[EB] Any help for beating skullhead?

[Paltmull]

This is hilarious!

Anyway:

he usually sets his phalanx right to mine's (when i'm not using the box) and strangely his medium are defeating my elite's. When i'm trying to protect the flanks his geisatai and medium troops defeat my flank troops( most of the time some heavy swordman and a bit of cavalry). If that happens i already know i can't win. In a last desperate reformation i try to make sure that his troops don't get any more into my flanks. That doesn't work and i let most of my units route, so he doesn't get a heroic victory.

Are your phalanxes set to guard mode? IIRC phalanxes fighting other phalanxes should not be in guard mode, as opposed to when fighting other kinds of troops. And don't order your phalangites to attack. Just move close enough and they will engage by themselves. Please correct me someone if I'm wrong.