Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
If you are playing on VH, you're going to exacerbate this tendency of the AI to charge. Also, how is not throwing a pila and getting 10 kills on an 80 man unit enough to cause an otherwise equal matchup to loose on VH? One way of increasing the challenge would be to not throw pila yourself since the AI doesn't throw them, and that would solve the pila blocking the charge problem as well.
Don't know, haven't tested the pila on VH, I do testing like that on medium. Haven't yet checked to see if stat bonuses other than morale are being given for VH. Obviously spotting the opponent a 15% manpower advantage on medium is decisive--even accounting for the random incremental combat results.

I haven't yet run into the pila issue in campaign since I haven't been fighting Romans or Spanish/Spanish merc. Without others reports I wouldn't have known about it yet. It will weaken the Roman factions against others however, and there is nothing I can do about that.