Hoplite Artwork

[hoplite14gr]

Theban "Sacred Band" is the most famous but,
Argos, Arkadians, Phokians and Thessakians had "Sacred bands" and the Eleans had "logadae".
These units were distiguished more from their shield device rather than armor.
No matter how hard pressed the finances would be the city state would do its damnest to equip these troopers in the best popssible way so the would be better armored than other hoplites.

I do understand the different objective of depicting a "game unit" somewhat uniformly but there could be rich hoplites with better outfits than the "elite" unit.

Kind regards