Expensive phalanxes not worthwhile

[Swordmaster]

I hate fighting phalanx. This just shows how good they are.. Even if I charge couple heavy cavalry couple times they seem to last longer then other spear/sword units.

Expensive phalanx in the enemy army means prepare to have heavy casualty for me...

Second that. I have such terrible nightmares from my 0.81a Roman campaigns against Macedon that I'm now very reluctant to cross the Adriatic.

[QuintusSertorius]

Second that. I have such terrible nightmares from my 0.81a Roman campaigns against Macedon that I'm now very reluctant to cross the Adriatic.

In 1.1 the only ones worthy of fear are these characters:

[konny]

Everyone with 7(!) experince is a serious opponent against green troops.

[QuintusSertorius]

Everyone with 7(!) experince is a serious opponent against green troops.

My own fault too, since I spawned them in some of Makedonia's settlements when they failed to recruit them, in spite of Koinon Hellenon pasting their useless armies of levy hoplites and levy Gallic spearmen. The ones I created had 3 experience already, then with the way auto-calc zings up surviving units experience...

I won in the end, but my entire fighting line had to be retired and replaced wholesale because they were that badly mauled.

[Olaf The Great]

In my experience having levy phalanxes in field battles works just as well as elite ones, however in offensive city battle(where their formation gets F-ed up and they need to fight with swords) Elite phalanxes are needed to carry the day.

One notable and technically game breaking in this sense is Pantodapoi, with their AP axes, Morale is their only real problem, and a small one if you know how to exploit it.