Quote Originally Posted by Renegen
You've never played as Sab'yn have you? Put the archers in skirmish mode and you can separate phalanx units and shoot them in the back. There's also the fact the AI is stupid and heavy units will charge then retreat and expose themselves.
Any plan that relies on the enemy making a mistake is deeply flawed. That, and the fact that sometimes the AI will actually forget about marching pointlessly back and forth, and instead hold his position, in which case your archers can fire all their arrows at lowly Pantodapoi/Machimoi phanlgites without causing a single casualty.