Unmatched Virility of the Macedonians

[Sakkura]

In all honesty, no. They're pretty brittle for being so 'elite', but I still use them because of their wonderful assault capabilities. I loathe assaulting cities with phalanx troops, due to the retarded-monkey pathfinding, so I generally have three to five units of "assault" troops that will storm the city under cover from the various "Psiloi" units, and then the phalanx only comes in as a last resort.

They are fine. They aren't really elite (that would be pheraspidai) but just excellent anti-armor troops. Don't use them against troops with low armor if you can avoid it.

[Ravenic]

I never meant to suggest the Argrinanian's weren't good, I only said they did not live up to their hype.