Patris= "Land of our fathers", from "Pat(e)r"=father and the ending -"is" which denominates place.
Later on by the time of EB, it had evolved into "homeland".
compare that to
Country= "land of the count".
I think it is time to re-legalize some of the most important words in IndoEuropean common dictionary that the Nazis appropriated and never quite gave it back. "Fatherland" is too important to be left to them.
What it all comes down to, and this is why I think this AAR is hilarious, is that the Ubermensch (superman in german) of the Baktrians would be IndoIranians like the Kamboja (light IndoIranian cav.) or the Bahlikas (Baktrian cav.) and one of its elite infantry would be the Sreni swordaxe carrying guild infantry. They would be the big bulk of the army with hellenic phallanx and Baktrion agema as a smaller part of the army. Elite cavalry and the bodyguard would deffinitely be Hellenic, but the majority of the troops wouldn't.
In fact Baktrians were the most accepting and "non-xenophobic" of all the Diadochoi. Which makes this AAR all the more amusing.
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