This is something I devised while playing with the Greeks as I was looking for an advantage on the battlefield. You all know that the Greek's have crap for Cavalry, so something was needed to give me the edge, and this tactic works about 78% of the time. The 22% is human error! This tactic requires major perfect timing and micromanaging. But, Im positive all of you can do it, just takes a little bit of practice.

Faction: Created for Greek's. But any will work.
Type: Field Battle
Situation: Offense (Attacking)
Info: Hard to perform. Requires simultaneous timing.

Troops needed:
10 Armoured Hoplites. Spartan's would abviously be the best!!!!
5 Archer's
4 Onagers
1 General

1. So, do as the pictures show. The second pic is just to clear it up, make it easier to read. Anyway, once your main army is close enough to almost begin the battle, attack with your archers. Go for any units that you feel might cause a problem.

2. As your archers are firing, and the enemy is probably advancing now, ATTACK with your far right 2 Hoplite units. Attack them at the side, and as they hit, attack with your main army. Be sure you watch your archers so they dont hit your own men!!!!

3. By now, you also should have stopped your onagers from fireing, as they would hurt your men!!!!

This tactic works great for causing the enemy to rout really fast, rather then fighting till the death. Like I said before, this requires next to perfect timing as you can see, and is obviously up for minor changes, but the general idea works awesome!

If you are worried about the enemy flanking you before you can perform your maneouvers, then make sure to concentrate all Archer and Onager fire power on their units that will try to flank you. If you manage to get Creten Archers, then you will not have to worry about it, because they will cause the flanking unit to rout, via flame arrows. Even Greek regular Archers will do the trick!

Anyway, questions and comments are welcome!
Enjoy!
Unde