Though initially its presence or absence in warfare did not make much of a difference yet in the subsequent wars when more innovations came to be made in these weapons, these weapons proved to be real assets. The Javelins thrown are also fairly accurate, and are more likely to hit the player than most other enemy-fired projectiles. It throws piercing Javelins at the player, which can deal a lot of damage, especially if in Expert Mode or higher difficulties. It is believed that many of these would be mercenary troops which were hired from the regions lying on the outskirts of Greece. The Hoplite is an enemy that spawns in Marble Caves. There were an increase in the use of light infantry like peltasts (javelin throwers) and archers as well. Hoplite shield design was incredibly varied. Peloponnesian Warĭuring the Peloponnesian war, a slight innovation was observed. Then when those kind of worked I made a special set for (Fig 2) Agrianians (Alexanders famous light infantry allies) which emulate raised bronze designs of the period). They can also be seen on the 'Old Hoplites Never Die' page. Another advantage of attacking in such a manner was that it kept the army of soldiers alert during a combat at a particular time rather than to just be limited up to the first few ranks. I started making a set of hoplite test shields (below) from various web sources (Fig:1). These frontal attacks were very difficult for the enemy to handle. The phalanx presented a shield wall along with a bunch of spears pointing to the enemy thereby actually performing frontal attacks on them. The hoplites would lock their shields together and then few of the foremost of soldiers would then project their spears out over the first rank of shields. The Hoplite Phalanx belonging to the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece was a formation in which the hoplites would line up in ranks in close order. Though there are no records which point out that there was any drill practice which was carried out but there are glimpses on vases as well as on statues which indicate faintly towards a drill movement.īut one thing which can be stated with much certainty is that there was no formal training for side arms like Axe or sword since these were considered to side weapons. It would be an impossible task to even think that the hoplites did not undergo any formal training to be a part of the army.
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