Special: Trained at the Stratópedo Misthophóron (Mercenary Camp) special building.

Function: This is a 'mercenary' unit, with all the traits that designation entails.

They were often stationed on the flanks of the traditional pike phalanx as a flexible link between the heavier pikemen and the cavalry wings. Thureophoroi could skirmish, as well as fight in a phalanx when necessary. Thureophoroi were a 3rd century development on the Peltast and wore no body armor, but did wear sturdy leather boots for quick movement. However it has been suggested that the thureos was brought to Greece after Pyrrhus of Epirus' campaigns in Italy, as his Oscan allies and Roman enemies used the scutum. Thracian and Illyrian infantry probably adopted the shield before the Greeks. The thureos was probably originally an adapted form of a Celtic shield.

They also usually wore an iron or bronze Macedonian helmet. They were armed with a long thrusting spear, javelins and a sword. History: The thureophoroi (singular: thureophoros) was a type of infantry soldier, common in the 3rd to 1st century BCE, who carried a large oval shield called a thureos which had a type of metal strip boss and a central spine.Elite: Plumed and crested Thracian-style Hellenistic helmets.Advanced: Non-plumed Thracian-style Hellenistic helmets.Appearance: All levels carry the famous 'thureos' celtic-style oval shield, although the center boss is an oval shape, rather than butterfly as in Celtic examples.Specific Name: Thureophóros Misthophóros.Generic Name: Mercenary Thureos Spearman.They are mercenaries, with all the traits that designation entails. Function: Mediocre archer compared to the Persian ranged units, but the Nubians are quicker on their feet.Specific Name: Kousít Misthophóros Toxótis.Ranged Armament: Sling and leather bullet pouch.Individually very vulnerable to ranged units and swordsmen when not in Syntagma formation. History: When pressed hard by the fellow successor states, the Ptolemies of Egypt began to arm and train the Egyptian people in 'Macedonian fashion.' These levies of indigenous Egyptians were crucial in turning back the Seleucid tide at the Battle of Raphia, cementing nationalist pride and threatening the rule of the Ptolemies over their own kingdom.Leather spolas (with leather pteruges) and bronze greaves. Quilted linen armor (no pteruges) and no greaves. Hacker Armament: Long Macedonian pike, the 'sarissa'.

Hafer Email: (Indiana, United States of America). PTOLEMIES (EGYPTIANS) CIVILIZATION PROFILE Version 0.1Ĭrowd-sourced from the fans and contributors of Wildfire Games:Įdited by Michael D.

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