Hippotoxotai - the dread of light infantry

[Kugutsu]

Sounds like my Zrahakir Netadzik (cataphract archers, I guess) army when I was playing my Hayasdan campaign. That army first took me the east, then as two half stacks took me Charax and Persepolis. They were briefly reunited on an expedition back home to Ani Kamah for RnR and retraining (though I only lost probably a total of 100 men in all their battles). They were then divided in two again for the conquest of Anatolia, before being recombined to push the Ptolomaics first out of Antioch, then along the Phoenician coast back into Egypt. In Alexandria they got some reinforcements (4 units were despatched from Ani Kamah to make up numbers) before finally conquering the last Ptolie city of Diospolis Megale, thus rather fittingly concluding my campaign and bringing me ultimate victory. By the end all of them had at least 3 silver chevrons, and were the equal of anything that could be thrown at them. They ate Kleurichon agemata and galatian agema for breakfast, and specialised in slaughtering elephants... Greek bodyguard cavalry didnt stand a chance, and even the Seleukid cataphracts were wavering before their (that is, my) charge even struck... I grew very attached to that army. Often as not it was split up to do different missions, but I always considered it as a single unit.