Surprisingly good units

[Ibrahim]

Iphicratean hopites are uderrated IMO; they are more flexible than a classical phalanx, they're more cohesive, and make for good melee fighters, should the phalanx break. all in all, excellent unit, yet rarely mentioned by many a player in greece.

also, camilan Hastati are underrated; true, morale, stats and otherwise are mediocre, but they make great frontline troops, tiring the enemy, so that their superiors can finish them off.

[Olaf The Great]

Iphicratean hopites are uderrated IMO; they are more flexible than a classical phalanx, they're more cohesive, and make for good melee fighters, should the phalanx break. all in all, excellent unit, yet rarely mentioned by many a player in greece.

also, camilan Hastati are underrated; true, morale, stats and otherwise are mediocre, but they make great frontline troops, tiring the enemy, so that their superiors can finish them off.

Yeah I had a very good experience with a mercenary unit of Iphricatean Hoplites as Hayasdan, along with a unit of Thessalians. Made a very good minature version of Hammer and anvil that worked very well.

There are many varieties of them too...

Normals..
Mail armoured
Mail armoured elites(Ptolemies)
Indogreek..
Alpine...
Helvetii..
Getai Light
Getai Heavy :P

..Is that it?

[Zarax]

Iphicrateans are good but imho I preferred them in 1.0 as they were a quite flexible phalanx (gotta love the getai and helvetii versions).