Quote Originally Posted by BeeSting
Sorry if i didn't make myself clear. Let me reiterate: You don't get the charge bonus in phalanx formation, you have to be charging in standard formation to get it.
And as I said...having a 1 charge bonus is not much...the phalanx should be worth a lot more than that very small bonus or there would be no reason to ever use the phalanx formation. The unit would do better out of phalanx all the time. Yet it normally uses phalanx when it can. I tested both 50 and 1 for charge and it still did the dumbest thing possible.

I didn't mention that it managed to lose every fight...except the one where I mirrored its tactics. With 50/50 for spear attack/charge, it lost to cav with 7 attack--and by a huge margin.