Historical Makedonian army

[iamroot]

Could anyone tell me the composition of a historical Makedonian army in EB? Thanks.

[stupac]

I was wondering the same thing a while back, but I did a forum search and in the archives I found a link to this file, here it is:

http://www.axifile.com?8113256

here's the thread also:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/archi...p/t-79234.html

It's a historical composition guide made by Eduorius. Seems to be pretty good to me and fairly consistent with what I'd read elsewhere. Here's an excerp from the guide on macedon:

Army at the time of Alexandros

Based on the army at Granicus. I use this model because it was Alexandros first battle against Persia and it shows the best of Makedonia at the moment (in later battles Alexandros had reinforcements like horse archers).
1700 Companions
800 Podromoi
1700 Thessaly cavalry
600 Greece
200 Paeonia
12000 phalanx
7000 allied Greek hoplites
3000 Hypaspists
6000 Thracian peltasts
5000 Greek mercenary peltasts
1000 Illyrians
500 Agrianians
500 Cretans

with EB units

1 General
Cavalry
1 unit of Heitaroi
1 unit of Podromoi
1 unit of Hippeis Thessalikoi
Infantry
3 units of Hoplitai
4 units of Pezhetairoi
2 units of Hypaspits
Light Infantry
3 units of Thraikoi Peltastai
2 units of Peltastai
1 unit of Agrianikoi Pelekephoroi
1 unit of Toxotai Kretikoi

* Some units were too small or don’t exist for Makedonia like the Paeonian cavalry or the Illyrian light infantry so I ommited them. Other EB units have more than what Alexandros used, but I ommited that too. I also omitted the Greek mercenary cavalry because they were too few. With the Hypaspits, one of this was the agema so I think u can use the Pheraspidai as placeholders.


Army at the the time of the wars with Rome

Based on the army of Phillip V at Cynoscephalae

16000 Phalanx
1500 Mercenaries
4000 Peltasts (2000 Thracians)
2000 Illyricum light infantry
1000 Macedonian cavalry
1000 Thessalian cavalry

with EB units

1 General
Cavalry
1 unit of Hippeis Thessalikoi
Light Infantry
1 units of Thraikoi Peltastai
1 units of Peltastai
Infantry
2 - 3 units of mercenaries (Triballi, Galatian, Cretan, Agriania, etc)
5 - 6 units of phalanx


* I wrote 2 or 3 units of mercenaries so that one of them could be in instead of the Illyrians who only appear for Epeiros. Some of the nationalities I used as example were at the battle of Pydna too.

It gives some good background which I think can then be used to get ideas for a realistic army for yourself. The guide may not be perfect, but it has good info and even has details on strategies and diagrams of battle formations. Mad props to Eduorius if he's still around for putting that work together. Hope that helps.