[Army Composition] What does a late Hellenistic army look like?

[gamegeek2]

Novus Ordo Mundi represents this stage in Hellenistic army development - there's only two surviving phalanx units, the Pontic Chalkaspides and the Ptolemaic Agema Klerouchon; the others are gone, replaced with a large number of thureos-bearing troops: Euzonoi, Thureophoroi, their armored counterparts, Spathaphoroi, and even some imitation legionaries. The Hellenic states also have access to Kataphraktoi, should they take back Syria and Mesopotamia from Armenian hands.

In comparison with Rome, their infantry will still be less cost-effective, but they will have access to effective lancers at lower cost (late Roman armies will be able to field native Contarii and Catafractarii, but at higher prices than the Hellenes or Eastern factions).