Quote Originally Posted by MiniMe

please, explain (if you're still reading this tread, of course)
I'm that surprised, cause I've recently mentioned someplace else Your opinion (that I do share) that 2 units of levy phalanx are preferable to one unit of qualified phalanx.
They are missing the medium phalanx class (Pezhetairoi or Klerouchoi Phalangitai) that will form the backbone of the other Successor armies (Makedonia, AS and Ptolemaia) in the later game as well as units like the Pheraspides or Hypaspistai. In return they have the Illyrian units in their line up, who are not really needed, and the elephants, who are way to expensive to be fielded in decisve numbers.

So, in the start their army will not differ much from the other Successor armies, but in the process of the campaign, as soon as the others have developed their economy enough to field advanced phalanxes, Epeiros will have a severe handicap, because she can either stick to levy phalanx or go for elite units by reducing the size of the army.

And if you meant their lack or heavy cavalry... well, with all respect to Hetairoi and Kataphraktoi, it's Lonchophoroi hippeis that are the best Successor cavalry, cause they have great AOR, cost less and require MIC 4, not 5, not to mention their stamina and speed.
Cavalry the arm in which Epeiros is as strong as, for example, Macedonia. They have the Molosson Agema and all the other classes of heavy and medium cavalry like Prodomoi, Lonchophoroi Hippeis and Hetairoi Aspidophoroi.