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.
Excellent. I use this one all the time. Usually it's with more like 12-13 phalanx units and 4 or 5 archers. Oh, and ideally you want to get on top of one of those nice little round hills.

My basic tactic is never fight fair.

I never attack unless I have overwhelming numbers.

When I'm on offense, I always defend. Move your troops to a good spot, let the enemy attack you. (The only exception to this is attacking wooden walls, which is a slaughter when you bring archers.)

A good phalanx or heavy infantry line (12-13 units), a generous amount of archers (4-5 units) and a few horse on defense on a hill and it doesn't take a tactical genius to win.