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The noobs will tell you that Alexander did that couse Persians was noobs and not couse he and his army was the best.

Yes they was fighting but they was worst than original Greek hoplites. Roman hoplites lost to Gauls of Vrenus when Greek hoplites win Gauls of Vrenus (diferent Vrenus this time). Carthagian hoplites...

Gauls lost against south Greeks, lost against Antigonus Gonatas, against Seleusid and then against Pergamus. They only beat a bad Macedonian general. Thats all. So the quastion is. Why Greeks was so...

How they was not Greek army when they had pikemen? They had Greeko-eastern cavalry and Greeko-Galatian infantry. Pikemen,Hypaspistai,Galatian swords,Cataphract,Companions,Horse Archers.

Parthians was weaker than Seleusid. The only reason that they become strong was that Antiochos lost from Romans and after him their empire start to become smaller couse the next Kings was bad....

Roman legion was always weak against cavalry and of cource couldnt win alone into battle.Every time that Romans try to win only with legions they fail. For example against Hanibal they lost four...

Read for Perseus from Plutarch and for Philip V from Polybius. That two historians told us that they was bad Kings and Generals as their army was when the generation of generals that Romans had from...

could beat* Romans

Romans was just lucky couse Alexander die young or he could take Carthage and Rome for fun after he was ending with India. After his death his officers(diadochoi) prefered to fight eatch other and...

Egyptians made many revolts against Persians and most of times they asked help from Greeks or had Greek mercenaries to help them. So its not strange that Egyptians call him as liberator and God. Also...

Well if we check the Alexander campaign from one side and Romans wars against Carthage and specially Greece from the other we will see that Alexander win couse of his strategy skill and great army...

You still cant understund that the problem of Macedonian at Pydna was that they had not the cavalry of Alexander and the fact that the pikes had not the train to make reforming. The phalanx of second...

Romans had not profesional army against Pyrrhus but Pyrrhus had not profesional army too against Romans. Was like an averange phalanx agains an averange legion. This is the most important reason that...

I think now we agree for first time just you didnt realized that yet :P. The battles hoplites vs pikemen vs legions was about who had better general, more profesional army and more cavalry. At...

Of cource Polibius was not objective at the Macedonian wars as he was not at Punic and Cleomenian War(226-222 b.c.). He didnt wrote about Roman history and army couse he wanted to help Greeks to...

The Greek armys after Alexander become worst for many reason. First of all,Greeks made to many civil wars(like 25 civil wars from Alexander death 323b.c. until 165 b.c. into Greece,Syria,Egypt and...

The Peloponnesian units could be like that:

1)Spartan Hoplites(All profesional Spartan citizen)
1)Spartan Sacred band(300 elite)
2)Periokoi Hoplites
3)Elite Periokoi Hoplites(like in the battle...

Thessalian cavalry was better than Theban cavalry.That was the reason that Thebans and Athenians was using Thessalian mercenary cavalry before and during Peloponisian war. The first time that...

Macedonians had always many and strong cavalry just Phillip II made that cavalry heavier putting hoplite armour and helmet.Also he gives them bigger spear and made them strong enought to beat...

Ancient Greek intelligentsia, poets, philosophers, sientist, arstist etc...was fighing at war like other citizen. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Socrates,Platon, Phidias and many other did that and that was...

Sparta after the peloponisian war was so rich couse of Messinian land and the comand at the aegean sea and the only that needed was peace with Persian Empire and they should focus to any Greek...

Yeah they lost at wars as Hanibal lost but the Romans lost many battles too. The Romans win the wars and lost 50% of battles. They win the wars couse of diplomacy and manpower not couse they was...

The Greek hoplites had a circular shiled with one hadle before 650 b.c and they carry one javalink too with spear and sword...so before 650 b.c. was like gladiator light hoplites. After 650 b.c. they...

Pyrrhus beat them two times and there is not excuses...Pyrrhus had elephants but Romans had more cavalry than Pyrrhus 6k vs 4k and that was couse of Italians allys...if you say that eles was...

Hoplites could win in frond attack the legions couse of the stronger shiled wall and spears. Was more flexible than Pikemen and they could avoid the flanking from legions easier than Pikemen...Also...

You say that Pyrrhus win couse of elephants but you forgot that at Cynoscephale and Pydna Romans broke the left side of Macedonian infantry couse of Numidian elephant too. So dont make excuses all...

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