Quote Originally Posted by Simon Appleton
I am not very experienced playing phalanx armies, but in the setup stage of a siege battle, when I tried to get my hoplites - vanilla, militia, armoured and Spartan - to man a ram or a siege tower, I'm told that the unit can't undertake that action. Makes no sense to me. Had to get my rhodian slingers to man the ram and gave up on the siege tower battle (no way I'm sending Rhodians up a siege tower to contest a wall!).

I don't recall such a problem with my German spear warbands - who also operate as a phalanx - though.

If anyone else can confirm this, I'll suggest it as a "bug" or at least bad feature!
You have to turn off phalanx mode then they can be assigned siege equipment

The Greeks are one of the easiest factions to play as IMO, you just have to get used to fighting big defensive battles then counter attacking in the next turn rather than the usual Roman steamroller approach!