Armée Grecque Antique de Nico

This list represents Greek armies of the period following the Macedonian conquest and up until the Roman occupation. This is an army of transition that saw the hoplite gradually replaced by thureophoroi/thorakitai and eventually by the pike-armed phalanx. Some Greek states were slower to make this transition than others, but the high days of the hoplite were well and truly over, and soon even the most hide- bound were to abandon what had been one of the most successful fighting methods of ancient times.

This army list represents the Greek forces of the Peloponnesian War which broke out in 460 BC, although the term is usually reserved for the war between Athens and Sparta lasting from 431-404 BC. It also covers the Greek armies down to the Macedonian conquest and immediately afterwards. This army has obvious parallels with the early Greeks and has a similar, though slightly reduced, emphasis on the hoplite. I have allowed for more skirmishers and a greater proportion of light troops overall. I have drawn up a broad-based list and leave it to players to include Spartans only in armies fighting for Sparta – though Theban Sacred Band might be accorded the same status. One unit of light cavalry and one small unit of light infantry peltasts can form a combined hamippoi unit with both treated as sub-units of the other. Hamippoi were trained to fight alongside horsemen and keep up with them. So long as hamippoi infantry remain within 6" of their cavalry whilst both move their move rate is increased to 9".