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Old October 2nd, 2011, 06:25 AM   #1

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Your Ancient Super Army?


You can pick a from a combination of different countries from the ancient world.

Best army, best weapon, best general....the best of what you believe would create a super military in the ancient world and tell us why?
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Old October 2nd, 2011, 06:33 AM   #2

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You can pick a from a combination of different countries from the ancient world.

Best army, best weapon, best general....the best of what you believe would create a super military in the ancient world and tell us why?
These are the armies i would pick

Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Spartans
Persian


And these are the 4 Generals i would pick
Alexander The Great
Cyrus the Great
Hannibal Barca
Julius Caesar

The weapons would mainly be Roman weapons
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Old October 2nd, 2011, 06:35 AM   #3

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Egyptian,
Roman,
Persian,
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Alexander,
Caesar,
H. Barca
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Old October 2nd, 2011, 08:02 AM   #4

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My army would be 40% legionary infantry, 15% cataphracts, 10% horse archers, 20% archer+spearmen units, 15% elephants and light infantry/cavalry.
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Spartan hoplites, companion cavalry, Cretan archers, and Hannibal telling everyone what to do.
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Old October 2nd, 2011, 10:48 AM   #6

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Well, the best ancient army ever would probably be the ultimate evolution of ancient armies: the Roman legions of the 1st century. So pick one brilliant general, such as Hannibal and give him 10 1st century Roman legions and se what he can do.

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Old October 2nd, 2011, 11:22 AM   #7

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Hannibal would want far more cavalry than what a legion had with it.
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Old October 2nd, 2011, 11:27 AM   #8

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Take Cretan archers, Roman engineers, Parthian cataphracts, Germanic shock troops, Macedonian phalangites, Roman legionaries, Hunnic mounted archers for light cavalry support, Homer and the bard who created Beowulf for moral support, Roman and Indian surgeons, Roman logistics units, Ptolemaic polyremes if naval warfare is involved, and finally Indian elephants to scare enemies. To command this army, Hannibal Barca would be the overall commander, with Germanicus controlling logistics (due to his application of logistics in his German campaigns), Belisarius to command the troops (given his use of little resources to conquer areas), and a Carthaginian admiral for the navy.
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Assyrian and Greek. Roman of course...

Ashurbanipal and Alexander the Great.
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Roman of course
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