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    Default What should an authentic Hellenistic army look like?

    This often comes up when I'm "building" a stack for the AI when it sends some half-baked 3-unit-army to attack me. I spawn units in the stack to make it up to a proper, balanced force. Or at least I try.

    I usually build a Hellenistic Successor army to be roughly thus:
    1 x Argyraspides or some other elite phalanx
    2 x Pezhetairoi or Kleruchoi or other medium phalanx
    4-6 x Levy or Native phalanx
    2 x Thureophoroi

    Then add something like:
    2 x Peltastai/Akontistai
    1-2 x slingers
    1-2 x Toxotai

    Rest fill with cavalry (Prodromoi, Lonchophoroi, Hippakontistai). To me that seems a balanced force, with line infantry, skirmishers and cavalry.

    Does it look even remotely like a proper Successor army? Too many skirmishers? Too many weaker phalangites? Not enough other infantry?
    Last edited by QuintusSertorius; 07-16-2008 at 01:21.
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