Makedonia

Pydna battle setup
This one is a bit special with high amount homeland defence units. If your empire grows bigger replace 1 prodromoi with hetairoi, and phalangitai deuteroi with for example 1-2 guards(Hypaspistai, Pheraspidai), 2-3 Peltastai/Thureophoroi/Spendonetai/Cretans. you may also lower the number of Pedzetairoi.

For small armies use guards and peltast like units plus skirmishers and cavalry.

1 General
4 Cavalry(2 Prodromoi, [1 Thessalian, 1 Thracian/Celtic] or 2 thracian/celtic
1 Argyraspidai
6 Pedzetairoi
4 Phalangitai Deuteroi
3 Peltastai/Thureophoroi/Thracians
1 Spendonetai/Cretans

use mercenaries at will and as many as you like. Guard non homeland cities with mercenaries and low level factional units. allied cities should have garnison made from units recrutable from this city.