Quote Originally Posted by ARCHIPPOS View Post
abt the formation being screwed up...
is it so important though to make contact from one side of the line to the other simulteniously??? i mean the important thing was having a continuous battleline shoulder to shoulder not a parade-like straight formation... they lost some cohesion sure and even some stamina but on the other hand they gained some momentum,no???

anyway i'm just making logical assumptions here , i'm no expert...
In Hoplite warfare when you have good cohesion it will help in the Phalanx warfare, running for a while with all your men makes you lose some cohesion.

And I never think of an Hoplite line as straight, well yes initially but afterwards I'd like to see it as the waves on a roch, bending and changing shape to paths of less resistance. Something like that.

Oh yeah, him. Ignore that nonsense.
And ignore his crap while you're at it.