Click here one of the best book written about Parthia by George Rawlinson. I love Guttenberg, he also wrote all ancient dinasties of Iran / Persia including sassanids.
They of course used infantry but in field battles cavalry dominated their ranks.
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Click here one of the best book written about Parthia by George Rawlinson. I love Guttenberg, he also wrote all ancient dinasties of Iran / Persia including sassanids.
They of course used infantry but in field battles cavalry dominated their ranks.
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Re: Parthian Army composition
Incredible... Ancient Persia was the last EB time frame major power that i didn't pay much attention to. It will definetly change now...Originally Posted by Atraphoenix
Thanks a lot
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Re: Parthian Army composition
Our Parthian guy says that a 10:1 ratio between horse archers and cataphracts seems to have been norm in Early Parthian period. When they became more settled and lorded over more resources apparently the number of cataphracts increased.
This is of course mobile field armies when settled and the norm when nomadic.
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