Quote Originally Posted by aevionknight
God, did I find that out the hard way. I besieged a town of Eleutheroi on Sicily. When I saw their unit list (almost all Peltasti), I thought, "Hey, no problem! What can Peltasti do against Hastati?"

Annihilate them in close quarters, apparently. Ouch.
I recruited the hell out of mercenary Hippeis for those fights - they got pretty badly cut up, but I was able to relieve my infantry by chasing away unengaged peltastai units and preventing them from ganging up on my units. They seem to crumple pretty quick, but they also like to regroup from routing fast too.