Quote Originally Posted by ColdKnight
I have found flaming arrows extreamly effective against Phalanx formations at medium range and close up and against legions they are so destructive its silly, considering the AI never turtles up. About the Catapult flaming balls, their more like napalm filled giant paintballs and always use them against faction that uses phalanx, I have seen whole units taken out.
I won't defend the effectiveness of onagers (way too powerful when they connect), but I have read of some Roman field artillery slicing up Pontic phalangites. After they were disordered the Roman infantry rushed in to the gaps to finish them off. Note, that the idea is not that the onagers destroyed the enemy, but they created the conditions for the infantry to destroy the enemy.

I hate the flaming arrows.