Does Height Advantage Affect Phalanx?

[Osbot]

So on flat ground the Spartans beat the Silver Shields? I've run extensive tests and if it ever happened it was a fluke with the two phalanxes rotating to a position relative to one another where the Spartans were behind the Silver Shields. Otherwise the Silvershields did exactly what they did on your hill test. The spartans couldnt close and were held at bay/slaughtered.

[Oleander Ardens]

Small exerp:

With the doubled two-rank Levy phalangites I have beaten Chosen Swordsman with 9 experience, and golden swords and armor while taking minimal losses - 20 men - all on even ground.

The big advantage of this system is the reduced shift, or the fact that even when the shift occurs only the first phalanx does so, while the other behind it does remain. This makes gaps far less common during prelonged combat..

Usually also fewer men engage with the swords, making the phalanx more effective on the long run..

One disadvantage with the long pikes and two/three two-ranks is that sometimes units can get pass the pikes and this often equals to lot of casualites if it is a elite one. With two ranks there is a "blind spot" right before the firstline, where the enemy can only get attacked with swords. Berserker for example often jump over the pikes, get there and start to killing on after the other. This results in a spot covered with your men while in other zones nobody get's harmed...


The long pikes give the SSP and the BSP the edge over any other elite phalanx in a direct encounter; The perfect units for holding breaches in street fighting, but rather vulnerable to missileunits...

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I have to confess that I never witnessed a SSP or a BSP get defeated in a direct encounter against the best pumbed up infantry or phalangites. Could you tell us more about the encounter?

OA

[son of spam]

I placed my SSP in the middle of the map "Macedonian Ruins", which is slightly downhill. The Spartans had a *very* slight height advantage, but they massacred my SSP, in much the same way I killed them before when I had a height advantage.