I agree completely, I was just about to make a similar comment in this thread.
Today in my Spartan campaign I came across a Greek army near the city of Athens. We had similar style troops but they had more cavalry (as well as horsearchers). Our infantry lines clash and we fight. I manage to flank from the left, into their side and back. I was doing well, caving in the flank in with my Promachoi. They were pushing my right but it held.
After quite some time, the left I was attacking was still holding. I literally had several enemy units completey surrounded, after seeing that they weren't going to flee. 'Defeat seemed certain' to them. I push and push. By this time my right was taking heavy casualties (cavalry somehow able to push back Spartan hoplites from the front). Still I've got the majority of my troops pushing the left, who are under continous fire from the horsearchers.
And then they get reinforcements.
Nothing major, one unit of Royal peltasts and I think two units of medium cavalry.
Only one unit remains on my right. Still, I fight the stubborn remainders on my left. Then the royal peltasts come and attack the back of my left. Fresh vs Exhausted. My right is destroyed and those troops also fall upon my left; surrounding the surround
ers. After a loooong while, my army and Successor are killed.
It's not even the morale, the casualty rate on the enemy's surrounded units was terrible; you have spears coming in from every side and only one man dies every minute?
Don't mean to moan, I was just quite annoyed after spending 30 mins on a battle that I should've won easily to losing my greatest general and his experienced army. Bah, you can't win them all I suppose. I'll just get my revenge when I burn Athens to the ground.