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“The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Pikes as thick as a forest!
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Nice but you made some mistakes in the discription, and as I'm a Diadochi Wars fanboy, I MUST point them out ^^:
"are a phalanx of pikemen modelled on their hoplite forebears and, subsequently, the Alexandrian pike reforms."
1 - they were not modelled after the hoplites, being a regular army instead of militia, in terms of recruitment, and being modelled after (insert some fancy greek name wich I forgot)'s Peltasts in their fighting style.
2 - I'd say Macedonian instead of Alexandrian. You see, Alex didn't realy reformed anything, he just used it in a great way. His dad, Philip did, but then 'Philipean' sounds ridicoulus, hence the Macedonian reforms. Also you could say the Diadochi reforms, as they subsequently improved the phalanx tactics (more untrained men, longer pikes, stronger shields but less armour)
I don't claim to be an expert on the matter :P
I'm not talking about the pike phalanx in general, but as far as I know this particular "white shield" unit started as Hoplites and gradually changed to a pike unit at the time of Alexander while still keeping true to their white shield traditions.
Anyway that's the reference in the mod XD
I love such discussions. If you would like you can talk all about it on the forum :)
The term Leukaspides first appears ~250 BC, if memory serves, but I always might be wrong. Already as a pike unit, in service of the Antagonids. And I hate to say that but MU is not working realy well on my phone... I do most of stuff on my phone. XD
Ps. Iphicrates! (insert some fancy greek name wich I forgot)
Thx for the info. I'll update the post on MU then.
I don't know what's the problem of MU on the phone. I can easily use the mobile version and the full site on Chrome on my S5 :/