Hey everybody,
Personally I believe that in RTW vanilla, phalanxes are overpowered. The greek phalanxes have absurdly long spears and can pretty much destroy any unit with ease.The moment phalanxes lower their spears, unless you have another phalanx yourself in order to fix them you're pretty much screwed. All you can do is throw your non phalanx units at them or their flanks and hope they break, but you risk suffering massive casualties.
This problem became very big for me playing as the Brutii. I suffered heavy casualties and could rarely break even militia hoplite phalanxes. The pila help, but what else can I do as Rome to defeat phalanxes?
Thanks,
Auggie