The infantry consisted of Libyan-Phoenicians, people, moulded as a result of Libyan land colonization by Phoenicians, was the basis of Carthaginian army. Libyan-Phoenician infantry was armed after the Hellenistic pattern. The heavy infantry wor...
The armies of Alexander first encountered elephants when they engaged the army of Emperor Por of India. The fighting towers were first put into use by Pyrrhus, the King Epirus. Since then, elephants with fighting towers were adopted by almost a...
The Macedonian sarissofors (sarissa=5.5 meter spear) phalanx was developed by King Philippe of Macedonia (the father of Alexander the Great) into a weapon feared throughout the ancient world. Only the Legionaires of the mighty Roman Army were a...
In the Roman Empire, the auxiliary infantry that had consisted of disjointed detachments each fi ghting according to its own tactics was formed into a single force and organized according to the principle of cohorts. The set consists of 45 warr...
Cataphracts - entirely covered with plate metal armour - came into the world during last centuries B.C. Armed with long spear, formed in tight lines that riders were able to break through line of heavy infantry and make them to run away. During...
