After seeing your phalanx pics, I had been making some test with bare metal figures, and I think I am going to base the phalanx with two figures per short frontal [with 2(pikes 45º); 4(pikes 60º) or 5(pikes up) figures in depth].
I used to base 3 figures per short frontal, other times go for basing them in long frontal. It is time to standarize.
Thanks again for the aerial pics Angor