I know it's historical that they fought overhand and whatnot, but since the phalanx formation has been removes, Greek hoplites take huge damage against archers, slingers and ESPECIALLY javelineers...

I just started my first campaign with a hoplite using faction, the Greeks, and i notice that my hoplites get torn up by the above mentioned missle units... Even Spartan hoplites!

Now, this may be historically accurate, as i understand large numbers of skirmishers became the order of the day in the later years due to the casualties they could inflict, but this is putting the Greeks at an unfair disadvantage against phalangites, which CAN form a phalanx.

Phalanx formation reduces missle damage so much that whole units of skirmishers can loose 10 volleys into them and not kill even 1 man, despite the phalangites being more lightly armoured and having smaller shields than hoplites...

A full unit of 160 Greek classical hoplites will get butchered by a unit of akontistai... If all volleys are thrown, the hoplites will take over 1/4 losses, sometimes more, even Spartans... Whereas a mediocre unit of phalangites, if all volleys are thrown, will take around 1/20 damage, if that... The better phalangites don't take any damage at all frontally from skirmishers, or if they do it's just one or two men.

Is there no way to make the phalangites weaker to missles while still retaining their current defence valued in hand to hand?