Quote Originally Posted by SpencerH
I couldnt find the thread where I read this so I thought I'd ask it here (in a thread about seiges). Phalanx units cant enter the towers on walls and presumably cant enter seige towers, climb ladders, or sap (and rightly so). So how do phalanx-building factions that dont build sword wielders of any type assault a city wall? As the Selucids, am I supposed to use lightly armoured archers or peltasts as an assault force for a city wall? This seems to be a serious flaw in gameplay.

That is wrong. What they ca'nt do is perfom there phalanx and they will attack with swords and shields. Of course they seem to suck when fighting in this manner though. Now it could be you have to take them out of phalanx formation before commitiing the act but they can do this.