Quote Originally Posted by Cash Staks
In a sort of different vein, are the sheildwall and schiltrom(sp.) formations something to write home about? I know everyone says the slightly improved AI and naval invasions make a better campaign, but are these new formations anything to get excited about?
Shieldwall is awesome, schiltrom is not very useful. For EB purposes, including shieldwall would introduce significant unit balance issues. For example, classical hoplites seem like a logical unit to have shieldwall. Assuming they're presently balanced, adding shieldwall would make them way too powerful (quite possibly better than thorakitai, Bactrian Agema, etc.). There might be a minimod where someone has figured this stuff out.