What’s the deal with charging infantry?

[Montmorency]

1. ofc, take Xenophon's account of Cunaxa, flutes gave the rhythm, and the "awareness" of nearby companions made everyone try to stick together...

2. run as fast as people with 30ish kg of gear on, who had to fight after the "run"; the Spartans went for an "advancing shieldwall", most likely they walked: their intent was to keep formation "intact"...

3. no, sometimes it was a tactical move by the commander to flank the opponent, if we take again Cunaxa placing hoplites to the left of a river would be suicidal, as they would jump into it :P

I don't know if we could take these post P-War mercenaries' tactics to be representative of Greek warfare in the 6th and 5th centuries.

AFAIK only the Spartans tried to use it as a flanking tactic.

[TheLastDays]

I don't know if we could take these post P-War mercenaries' tactics to be representative of Greek warfare in the 6th and 5th centuries.

AFAIK only the Spartans tried to use it as a flanking tactic.

You do realize that the EB timeframe is way past the 6th and 5th centuries BC, right?

[Montmorency]

Sure. I'm just being needlessly pedantic because I'm a silly ***.

[TheLastDays]

Yeah, the problem is, the thread was about problems with charging infantry in EB and if those will carry over into EB II, so it was never about hoplites in the archaic era