When flanked, rotate, or hold phalanx position?

[Marshal Murat]

One tactic I have tried sometimes is to just pile four phalanx onto each other, until there are ouly four little holes for the enemy to charge through.

[smoothiemaker]

with the greeks and there phalanxes being flanked the best thing i have found is to keep skimerishers behind the phalanx the can stop the calvary untell one of your phalanx units turns around to make the horses in to shish kabobs

[HoreTore]

If you only got a phalanx army without any supporting cavalry/infantry, or the support troops can't compete against the enemy's cavalry(because of significantly fewer numbers or quality), try "bending" the flanks of your line so that the flanks are also a line a spears. If you're defending, you'll have plenty of time to deploy your troops in this fashion, preferably on higher ground of course.

It doesn't work very well on the attack though, and I don't have a solution to that, always bring a significant cavalrysquadron when attack

[Zalmoxis]

There is a way to delay cavalry from attacking u from behind. You simply place archers behind ur phalanx, and leave them with fire at will on. It works for me very well.

[Claudius the God]

what's the easiest way to rotate a phalanx unit? are there any hotkeys or something? (rotate unit left, rotate unit right) because i hate making phalanx units go to standard formation when enemy cavalry are charging their sides...

[Parmenion]

The hotkeys are . and , to rotate a unit in each diection. You just hold down the key and a ghost image starts rotating. When it reaches the desied position release the key and teh unit will rotate.
The only problem with this is that a phalanx unit will raise their pikes before rotating, so that flanking cavalry may hit them before they are ready.

[HarunTaiwan]

You can form a full square.

I use that with Germans and archers in the middle.

The rear of the square is only one spear band two deep, but basically the horsies never get there anyways.