03-12-2014, 02:40 PM
I agree that the basic tactics and formations did not change much right from the time of the Greek Hoplites to the 6th Century AD. Basically you had the infantry forming up the centre of the army and the cavalry divided either side of the infantry. The change came during the 6th Century when infantry were relegated to forming behind the cavalry in most cases, or behind archers.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar