Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-24696651-20150209003446

(Yeah... I'd've used Thermopylae as an example, but Shills beat me to it.)

The archers behind the phalanx fired at the men descending from the walls. Those who couldn't instead sealed (potential) gaps in the phalanx. Some of the infantry (I'm presuming Luciun's, because the shield wall is between the phalanx and the passages of the walls to block of the phalanx), clustered around the exits from the walls, killing the dismounted cavalry before they could gather in any great number.

The some of the archers with Luciun continued to fire at the shield wall, which had been disordered by being charged in the rear. Most of them fired at the Great Cavalry at close range, killing perhaps twenty of them. The cavalry that engaged were swamped by the sheer numbers of the archres, preventing them from withdrawing and recharging, and the horses, who (presumably) couldn't dodge, where killed by axes. His knights, because they were charging from behind, easily killed many of the shield wall, whilst the phalanx managed to kill a few of the shield wall with them now being threatened from the rear.