Quote Originally Posted by abou
The 3,000 infantry of Pergamon at Magnesia were described as peltastai, which could mean a number of things. The more that I think about it, a pike phalanx makes more sense, but 3,000 doesn't particularly fit well with any deployment scheme of the phalanx.

Didnt the term peltastai get used later on with the hyspatists and such as well in the sucessor kingdoms. My history is really hazy and I'm just getting back into it, but it seems I remember there always being issues talking about the later Hyspstists and elite troops or the peltastai, it seems some authors mentioned the hyspatists themselves of being lighter like the peltasts.

Much confusion it seems, hopefully that didn't sound retarded.