-About the triarii helmets, someone posted a screenshot of them in the bug forum looking strange at high details; that may be what is being referred to.
No I was refering to them looking like pushed up corinthians, though I have noticed the bug you speak of too.

-Hmm, they seem to be just as good as most other meele fighters for me. What difficulty are you playing on, and who were they fighting.
No I mean in reality, appently thier equiptment made them poor individual fighters (just thier equiptment, nothing to do with thier individual proficiency) but I cant see how.

-Also to see some of the new roman auxillia units you get can after the marian and augustian reforms, look here. They are very kick ass, almost makes me want to play as those dirty romans.
Again I was talking about real life not the game, but I have read that the romans used more heavily armoured versions of heavy peltast type hellenistic forces as auxilaries from the hellenistic provinces as they most closely mirrored the legionary infantry way of war.

This is obviously wrong, as this "heavy equpment" was not heavier than this of modern soliders, or roman legionares.
You have to take into accout that modern soldiers are both physically stronger and more durable, due to both lifestlye improvements (a more nutritious and reliable food system) and better training.

And.

Modern soldiers equiptment in fight is actually quite light, in combat they wil only carry at most 40 lbs.(they drop thier bergans/rucksacks)

I cant remember how heavy a roman legionaire is but something around the region of 40-50 lbs combat wieght comes to mind, Im sure you know though.

A greek hoplites equiptment (With bronze curass and such) is supposed to be around 70 lbs from the sites ive read, so If the hypaspists were heavily aurmoured they would tire quickly, even if they were as fit as modern elite soldiery..

Meanwhile if they were lightly to not armoured this would be more achievable.

Still these are just my observations, they probably mean diddly FA.

-What do you mean?
WHat I meant is from what ive read and seen they would act like a strong phalanx usually but if needs be or if it would be better they could drop thier sarissas and charge with just thier sidearms and still be effective (the normal phalangite had a poor sidearm which meant he had trouble when close in)

But that seems to be wrong.