well if you study history, and in particular take a look at the history of greek warfare you will find than once a phalanx is flanked that was usually the end, its strength was in showing a united strong front and either holding this formation to receive the enemy or advance, once a phalanx gets broken up its doomed, the way greek hoplites fight in vanilla is completely histoically wrong, rtr even forms all your phalanx units into a single phalanx block at the start of deployment, btw cheers for that rtr.