Calm down, Godspeed and don't forget to form phalanx
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Finally taking commissions.
Infantry only no cavalry because I still suck at drawing horses π
I'd be better drawing bigtits than drawing a horse.
Feel free to discuss the prices in my dms.
But are they "militarily" fit? That's why I added it beside physically because those two coincide.
Like I've said in another post, it's one thing to be physically fit from manual labor, another to be an athlete and another a soldier.
It's one thing to be physically fit in manual labor. It's another to be one like an athlete like Pheidippides and another to be militarily fit. Combine all and you'll have a professional.
Unfortunately most of them aren't. Not every hoplite is like a Spartan or Macedonian.
Interestingly enough, these so-called militarily and physically "Unfit nerds", literally fit the bulk of the recruitment pool of a 5th Century hoplite levy of most Greek City-states and therefore can determine the viability or impracticality of that theory ππ»
And this in itself is proven by ancient Greek sources themselves. In Xenophon's Hellenika, Jason of Pharae made a similar account of citizen hoplite armies ππ»
Not only that few are of the fighting age, also fewer are those who train.
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Tried drawing horses
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More horses?!?
But question now is who's riding in it. π
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More horses?!?
But question now is who's riding in it. π
#art
Tried drawing horses
#art
This particular scene icks me a bit. Prior to the command to form a phalanx, Perdiccas orders a Synaspismos or "locked-shields" but the only difference is that when they did form a phalanx their shields weren't even overlappingly locked
This is how it should've been done ππ»
Somatophylaques is a growing group. Not every reenactment group has the budget to raise a decent looking Sarissaphoroi phalanx like the German Hetairoi or the Italian Simmachia Ellenon.
Cut them some slack.
