I'm playing as Roman in RTR 5.41 and at war with Greeks. I already own Rhegium and now besieging the last Greek city in Italian peninsular (forgot the name). I have a full stack Principees (plus a couple of veites) led by the Faction Leader and the Greeks have full of hoplites (including Athenian Hoplites) and based of my previous battles I always have problems dealing with hoplites.

My tactics was to starve them out and only attack on the last turn (7 turns all together) while concentrating the sudden Gaul invasion in the north (my former betraying ally) with all newly trained and green units.

Little that I realized that the Greeks have been sending reinforcement (suddenly they're quite strong in this second game I'm playing) from the east and there are 2 1/2 stack landed nearby. One full stack led by a 3 start general attack me with reeinforcement about 3000 troops agains my 1800 romans.

Upon checking with my spies the armies reveals full of hoplites (argghhhh) and my army is in the lower ground (second arrghh....)

Reluctantly on the advice of my captain I retreated towards Rhegium. My army then camp on the valley nicely situated a little up hill. As expected the main strongest Greek army followed and attack. The elevation is on my side. Situated nicely on the slope where those dreaded phalanx have to climb up.

I start the battle having all my infantry line up nicely with the velited in the second line. The the phone ring (!)

When I came back to the screen I seend most of the greeks have routed maybe because of the pillas raining on them and by the time they reach my main line. Anyway my army are severy depleted also and I decided to re-start the battle.

This time even when I'm defending the moment the battle start, I put all my pillum thrower unit in 'fire at will' and charge all down the hill.

This time the enemy were caught off guard. All these crazy romans charging down the hill while throwing pillas at them. When the armies met they're still been rained will more javelin from the Velites.

This time even their super Armenian Hoplites routed in no time time and the only their general still fighting. Attacked from 4 directions all were masacred and the heroic victory for my Faction Leader. My loss was only about 100.

Right after that their 2nd stack attacked and I applied the same tactics. Since this army is only led by a captain they routed much earlier and the loss on my side is less than 50 (compary to their 1500++).

So stupid with their command they send the last half stack army leaving their city undefended. This time there's no route but total annihiliation with no loses to mine.

Pheww... all in one turn.

About ah hour for all the three battles.