Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
to cope with Makedonian advances in phalanx warfare, changes in traditional hoplite equipment have been made. Lighter armed but faster hoplitai now can chase down and deal more effectively with the threat of peltastai, and the more elite hoplitai have a better chance, with some help, of staving off the Makedonian troops.

Just a question with regards to this, were regular hoplites still slow and heavily armoured, and it was only the outrunners who had reduced armour?

I ask becuase if regular hoplite equiptment was made lighter to allow them to be faster, then surely they shouldn't fight in the RTW phalanx since this makes them go at a snails pace (Unless it is turned off, in which case they cannot use their 12 foot pears, thus makin ghte longer spear pointless)?