I'm not an EB member, but here goes...

Quote Originally Posted by Corinthian Hoplite
I have yet another questions:

1. How will be classical hoplite animations? (if any) Are they like in other hellenic-period mods (good), or just a tweaked javelin animation (bad)?
Their animations haven't been previewed yet. Personally I didn't think the fs_javelin animation (that's what it was called, IIRC) were that bad.

Quote Originally Posted by Corinthian Hoplite
2. Phalanxes, I don't play EB for quite some time, so forgive me if I'm being stupid: Do they still have officers? (very bad) How are they deployed, with or without gaps between them? (XGM) Without is obviously better...
In the current version of EB, none of the phalanx units have officers. I don't expect that the classical hoplites will get them either, but you'll have to wait till an EB member confirms that.
There's the new standard bearers (very sexy I might add), but I'm guessing that they're meant for hypapsistai, thureophoroi and similar units. I also vaguely recall something about a mounted standard bearer...