Best phalanx in game?

**Jeanne d'arc** · 10-19-2004, 20:11

Seleucid silver shield pikemen are my favorite, large number of men in eich unit and longest spears amongs all the phalanxes.Not bad unit statistics to.Who thinks otherwhise?

**jimmyM** · 10-19-2004, 20:33

If it wasn't for their terrible base armour values, i'd say spartans; in combat they generally eat through the opposition, otherwise i'd say silvershields have the advantage...

**Accounting Troll** · 10-19-2004, 20:36

Macedonian Royal Pikemen for me. As with all Macedonian pikemen, you get more men per unit than Greek hoplites, and Royal Pikemen will still put up a good fight even after their formation gets flanked.

**Akka** · 10-19-2004, 20:47

Armoured hoplites.

They just look good.

**Osbot** · 10-19-2004, 21:34

I ran a test awhile ago 5 battles with all of the "elite" Phalanxes. At the time I had not correctly modded Royal Pikemen to have the longpike that they should have.

I forget the exact results but, it basically went like this.

Silver Shields 5 - Royal Pikes 0
Silver Shields 4 - Spartans 1 (Silver Shields shuffled their way to be facing away from the Spartans)
You can guess how other battles would have gone, being that these are the 3 best phalanx units in the game.

In general the long pike Phalanxes dominated everything else because the shorter spear equiped units were completely unable to close the distance, and if they tried they got mauled even harder.

**Dorkus** · 10-19-2004, 21:54

a unit of levy pikemen in wide formation can beat spartans under ai control. the ai doesn't attempt to get to the flank. it just keeps walking straight at the pikes with its shorter spears, and the spartans will (very slowly) die.

Originally Posted by Osbot

I ran a test awhile ago 5 battles with all of the "elite" Phalanxes. At the time I had not correctly modded Royal Pikemen to have the longpike that they should have.

I forget the exact results but, it basically went like this.

Silver Shields 5 - Royal Pikes 0
Silver Shields 4 - Spartans 1 (Silver Shields shuffled their way to be facing away from the Spartans)
You can guess how other battles would have gone, being that these are the 3 best phalanx units in the game.

In general the long pike Phalanxes dominated everything else because the shorter spear equiped units were completely unable to close the distance, and if they tried they got mauled even harder.

**Colovion** · 10-19-2004, 22:28

It depends on who's controlling them I think.

Spartans are the ones which will take the most units from you in the end though because they fight to the death. If you play custom battles you can probably win with almost any of the phalanx units, but will lose more or less depending on which one you choose.