Ancient Weapon Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who likes all kinds of ancient, roman, medieval, renaissance, and other old weapons and units from the past.
Baktrioi Hippotoxotai (Baktrian Horse-Archers)
The Greeks and Iranians of Baktria had a significant problem when it came to combatting the mounted archers of the steppe, notably that they had no mounted archers to combat the nomads with! In addition to hiring nomads of their own, the Baktrian kings began to field a professional corps of their own horse archers, taken from local Greek and Iranian stock. These men are armed with composite bows and nomadic-style blade. Their armor is purely Hellenistic, however, being a scale-covered linothorax, Illyrian shield, and Phrygian helmet.
Artwork from Europa Barbarorum (a mod for Rome:Total War)