Re: Phalangite armour?
Oh, I've no artistic aspirations; that would be my little brother (who's often kinda annoyed at the way I'm actually somewhat more talented than him, but never bother honing my skills through hard work like he does). I'm the one who studies Political Science at the Uni and reads thick and analytical history books for fun.
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Re: Phalangite armour?
No, not really. If the Romans at Carrhae could withstand hours of HA fire without routing, why would the professional phalangites do the same?Yeah, but I still think it would cause panic and the phalangites would trample themselves to death
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Re: Phalangite armour?
One problem with missile combat was the fact it was pretty poor at actually routing people. You could totally decimate helpless units with extended fire, and the survivors still stood their ground. Which is of course why it was very rare for anyone to rely solely on firepower - pretty much everyone had or developed some proper shock arm to charge and break such shredded and dispirited formations which would nonetheless have taken ages to entirely reduce with missiles.
"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."
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Re: Phalangite armour?
I'm playing sauromatae and in fighting selukia I have trouble killing 3 phalagites (medium or heavy) with 6 units of horse archers without running out of ammo. I even restrict firing to their backs, even still I can only reduce them by half through missile fire, after that I have to use hit and run chargers to finish them off. Still, I appreciate have some challenge, I still decimate selukid armies when the computer calculates odds such as 1:2 or I think 9:40 was my best when I used 120 horse archers to kill 800 selukids(5 phalagites + support). I was even unhappy with myself because I took 27 casualties that battle. I think the extra armor as well as the cohesion and professionalism of the phalagites is appropriate and realistic, and without it certainly battles against phalagites using nomadic factions would be way too one sided.
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