Great idea! I love procedural content, and this really suits the Battlestar theme in particular.

Also great name - Xenophon would be proud!

That video just rehashes the basic organization and doctrine of a pike phalanx and the equipment given to its soldiers. It says nothing about the efficacy of the phalanx in an actual battle against armies of the Celtic tradition. That such a formation is "invulnerable" from the front is p...

I just had the same experience, during the Pontus campaign with pike phalanxes and now with the early Rome campaign with hoplites. I had a line of mixed citizen/armoured/vet hoplites, and during two battles that whole line was charged - about 16 units, and over half of them were disrupted on impact ...