The Silver Shield Legionaries

[NagatsukaShumi]

Just been playing around with these units and wanted to ask, is there any real history behind these units? Did the Seleucids really rip off the Romans most famous military icon?

[lars573]

A little googleage turned up this,
http://www.dbaol.com/armies.htm

Which is appearently a wargaming site that uses combat rule from a miniature game. Any how it has army lists for about 180 peoples spread over europe and asis from like 4000 BC to the middle ages. Any way the link is to their army profiles page. Look for Numidian, and later seleucid. They have imitation legionaries in their troops lists at the bottom of each one.

[ICantSpellDawg]

why are the heavy horsemen called knights?
any historical significance?

[Catiline]

DBA is rather like Chess with dice. Each army is historically different, and relatively accurate in composition for a 12 unit roster. The idea is that the game provides fast play rules, for miniatures table top games to be palyerd in around an hour. To do this they class similar troop types as the same. Armenian Cataphracts are therefore regarded as falling under the knights category - ie heavily armoured horsemen