Macedonian organisation IMO doesn´t mean troops armed with the Sarissa, I think the macedonian organisation just was the most advanced one in the Hellenic world and easily applied to a Hoplite Phalanx
Would Xanthippus even have had the time to actually train Carthage´s citizens in the use of the Sarissa?
Remember, they were a militia force that had not been called to fight for a very long time.
Most of Carthage´s armies at that time were mostly made up from Lybians and mercenaries armed in their native style.
Just as the Ptolemaic system of Kleruchoi had fallen in disprepair before and after Raphia, this would most likely have happened with Carthage too.
Just organising them would have been a daunting task.
They would have had to learn to fight in their own units, to follow certain commands, their officers would have to be trained too aso.
To reequip them with the quantity of Sarissa and train them in their use would again take a long time.
On accord of the twelve thousand spears, is there a source mentioned in this thread?
Is it Fabius Pictor? Does anyone else mention them?
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