How tough are the battles?

[Tiberius Nero]

Generals are indeed very hard to kill. Also, do the spears work correctly? I have had my pontic general unit 60 or so strong crash head-on into a full pantodapoi spearmen (not phalangites) unit and after fighting it out for 3 minutes on the spot, I routed them without really losing more than 15 horsemen. I mean, the stats of the pontic general aren't really impressive either and with the reduction in HP I would have expected my unit to disolve in seconds (it was more of a diversion charge and I intended to pull back immediately, but found out there was no reason to!) at least from my experience of RTRPE so far...

[Watchman]

Pantodapoi are about as crap as spearmen come in EB, and most of the time (barring fairly extreme circumstances and/or high battle difficulty settings) most GenBGs ought to be able to rout them without excessive difficulties. Might take a while though.

Remember that most weapons in EB have quite low "kill rates" - 0.125 seems to be the norm for infantry spears for example , meaning if I've understood correctly that only around one in eight blows that gets through the defense stats actually wounds...

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Playing as the Lusotannan (they rule), i came across this: i was fighting a siege battle against the Iberian rebels. I used skirmishers to ram the gate (so that they could throw their javelins after they're done). But after the gate was down and the skirmishers re-arranged them, the enemy's cavalry charged out of the gate and annihilated the skirmishers before my spearmen got there

I have never seen the AI do that in RTW or any other mod, so i wonder if it's an EB feature? If it is, then great work!