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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 292023" data-attributes="member: 5400">Remember the RomansThe phalanx of Macedonia was beaten by the Romans - their techniques may work for you.1. the phalanx tactic needs relatively even ground to work. Your enemy are a solid mass - break that mass up. Put them on uneven ground, try to choose your battlefield. When they're on uneven ground (lots of rocks or dips or rises) it's very much harder to maintain your frontline. If you can't choose your field, then control the field. On the night before, sew their side of the field with hazards - rocks, pits, caltrops, pitch or oil that can be set alight. The purpose of this is to break up that line, make holes in their invincible frontage. Accentuate these problems with magic use and siege engines.2. Be ready to exploit those holes once they are created. Organise your forces in small, tight groups with large shields and close combat weapons, swords preferably. These groups have to use the holes in the line to get in close to the first line. The large shields are to protect you against the second line and their pole weapons. Once these groups get close, they have to push always into the enemy line, forcing the holes further open and looking to join up with the other groups of their own side. At all times, work to prevent the holes from closing up. This means that the most important part of the tactic for your side is to close the distance as quickly as possible, to exploit the holes when they occur. If this tactic works, it should break their line, though it could be close going.You say that they've been using this tactic for ten years - they are ripe for Sun Tzu's greatest principle, that every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought. Lots of battles in history were won by the side that planned for their enemy's special tactics, not by the strongest side or the best fighters. I hope this opens up some possibilities for you.</blockquote>

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