glitches.

I haven't played the Greeks yet, but I starting to wonder if the Romans are a bit overpowered. They have more units than any other faction and get really good starting infantry. Later on in the game they become practically unstoppable.

Have you tried another faction? I personally don't like phalanx units as they are slow and become practice targets for missile units. Any horse missile unit will slaughter them. Archers and skirmishers won't do that bad either.
In these battles there were no Cavalry up front - they always streamed in through their troops and somehow they found the space to get a charge going and leap over my soldiers without sustaining many, if any casualties. The archers started by not doign anything and wouldn't do anything the entire battle - The Romans start off too far away and come closer - no arrows left any quivers no matter what kind of swears I uttered. I think I need to resort to voodoo or withcraft next time...

I played as the Julii - they were Gods of Gaul, nothing coudl stand up to them - that was on Hard/Hard.

In the Greek Campaign I was at war (unprovoked war) with the following:

1) All of the Roman Factions
2) Carthage
3) Macedon

Even after Carthage and Scipii were at war with eachother Carthage wouldn't Ceasefire - well no biggie there because Carthage is weaker than a little baby in RTW.

I wanted to LOVE the Greeks - they were supposed to be my favourite faction - no dice - the game totally ruins them. I made no mistakes with my unit setup in either of those battles, it was flawless - but they rolled over me like so much cookie dough...