I'm somewhat confused….stavros wrote:Any man that can walk over 30km a day with armour, shielding and weaponry is a man that is well trained, very disciplined, determined and very strong. These men were not average.
Which is it lad? Not sure that I'd like to walk the difference in a day (26km or 16.25 miles).stavros wrote: ATG's men would march 30 to 35 miles every day, loaded with weapons, shields and armour. These were not ordinary men.
They were ordinary men. They were, in fact, conscripts – nothing more, nothing less. That they were well drilled is not in question. But conscripted levies they remain. And, by the time of Alexander's death, there precious few more to be had. Macedonia was a well juiced lemon.
Only the ignorant would fail to recall the world's first great empire. One which lasted some two centuries. One which – unlike the Macedonian Empire that, riddled by internal power struggles due to the death of its myopic conqueror king, fell apart – grew with successive Achaemenid kings.stavros wrote:the Greeks crushed the Persians, nobody remembers second best??
Perhaps I could suggest Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia? In case you can't remember "second best".