11-18-2007, 01:16 AM
They can be seen in this thread posted by Laran:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... c&start=40
There is also a reconstruction of that but I couldn't find it quickly. Other evidences are not available but Herodotus mentions an elite unit, the direct body guards of the king carrying their spears with the tip pointed to the ground. The soldiers there must be this unit. It seems that only they carried this kind of spears and they way they carried it, seems to have been a prestige symbol, something typical for Iranics.
My Immortals is meant to represent this elite unit which seems to have been the Pomegranate-bearers.
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... c&start=40
There is also a reconstruction of that but I couldn't find it quickly. Other evidences are not available but Herodotus mentions an elite unit, the direct body guards of the king carrying their spears with the tip pointed to the ground. The soldiers there must be this unit. It seems that only they carried this kind of spears and they way they carried it, seems to have been a prestige symbol, something typical for Iranics.
My Immortals is meant to represent this elite unit which seems to have been the Pomegranate-bearers.
Bahram Ardavan-Dorood
