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    Default Phalanx formation

    Hi! I was wondering why is the phalanx formation when you start a battle so long an so shallow? the AI puts the like 3 man deep! and that is just ubsured... The phalanx fightin at this point is really ridicolous since the phalanx behaves very strangely if so long and if you play in an historycal formation it just gives really wierd battles with phalanxes attempting flanking manouvers and such. This make playin a successor against successor very wierd..

    What do you guys think?
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    Default Re: Phalanx formation

    Just how deep of formation you want?

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    Default Re: Phalanx formation

    i don't know... at least 9 man deep
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    I don't think you have enough men to pull that out. Maybe if you have lots of phalanx units and you use Huge unit sizes.

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    Default Re: Phalanx formation

    well i use them... i play on huge unit size and have from 5 to 6 phalanxes in an army... but the AI has sometimes more than 10 and that's where the problem is
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    Hm - I think 3-4 man deep is very reasonable since it means that all (or at least almost all) soldiers in the unit are able to fight at the same time - or am I wrong?

    If you put them so into shape that their lines are 9 man deep - 5-4 lines of the unit wont fight and so be quite useless. If they'd be 5 man deep you could with only three phalanx-units hold a front as long as that you held with 5...

    But there'd be two spaces more in the army you could fill with supporting troops...
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