Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa
I was just testing basic strength...even running head first, I expect a fully trained veteran Post-Marian Cohort of the Roman empire to defeat a half trained peasant militia levy-phalangite from a disintegrating rebel Greek city state...
DUDE!!!

I ask this question to you...

What makes you believe you can take a group of heavy infantry with swords and do a frontal assult on phalanxes at the READY and win?????

It doesn't matter if the phalangites are levy or not... U ain't gonna walk through 5 metal points!

UNLESS you FLANK THEM or charge them when the pikes are UP then its where the quality of the phalangites comes into question.