Quote Originally Posted by Cadwalader View Post
I have recently started playing EB again after a long absence, and noticed that in my Bactrian campaign, my severely weakened unit of levy phalangites absolutely crushed a full strength Seleucid unit of pezheratoi! While this event probably gave me the victory, it seems highly unnatural even though my unit was defending. I've made a few experiments in custom games, and it seems that the phalanx tries to actually kill people only some of the time, and it appears to be completely arbitrary whether they choose to do so or not.

..Or is it? I was hoping someone could answer that.
I always have the feeling the KI is micromanaging their phalangitai better than me, except for some instances when they do nothing....
By the way the Levy phalanx is often better than the klerouchi medium phalanx because they have AP axes.