Units In Square Formation?

[Siris]

I've perfected this with the Greeks, I use in my squares:

1 General Unit
6 Cretan Archer Units (or regular Archers, preferably Cretan)
1 Heavy or Regular Onager
12 Spartan or Armoured Hoplites

Two or three units on the front, backed by two or three more, two or three on the right & left, two or one in the rear, all of the archers & General & onager in the center.

Why an onager? It is perfect in MP for taking out Roman testudo formations which they enjoy doing whenever your cretan or regular archers spray their butts. My onagers in MP have taken out nearly 1,000 men in testudo's, very very effective.

Btw, I play as Aaron in MP during the weekends, may see me & Torque around, hes a guy I know. I'm the strategist, always tellnig him what to get, & where to put them... we havent lost a battle yet!

[Kraxis]

Actually the Spartans used a massive hollow square when on the march to make certain that they could always present a wall of men to an ambush. Seems sensible enough and sounds very Spartan.

[Siris]

They fight to the death I'll tell ya, well, at least "most" of the time. I've had one unit in Large settings (81 men per unit) route when surrounded by the Senate Imperial army in the Roman province fields, when only 17 of them were left.

But then in MP, I had a unit of Spartans fight to the last map against 1,000 enemies in the streets of a city. When only two remained, still not routing, they were pressed on their backs against a wall, me & Torque watched them cheering them on, (though they cannot hear us or anything), and they killed a count of 13 more enemy Roman legionaries by themselves, and then were both killed.... pressed against a wall with back facing it... 500 eemies left alive infront of them pressing them up against the wall... 159 fellow men in armies dead (the rest of their unit)... and they still fought to the death!

Me & Torque bring those two fella's up everyday that we get on to play that, lol! Talk about being remembered!

I think that when the enemy MP player saw this, he knew he would not win that fight.