Best phalanx in game?

[The_Emperor]

I ran a Silver Shields vs Spartan Hoplite battle, and the Spartans were winning acording to the tooltip.

But they were not, with their shorter spears they couldn't get much purchase on the Silver Shields, who with the superior length of their Pikes were able to get more kills...

But the Spartans slowly shuffled in closer and then they really started killling. Even with the superior numbers and longer Pikes, the Silver shields were then in a world of hurt.

The Spartans won that one.

I also had a costly battle storming a Greek cityas the Selucids, a unit of armoured Hoplites chewed through Two Units of Levy Pikemen, and weakened two others to below 50%, before they were routed and killed.

And the two surviving levy Pike units, attacked them from both the front and rear!!

Armoured Hoplites are tough.