Romans ♥♥♥♥ out fullstacks consistently so my only chance at defeating them before my armies got taken out due to attration and inabillity to reinforce native units in greece at the time was to rush into Italy. I couldnt use 2 stacks against dalmatea, which is my standard procedure in campaigns, and left one army in epiros to defend. Yes there were multiple factors that lead to this particular situation, at the time of the battle I was at the gates of rome, I punched the romans out of greece and naval landed into southern italy with 3 armies. You just win against them just the way the Romans (Greeks & Thracians) did historically: You win the flanks and then just rout the centre (or pepper them to death with javelins). Isn't it just your fault for not using defensive troops for important defensive purposes? I also don't understand, why you yourself didn't just place a phalanx as 1st line of defense, since the Hayk has them. So you better don't let this one failed chokepoint defense cloud your judgement, since like I said, the submod makes phalanxes far too easy. I mean, if you came with the Hayk all the way to Greece and have already legions unlocked, it can only mean that you have fought tons battles against phalanxes and won them. Since most line infantry has some form of throwing weapons, it already softens up phalanxes quite well, especially when focus fired.
With all that said, phalanxes are strong, but not overpowered. Also, pushing in is actually the only way for them to actually harm pike phalanxes and if they just stand in "negagement distance" and stay there, the pikes, with their longer reach, will just poke them slowly to death with barely any casualties themselves. The reason is, that it makes the hoplites just standing roadblocks and therefore the battles far too easy. I know that I told about the submod, but I should mention that I don't use it myself. This is why they will grind most opposition to death if they can just push into the lines uninhibited since melee attack and defense scale far stronger than weapon damage and armor piercing. Stuff like Hypaspists in hoplite phalanx will have outright twice more defense than green roman legions and nearly the same advantage over Praetorians. Elite hoplites have the uncanny and annoying trait of having extremely high defense when silver chevron and above and buffed by some other means. For pike phalanxes it is kind of the case, but for hoplite phalanxes it depends a lot on 2 factors: Quality of the hoplites and their "buffs" (from general, armory, experience, etc).
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