Phalanx bug

[R'as al Ghul]

The phalanx needs micromanaging like HA did in MTW.
But they respond quite good and seem to profit from rearrangements
during melee. This sounds odd, because in MTW it would be the safe death
of your unit.
What I occasionally do is to change/rotate the facing of the phalanx via "," and "." keys. The phalanx erects their spears (dissolves the phalanx), wheels around rather fast and puts the spears down again. If you're engaged in melee with cav , your phalanx will often crush those horses in the middle of the phalanx (that have jumped over) during this procedure. At the end of this your phalanx will be positioned better and grind down the last cav in front of you.
As the Emperor said, turning the phalanx off is a good option when already in melee and the enemy is closer than a spears length or when the enemy has disturbed your phalanx. No point in keeping the phalanx mode when it's already disordered. Switch to standard formation, wait a while and switch back to phalanx.

R'as


This phalanx-thread explains it all