Ca Putt - Well consider me a masochist, but vital battles I am willing to replay and this one is such, hehe.The Carthage bring those poeni elite spearmen (many), elite heavy cavalry, elite pikemen and sacred band (few).And these guys are all veterans, meaning couple of bronze or silver chevrons.They die HARD! I only found one elephant unit as a garrison and ...take notice: I attacked with 1200 men vs 2(!) elephants and lost 216 men, lol (autoresolved).

Athanaric - The Hoplitai when attacked the enemy mainly used their push from behind tactic.Meaning their 'weight' as a unit was pushing the enemy line backwards.The front line of the phalanx was using mostly the sword because they were "in touch" with the enemy.Pushing with the Hoplon (shield) and stubbing with the Xiphos /Kopis (Spartans).I guess you already know these but it's actually unrealistic that Hoplites are so inefficient with the sword.I know the engine has limits still a better value in attack (0,11 is like archer's dagger) maybe would be fairer.I am not complaining just my opinion ;-)

Fomalhaut - Macedonian phalanx was a lot different than the Hoplitai phalanx.The first one was looking to keep the distance, while the latter wanted to come in touch with the enemy.So in the macedonian case yes the sword and the shield were secondary.But in the hoplitai case, both the hoplon and the xiphos were important items in their tactics.Don't get me wrong I do not intend to get into historical arguments with you.It's just I feel something is missing :-)
Didn't confront Elephants in the open yet and to be honest I had my doubts of how easy or hard would be to deal with them.Plain peltasts you say? That is good.Really good! :-)

Anyone of you in KH campaign or having a save with a big progress.I would like to have a clue where my limits should be, if any, haha.