From: jeffjoh@microsoft.com
Date: Sun 10 Apr 1994 - 02:55:00 EEST
Aden Steinke spake :
> ... The Sun Dome Templars are true phalangites (in the manner of
> Alexander's Macedonian veterans), armed with pike and well drilled ...
I object. The typical Macedonian pikeman was lightly armoured. Yelmalions compare more directly in equipment to the armoured hoplites of Sparta and Athens.
The two most effective military systems to use a long, two-handed pike - the Swiss and Macedonians - both had lightly armoured infantry. In general, infantry had either heavy armour or bulky weapons, but not both. (Of course, they could also have neither).
Jeff Johnson
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