Originally Posted by
Stannis Baratheon
EB1 phalanxes were busted. I would not go back to that, definitely worse option than what we have now. I have to say though, if anyone here has played DaC - their pike units are the best i came across in m2tw, even if they're on the strong side - but that is fixable with simple stats. They actually visually hold back the enemy and most importantly AI uses them well.
Imo phalanxes still hold enemies in place very well and arent too weak, although i suspect that their tight formation helps them more than the spearwall, like with hoplitai.
EB2 team surely worked on this issue for very long though, so it feels kinda bad to came in and claim they did badly when (i at least) have a tiny sample size compared to them. Its better than 2.3 for sure in any case