03-26-2006, 01:34 PM
Quote:The pikemen were typical hellenistic -sarissa small shield. but converted infantry possibly carried thyreos, heavy javelines and might even wear chainmail (Thorakitae).
Something like this (Dutch site, so mainly Dutch texts, but the picture is there) ? It's the Greek infantryman around 200BC from the book Rome and Greece at War from Connolly.
a.k.a. Daan Vanhamme