>>538932817
that's what i'm thinking about. you could probably go with only 3 spears or two anti large cav/monsters but this would require the least amount of micro without having to form up a complete square where most units are idle

in this case the frontline gets attacked by most units and the cav suicides into the outer spears. the spears in the back are for flyers, peeling or simply reinforcing the frontline

sure if the enemy goes all the way around then you do have to micro your spear positions and focus fire the cav but that's a very low amount of battlefield awareness required because all units are already in the perfect place to support each other

you could argue that's a lot of inf and one could get more missile units but in my experience it's better to have one unobstructed firing unit than two who get constantly harassed