Quote Originally Posted by Lars Jorgensun
I disagree, when they are two deep they are able to wrap themselves around 60-100 man units that are deployed in deep formation.
Eternal Champion was refering to deal with cavalry, and he´s righ there, when about to receive a cav charge, a deeper formation is needed, lest the unit gets split in half, and when that happens you can almost certainly write off that particular unit.
In any other situation, of course, the depth of two is optimal for swords and polearms.