I'm aware these guys were actually tough but when an entire army has surrounded one unit of Triarii, they are in basic terms, fucked... youre not going to survive unless youre covered in really thick plate armor, which the triarii aren't.

From what I know of the history of the Roman military is that the hellanic equipment and phalanx formation fighting basically was fell out of use with the romans because of Brennos and his army capturing the city of rome and holding it for ransom.

But if the triarii were as tough historically as they are in this modification there would have been no reason for the Romans to have changed what clearly works with flying colours.

I think the Triarii are a beautiful unit, they are a wonderful unit to fight with because they basically batter everything into submission but in certain battles where I a fairly significant force of guys who are carefully placed so as to create a trap for units of trairii so that they can be surrounded and have their formations bust up, suddenly rout because of a stubborn yet tiny force of Triarii, I get quite frustrated.

Maybe hard mode has a glitch or something but these guys are just extremely tough even the Geaste had difficulties fighting the Triarii when I captured the City of Rome.

Has anyone else experienced this or is there a historically valid counter argument to what I've said? if the Triarii were really this completely elite unstoppable force, then fair enough, but something just doesn't seem right about it.