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    Default Re: Question with Hoplites..

    Take them out of the Phalanx formation and they'll attack with swords (holding the spear in one hand ) Useful to get them running around quickly or when you need to flank the enemy and have no other units available
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    Alt + right click forces an attack with the secondary weapon.
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    Spartans are impressive swordsmen also
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    Make sure you turn off guard mode or only a handful will attack and the rest will stand around like fools, sometimes fascing the wrong direction .

    It works very well when getting though gates and breachs. You use one unit as "swordsmen" and another as a phalanx. The "swordsmen" push back the enermy, then the phalanx can move in and finish the job.

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    Question Re: Question with Hoplites..

    seeing as this is a post about hoplites can anyone tell me why enemy cav allmost never fails to smash straight through the front of my greek phalanx`s?
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    Wishazu, if you mean that enemy Cav. is just smashing through your pikemen its because it can happen. Ive seen horses jump OVER pikemen to get into the middle of the formation. The book tells you to attack them from the front or flank, they say that because you will lose alot less men attacking there, but from a full on banzi assualt of the front will cause ALOT more casualties but its a BLAST to watch! I hope that helps.

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    I don't know. You know, as the game was going to be released I heard the devs talk many a times about horses balking and hesitating if they were forced to charge a line of spears, most esspecially that of a Phalanx.

    Yet I have, playing on hard, in a fight against the Carthagians, playing as the Greeks, has two Phalanxes decimated, one by a general and one by round shield cavalry, on a head on charge. I think I might have killed three horses in total, while in about 10 seconds all men from both Phalanxes were killed. I believe they were standard hoplites.

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