11-01-2015, 03:46 PM
It all has to do with what you are meaning with the terms 'hoplite' and 'phalangite'. If you mean what most gamers mean, that is the Greek hoplite as armed in the 5th century BC and the Greek sarissa bearing phalangite as used by Alexander or Pyrrhus, then no, the Romans did not arm themselves in this fashion, apart from some more or less uncertain exceptions. However, both these terms in the sources only mean infantryman of the line, so the Roman legionnaires are also called hoplites and yes, we can also have phalangarii etc.
