Historicon 2005

Alexander & The Successors

Yes, time to hack and slash your neighbor for the keys to the empire. Lots of big rugby scrums, er, push of pike battles in this one. What I've done is limit the period from the time of Alexander's invasion of Asia to ROUGHLY 275-270 B.C. That results in a more limited selection of armies since by excluding the Successor kingdoms, I've eliminated all their eastern Mediterranean enemies like the Pontics, Bythnians, etc. Furthermore, I did not always include every enemy of the Successors, mainly Pyrrus'. Why? Because some of the armies are really to "punic" or "hoplite" and those are two themes already covered. Which is why you don't see Syracusan or Late Hoplite; the only way either is competitive is if you use Germans, Spanish, etc and that certainly is NOT historical in this period. Again, the army lists are tentative since things can change over time.

DBM ARMIES

Book 1

43) Skythian, et al: No Hu

48) Illyrian: nothing before 335 BC

49) Thracian

56) Kyrenian Greek: Nothing after 323 BC

62) Lykian: no chariots or Greek allies

63) Paionian

Book 2

2) Mountain Indian

3) Classical Indian: pre-Maurya period only

7) L Achaemenid

12) Alexandrian Macedonian

14) Ariarathid Kappodokian: nothing after Ariathes II

15) Alexandrian Imperial

16) Asiatic Early Successor

17) Lysimachid

18) Macedonian Early Successor

19) Seleucid: nothing after 281 BC

20) Ptolemaic: nothing after 295 BC

27) Nabataean Arab

30) Galatian: nothing after 274 BC

31) Hellenistic Greek: nothing after 271 BC

WARRIOR ARMIES

Classical Warrior