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    Default Re: Parthian Army composition

    Wiki's crazy at times, I have no idea why they call it a 'battle' when it was infact a massive campaign spanning at least 3 main fronts and god knows how many skirmishes...I have a copy of Han Shu, and I can't be bothered to count.

    What was true is that Han had a horse shortages for the next decade, which caused them to rely on allies for HAs while 'upgrading' their existing ones to (almost catank-like) heavy cavalry...

    ...ahh i think I went OT..lol sry.




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    Sorry I handn'T the time to read the whole thread, but maybe you should also consider the year we're talking about. I think the might be a difference of the army's composition of the 3rd and of the 1st century bc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ziegenpeter View Post
    Sorry I handn'T the time to read the whole thread, but maybe you should also consider the year we're talking about. I think the might be a difference of the army's composition of the 3rd and of the 1st century bc...
    Well the page states, that it was standard practice for the Parthians to have a lot of infantry. A sentence like this makes you think this goes way back
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    Quote Originally Posted by satalexton View Post
    Wiki's crazy at times, I have no idea why they call it a 'battle' when it was infact a massive campaign spanning at least 3 main fronts and god knows how many skirmishes...I have a copy of Han Shu, and I can't be bothered to count.

    What was true is that Han had a horse shortages for the next decade, which caused them to rely on allies for HAs while 'upgrading' their existing ones to (almost catank-like) heavy cavalry...

    ...ahh i think I went OT..lol sry.
    Fulfill your duties as a citizen of wikipedia and edit/fix that article! :D
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