Quote Originally Posted by SwissBarbar View Post
Imagine vanilla RTW as a strawberry. You can make it better by adding sugar and stuff. EB is the sugared, chocolate-vanilla-sauced, peach-icecream cultivated version of the strawberry , but you still cannot make a banana out of it.

EB works with the tools V-RTW to give us and make the best they can out of it. I'm sure the know pretty well about phalanxes.
Mmmmm straberry............ "drools"
Anyway yeah their representation is ok i'm saying however there is much room to improve so maybe in eb 2 we might see something different?
And oudysseos sorry, i guess io missed the part where you said you wrote it anyway thanks.
I have a few more questions regarding the matter,the early triarii, roman hoplites why were they abandoned?they seem even stronger than the late ones.....
And were there any at cannae?
Since i only got as far as the polibian reforms once would anyone explain when,why and how they happened? and why have i never heard of them before? from what i studied polibius was just a writer.....