Spartan Preview
Logades Strategou: (This unit is the general unit. We make the conjecture that the general will pick his own trusted men along the homoioi and periokoi as his bodyguard in battle. We don't make hippeis(300) a general unit because then every general could have the hippeis as his bodyguard something strongly inaccurate. Maybe the player who want to p lay historical accurate will choose hippeis only for his kings (if we make 2 general units avalaible) but the AI will not and they will fill the map with hippeis. So the unit(you can see the king among them):
Hippeis(the known 300): For this unit we set a cap of 2(one for each king). According to Plutarch among the hipeis were 2 men who were the king's bodyguards(not only in battle they follow him everyehere), they were usually won in olympic games, that's why they wear their kotynos(olive wreath) on their helmets and they carry the dokana of dioskouroi emblems on their shields. I manage to represent that, as you will see, by removing the st bearer from the unit and in his place and in officer's one, i made the two king's bodyguard with the dokana. I tried also in vain to find archaiological evidence of the rest of the unit shield emblems. I found though 2 nowadays representations of them. Both of them represent the king and his 2 bodyguards with with the dokana besides him. In the first one i saw the rest of the unit with various mora's emblems although in the second one the unit had shield emblems of heroic families of Sparta. I choose to represent them with emblems of the heroic emblems of Sparta for the reasons i will explain..
Historically the 3 ippagretai(commanders of 100 men of the hippeis) choose who will join the hippeis with men among the mores and then they report to the ephors about their choices. We may presume that they choose the best warriors and of course the richest and best connected who usually are descendants of Sparta's heroic families,(this not mean that they were not fearsome warriors) who want to be close to the king as it happens everywhere in the world. Also hippeis was an honorary regimnet which somehow should be distinct from the rest of the army. Furthermore we use various mora and Λ symbols to 2 more units (logades strathgou and late Spartans) and it will too much to use the various mora emblems to the unit.
For those reasons i choose to represent them with the Sparta's heroic symbols and i think i m not far from what historically happened.
Another think i want to mention about this unit is that (i think Plutarch say that also) the first ranks of the hipeis wear tall crests on their helmets. Unfortunately i can't represent only the first ranks wearin it. So if the first rank(s) wear it then about 40-60 out of 300 wear it. So again i can't represent only the first ranks wearing it that's why i choose 60 men to wear it (2/5) to have a bit more tall crests in the first ranks. We can increase this number if you guys like it.. See for yourselves:
Now the homoioi (mores): Generally where you see lateral helmet is a representation of an ofiicer low or high ranking but i will explain the officer sys in the end. Also the soldiers you will see with Spartan heroic families emblems(about 10% of them exist) inside the units will have 90% lateral crest to represent again officers or high rankers. So
Mora Amyclon
Mora Elous
Mora Geronthron
Mora Limnatidos
Mora Pylou
Mora Sparths
Mora Stenyclarou
Now the periocoi who along with the homoioi serve as heavy hoplites in the phalanx.
Skiritai: Highly respectable by all the Spartan society Skiritai serve as hoplites and as scouts in front of the main army when the king marches.
Skirritai hoplites:
Skiritai katascopoi:
Periocoi hoplites
Neodamodeis: They were "new citizens" as their name means but rarely Spartans give them political rights. Although they receive a piece of land and land was the most notable asset of wealth in Spartan society. So land in Sparta means wealth and wealth means armor. The neodamodeis can bear a descent piece of armour to fight as hoplites. They were either helots who the Spartans honoured them for their great services or foreigners who serve Sparta (Xenophon himselfe was one of them. Agesilaos king of Sparta gave him land to honour as his friend and frind of Sparta). The most notable neodamodeis were the hoplites of Brasidas.
About the officers now.. I represent the Spartan military system with various ways(lateral crest and shields from heroic families). So inside the homoioi(mores) and periocoi units i gave to some men special helms and shields to represent them beside the normal officer of the unit who now is the famous lochagos. Lets start..
Moras lochagos: He command about 1/4 of the Mora and i made a unique skin for every mora bearing his mora's emblem
Periocoi lochagos: Lochagos of the periocoi regiments
Neodamodeis lochagos mainly commander of light troops
Penthcontarc: This one is the commander of about 50(the numbers varied from time to time) men. Although i did the maths correct to give only 3 of those inside the mora's regiments, I reallize that CA gave a bit of radomness in the variantmeshes system so you will find about 3(2-4) of them in every mora regiment representing the Penthconrch (fancy corinthian helm with distinctive lateral crest).
Enomotarch: Again the same as the penthcontarch, he is an inside unit, low ranking officer who commands 10-20 men(also the naumber varied from time to time). You will find (due to randomness i told you) about 15 of them in a unit.
And some fighting:
(The rest of the troops petasts/navy etc i will saw u in the proper preview)
P.S.1The ui you saw will not be included in the mod is Rafkos's creation for DeI i just use it for me.
P.S.2 If any of you guys attempt to rep me you should also rep jjpower who helped me a lot and of course Morfeasnikos the great shield maker!
P.S.3 This is not the final version. Some changes will happen such us shorter tunics.