Epeiros NOT having pikes? I guess all those bronze pikebuts found at Dodona, all those texts mentioning Pyrrhos having pikemen, both Epeirotes and Makedonian mercs, even training Tarantinoi to fight "in the makedonian manner" is to be dismissed, ey?

If I may offer some suggestion, seeing that Epeirote lineup isn't going to change, is to try to counter pike phallanxes as it was done historically. Isolate, have some sphendonetai fire at them from the sides and charge them, NOT where they pikes are pointing.

That seems to work most of the time.