How is phalanx vs maniple in EB?

[Kikosemmek]

Interesting. So the key to winning with a phalanx against maniples would be to strenghten your flanks by any means and using mobile troops to encircle the enemy, while the phalanx buys you the time to do this? Anyway, thanks for the reply

I never meant to state a universal function of a phalanx. In fact, I was very fond of using vanilla Spartans as both phalangites and heavy shock infantry because of their swordsmanship prowess. The fact that maniples beat phalanxes in general relies many factors, such as the sword skills of the maniple soldiers vs the ones of the phalanx, the armour of the maniple soldiers measuring how much spear they can take by the time a few of them start surrounding the enemy, and the phalangites' armour on the other hand, capable of holding out against those closing in to sword-battle while having the majority of the formation still taking the spearpoints' front end.