Quote Originally Posted by Orvis Tertia
OK, how about a more specific question: Are sheild walls effective at attacking, or should you put them back into normal formation before charging? In particular, I'm thinking about situations where you are in shield wall and the center of your line is attacked. Is it best to put your flanking units in the line into regular formation before charging them against the units attacking your center, or does shield wall remain effective enough to make it worthwhile to keep it on in the countercharge?

You could take an easy one or the “lazy man” defence and have your hoplites (or whatever) take up a triangle shape and let the enemy throw themselves on your weapons and as they run away, you run them down.

Works every time, but not much fun.