Quote Originally Posted by Lofman
I don't think so, since they are rather unreliable and inflexible, I actually once had a troop of Militia Hoplites get beaten by Eastern Infantry in a straight fight. I was not amused. It is just that Romans and Carthaginians have extremely crappy tier one units.
Well what did you do wrong? I mean i have fought crap loads of eastern infantry with crap loads of militia hoplites. If by "straight fight" you mean no phalanx then theres your problem.

in my sassanid army though levy spearmen are the backbone of my army.THey hold up the romans heavy infantry while my clibanarii smashs the romans.