Greeks - RTW guide

Welcome my friend welcome to the country that formed democracy and defied the evil persians. We greeks have a proud history and we have colonies around the world.

However time has changed sence the age of Leonidas and now the Macedonians rules in Greece.

Our soldiers have changed little in weapons and armour we belive that a man figths harder when he cannot run away therfore most of our soldiers are heavly armoured along with the spear and a hoplon shield figths on foot in a noble melee.

Evey man pays for his own equpment and is therfore given diffrent roles.

The poor citizens provide covardly missile fire with javelins and arrows and kills both brave and cowardly men alike. They are fast and mobile but are not protected from arrows or swords.

The middle class and high classes serves as hoplites figthing shoulder to shoulder against all foes.These men form the backbone of the army.

Our advantage in infantry is that we form up into a phalanx that allows 3 men in depth to fight at once. Our spears are long and therfore foes that fights with swords have trouble to kill us in a manly manner. As long as they are only in front of us.

The enemy gets exhausted while we stay fresh because we care about our battleformation with the spear and we make sure that that formation isnt broken so that we have to fight with swords and that isnt our primary weapon!In case the enemy break our formation press halt so that we once again figth with spears but first let our enemy charge against us when they have done that press halt and you will be victorious in a street battle.

however If the enemy attacks from the flanks then the enemy will stab us in the back sence we cannot turn to face them in a field battle and for this reason we have cavalry to guard our flanks and to take out soldiers trying to give us a cowardly death but that is all they are expected to do we also have a rear guard of hoplites so that we can hammer and anvil the enemy cavalry if it chooses to attack our rear.

Many enemies will be temted to do this in order to gain superiority in mobility that cavalry brings to the battlefield only to find our cavalry virtually impossible to catch!

However many consider us weak because we do not have heavy cavalry but we are more mobile than other factions and our cavalry can choose when to figth our opponent this along with a rear guard will indeed be formidable.

But the world have moved on and many of our enemies have much better cavalry than we do therfore your cavalry must cooperate with the rest of the army not fight on its own.

When it comes to trade we trade with the entire world and we have a large sea trade protected by a strong navy that also can be used to blockade are enemys sea trade thus reducing the number of soldiers that they can field.

This is the key to victory now prove that you have Achillies blood forward to glory!