Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
(Green) Eye of the Storm

Get eight or more hopilie style units form a circle, sit your general and one Crete Archer in the middle. Start Battle, switch the time to max speed and go make a coffee. Come back and count the dead enemies.

More ranks, having a roving reserve (Spartan Hopilites) and other improvements all help.

But the end of the day it is your general who is in the eye of the storm.
Thanx a lot for this advice. I tried and my army was erased
I was Sel and had a FM with mercs (2 phalanx, 2 barb inf, 1 falx, 2 crete archers, 1 pelteasts, 1 barb cav). Enemy was Pontus, twice as strong. (their king with another FM, Sarmathian cav., 1 jav, rest desert inf). First their inf charged, then the two FMs. My line was shaken. I sent my FM and the falxs. My barb cav tried to get them in the rear. Enemy sent the Sarmathians. My phalanx was broken. My FM run away and so did the rest of the army. Big desaster