Egyptian AOR: 3,000 men per province (7)
Professional: 10,500 men
Allied: 3,500 men
Levy: 7,000 men
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TOTAL=21,000 men
HEAVY TROOPS=40% max. 8,400
LIGHT TROOPS=50% max. 10,500
-ARCHERS=20% max. 4,200
CAVALRY=20% max. 4,200
ELITE=10% max. 2,100
ROYAL GUARD: 2,100 (professional)(10,500 points)
-Chrysaspides ('gold-shields'): 1,200 (6,000 points)
->The Gold-Shields are so named by their gold-plated shields, which depict the Sun God, Helios; they comprise part of the newly formed Basilikón Agema or Royal Guard. Formed by veterans, matured men, covered by scars, soldiers who have fought in half a hundred battles all over Asia. They serve as the core of the phalanx, with long sarissas. They wear bronze armor, Phrygian helmets and heavy Argive shields. They are almost unequaled in the battlefield.
-Hetaroi ('companions'): 850 (4,250 points)
->The Companions form the Royal Guard of Horse, the personal bodyguard of the King; they are usually leaded by the King himself to battle. The Companions wear heavy armor, with bronze muscular cuirasses, greaves and Boeotioan helmets; they carry xystons, heavy thrusting spears, and kopis, should the xyston be broken in a charge. Their saddles are adorned with leopard pelts (while the King's is a lion's).
-Elephants Corps: 50 (250 points)
->Nimble and agile African elephants, swarthy and resilient they are still a magnificent weapon in the battlefield, able to scare horses and to smash soldiers in the ground.
REGULAR TROOPS: 8,400 (professional)(18,200 points)
-Hypaspistai ('shield carriers'): 2,000 (4,000 points)
->The Shield Carriers are nimble and agile troops, wielding large aspis and dorys, wearing light linothorax and Thrakian helmets. They are the flanks of the Phalanx, avoiding them to be hammered or circled. Their lighter equipment make them able to move swiftly to counter cavalry or infantry charges.
-Pezhetairoi ('Foot Companions'): 5,000 (10,000 points)
->The Foot Companions as Alexander liked to name them were the core of the Hellenistic battle-line and comprised most of the battle phalanx. They wield the sarissas, wearing bronze helmets (Phrygian caps) and linothorax reinforced with bronze scales, a small Illyrian shield covering their torso and arms, but leaving them both hands to hold the long pike. They are cleruchoi, Hellenes (Ionians, Greeks, Macedonians...) living in colonies in Egypt; they are called to arms in case of war, in the meanwhile they plow their own lands.
-Epilektoi ('Picked'): 1,400 (4,200 points)
->Leaded by an Hipparchus these are the army's cavalrymen, lighter than the 'companion cavalry', but still heavy cavalrymen. They wield thrusting lances and aspis, round bronze shields. The cavalrymen wear linothorax. They are named that way because they are chosen cavalrymen of Hellenic origin, good horsemen and valiant warriors. With the Companion they form the core of the heavy cavalry.
ALLIED TROOPS: 3,500 (4,700 points)
-Hoplitai: 1,400 (heavy infantry)(3,000 points)
->Greek men levied in Naucratis and other hellenic colonies in the Nile Delta. They fight in the classical hoplite way; a thick battle line, a bronze shield-wall, with short thrusting spears, the dorys, wearing bronze armor and helmets.
-Machimoi Hippeis: 1,700 (light cavalry) (3,600)
Local minor nobility, able to fight on horse with decent abilities. Swift and less armored than their Hellenic counterparts they still comprise a good cavalry force, better for screening, skirmishing and harassing the enemy than for galloping in thunderous charges. They are lightly armored and armed.
-Toxotai Syriakoi: 400 (archers)(400 points)
Expert archers from Syria, conscripted from the lands nearest to Egypt.
LEVIED TROOPS: 7,000 (7,000 points)
-Peltasts: 2,000 (light troops, missile)(2,000 points)
They carry a crescent-shaped wicker shield called pelte, and wield three javelins and a short-sword. They wear little armor aside from their helmets.
-Toxotai: 1,800 (light troops, archers)(2,000 points)
Archers, whose importance had grown after the contact with Asian peoples, who favored the bow as weapon, something ancient greek considered effeminate.
-Machimoi Phalangitai: 5,200 (light infantry)(5,000 points)
Levied and conscripted locals, trained in the Macedonian way as phalangites. They carry long sarissas, Illyrian shields and Phrygian caps, but lack both the heavier armor and the battle prowess of their Hellenic counterparts. Antigonus himself created the corps because the scarce Hellenic phalangites available.
TOTAL POINTS: 25,400 points
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Alexandria, capital of Lower Egypt
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