Street fighting hoplites

[lupus]

Gee, "Felix", are you making a house in Abganistan??? :lol:

Just kidding... Nice data.

[Jona Lendering]

If I may say so, that was a case of building a wall in a much damper climate than Iraq (I think that is where Cunaxa was actually fought?). I do not have personal experience with mud brick, but have seen the process as carried out in Egypt, also New Mexico and California; all of which more closely resemble the climate of Iraq.

Good point; I'll have to reconsider a thing or two!

[hoplite14gr]

Even today street fighting is considered a brutal bussiness and avoided if possible. Up to Xenophon's times even elite troops caught in streetfighting had the tables turned on them (i.e. Thebans in Platea).
I think if the Persian C-C thought he was not fully prepared for this he would avoid that type of action.
Also the fortified camp might weight in his desicion.
Kind regards