DBA Army Sets

Renowned and feared as the finest fighting men in the Greek world, the Spartan citizens were trained as soldiers from early childhood. The Spartans dominated land warfare in Greece, and their mere presence on the battlefield was often enough to demoralise

Athens at one time headed one of the largest and most powerful leagues in the Greek world, an empire in all but name. Ten elected generals, the strategoi, headed her army. Athenian armies were often composed largely of mercenaries, citizen-soldiers formin

Thebes dominated her neighbours and headed the 'Boiotian League', a league of cities in the surrounding area. The Sacred Band, a 300 strong elite corps of hoplites, formed the corps of their army. Theban cavalry was considered some of the best in Greece,

Thessaly was famous in the Greek world for her excellent cavalry. The Thessalian plains were less urbanised than most other Greek states, and nobles, under an elected ruler, the Tagos, headed her society. Thessaly dominated the surrounding hill peoples, a

Aitolians were known as being more warlike than Greeks in general. Unlike most Greek armies Aitolian armies contained a high proportion of light infantry fighting with javelins, making them very effective in hilly or broken country. The country was poor a

Most often ruled by rival kings, the Thracian tribes occupied lands stretching from the shores of the Aegean to the banks of the Danube and beyond. Thracian armies were mainly made up of large numbers of loose fighting tribal infatry, many armed with the

This represents the army of Philip II (355BC-336BC), Alexander the Great (336BC-329BC) and the regent Antipater (334BC-320BC). The bulk of the infantry was formed into the phalanx, armed with the deadly sarissa, which was used to pin the enemy to the fron

Persian noble Ariarathes took control of Kappadokia after the fall of the Achaemenids, however, he was later defeated and killed by Perdikkas in 322BC. His son regained the kingdom in 300BC until, under a later successor, it became a Roman Province in 17A

The Phokian army became a powerful force in Greece during the Sacred War of the 350s. They were able to hire large quantities of mercenaries paid for by the plundered sacred treasures of Apollos sanctuary at Delphi. Famously the army, under Onomarchos,

The later Persian armies had shifted away for the traditional sparabara infantry in favour of mercenary hoplites or similarly re-armed Guard units until its final defeat under Darius III by Alexander the Great. The numerous cavalry were the mainstay of ar