How to deal with Pezhetairoi?

[antisocialmunky]

The advantage of horsies even though they get killed sometimes is that they're mroe likely to get healed and they can instantly rout a unit on impact if the charge is formed correctly(the ones that result int two rows of men flying across the screen).

[alatar]

My favorite tatic with phalanx is recruit some palanx units, say 2 or 3 and have the main army behind it with a wing on each end to stop flanking, the AI 7-10 phalanx trooops will
atttack your own engulfing thm, then send the hastati on the flanks, the heavy skirmishers and cavarly destroy the units gaurding the AI's flanks and the classdial hoplites charge the phalanx flanks in a very long and thin formation.
Trouble is as often as not I've discovered I've given them no-whre to run to and they fight like lions.

[antisocialmunky]

If you have problems with men fighting to the death, you can order cavalry to attack. Their mass causes pushes the enemy units into a very small area making them really easy to kill.

[Orb]

Get some half-decent-charge-possessing mercenary non-phalangites to hit them. Preferably large units to give a bigger morale penalty. The Kluddolon were perfect for me in 0.74 (I was Haikaikan, and had earlier had a lot of trouble with the Pezhetaroi), but I don't really know what's changed there.

[Watchman]

If you have problems with men fighting to the death, you can order cavalry to attack. Their mass causes pushes the enemy units into a very small area making them really easy to kill.

Oh, just open a path for them so they stop FTD'ing and rout poperly, so your horsies and whatnots can run them dogs down at leisure.

[antisocialmunky]

Agh, and let the routing catching AI take over? I still find that surrounding a unit and letting a general's heavy cavalry push/stumble/knock them back into a small cluster is more effective if you really need to kill a unit IE SIEGE. They barely manage to make attacks and are too busy turning and moving around to do anything.