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Alexander battling Darius at the Battle of Issus, November 5, 333 BC (Naples National Archaeological Museum)

Iberian Gladius hispaniensis and pugio

Macedo-Ptolemaic soldiers of the Ptolemaic kingdom, 100 BC

Ptolemaic Ptolemaic

Seleucid

Macedonian LIGHT CAVALRY, c.325–300 BC THE MACEDONIAN ARMY, c.280 BC Alexander the Great and the Macedonian cavalry crossing river Granicus Artwork by Peter Connolly Macedonian Phalanx vs. Roman Legion Peter Connolly captures the action as the phalanx pins and pushes back the Romans on the level ground. In the foreground, a maniple has exploited a gap in the arrayed pikes of the white shield phalanx.

Elephants were widely used in military actions in India from about the mid 1st millennium BC" Little by little these so-called 'living tanks' ousted chariots from the battlefield as more and more noble warriors switched their preference, and until the 18th century AD elephants played a substantial part in Indian warfare. Their numbers are estimated to be in the hundreds or thousands in the armies of different rulers, who all pinned their hopes of victory on their elephant corps and looked upon them as token of victory. Most ancient authors say nothing about towers on elephants' backs; nor are towers to be found in artworks. The crew usually consisted of 2-4 men, including a driver with an ankusha - a pointed goad supplied with a sharp hook. Bows and arrows were common weapons of the crew; javelins and spears were less frequent. The warrior on the croup was often a standard-bearer. Elephants were sometimes covered with armour, but this was expensive. This plate shows one such elephant. The reconstruction is based on plates discovered in Taxila, which date as far back as the turn of the new era.

Persian Immortals THE IMMORTALS Composite regiments in the Persian army are mentioned by Xenophon in the Cyropedia, comprising two ranks of infantry at the front, two of javelinmen or takabara, two of archers, and then at the back two ranks of 'file--closers', whose arms are not noted. This formation was designed to combine heavy missile power with heavy infantry. It is debatable whether such a formation really existed, although Alexander did attempt to form a composite phalanx of Macedonian and Persian forces towards the end of his campaign. If the composite regiment did exist, the evidence seems to suggest that the ten regiments of the Immortals might have been organized in this way, with some individuals carrying hoplite shields, others carrying the taka and some equipped as archers. These infantrymen, wearing tunics distinguished by purple collars and cuffs and hems decorated with silver braiding, are restored from the Alexander sarcophagus, and are likely to represent several different regiments of the Immortals, separate from the spear--bearers and the yellow and blue regiments distinctly shown in the carvings. All these figures seem to wear the purple tunic distinction and yellow hoods, though the hoods are worn by regiments other than the Immortals. The central figure carrying an axe wears a cloak with leopard-skin trim, and a lining made of the fur of small animals. The infantryman spearing the leopard is equipped as a cuirassed foot--soldier or officer from the front rank of a composite regiment. The archer at the left may also come from a composite regiment, one of several distinguished by scarlet tunics. Scarlet dye was obtained from the kermes oak, a tree especially abundant in ancient Iran.

XANTHIPPOS ADDRESSES THE TROOPS, TUNIS 255 BC

Animal furs were commonly worn by both musicians and standard bearers to indicate their special status.

fixed two broken pictures.

sry about that, I fixed.

some funky stuff... http://youtu.be/zyaHsCBulI0

Roman Republican army around the time of The First Carthaginian war (264 to 241 BC) Roman Hastatus or Priceps (Center), Roman Veles (Right) and Roman Triarius (Left)

Romans Legionaries of the Roman Imperial army were known to have worn natural off-white color tunics.

Yes suebi almost replaced the name German at one point. Also they had cool hair...

Carthaginian citizen conscript

Greek

Lakedaimonian/Spartan. They were the only Greeks to retain long hair.

This is my last bit of evidence of the Germans being Celtic and is written by Cassius Dio in Roman History (c. 220 AD) The Rhine issues from the Celtic Alps, a little outside of Rhaetia, and proceeding westward, bounds Gaul and its inhabitants on the left, and the Germans on the right, and finally empties into the ocean. This river has always down to the present time been considered the boundary, ever since these tribes gained their different names; for very anciently both peoples dwelling on either side of the river were called Celts. http://lexundria.com/dio/0/cy edit: I don't think the game needs changed.

A couple more of Celts during The Carthaginian Wars, 256-146BC

Caesar never actually describes the Germans as Celts but says this... Caesar describes Gauls moving into Germany "now also they continue in the same scarcity, indulgence, hardihood, as the Germans, and use the same food and dress." He then talks of the decline of the Gauls "but their proximity to the Province and knowledge of commodities from countries beyond the sea supplies to the Gauls many things tending to luxury as well as civilization. Accustomed by degrees to be overmatched and worsted in many engagements, they do not even compare themselves to the Germans in prowess." [The Gallic War, book 6, chapters 11-28] And there was formerly a time when the Gauls excelled the Germans in prowess, and waged war on them offensively, and, on account of the great number of their people and the insufficiency of their land, sent colonies over the Rhine. Accordingly, the Volcae Tectosages seized on those parts of Germany which are the most fruitful and lie around the Hercynian forests (which, I perceive, was known by report to Eratosthenes and some other Greeks, and which they call Orcynia) and settled there. Which nation to this time retains its position in those settlements, and has a very high character for justice and military merit: now also they continue in the same scarcity, indulgence, hardihood, as the Germans, and use the same food and dress; but their proximity to the Province and knowledge of commodities from countries beyond the sea supplies to the Gauls many things tending to luxury as well as civilization. Accustomed by degrees to be overmatched and worsted in many engagements, they do not even compare themselves to the Germans in prowess.

Rome 2 looks really good. The way the battles are played out on battlefield is very unrealistic though i.m.o. Also many technical problems. These guys take it further than me though http://pixeledcourier.com/2013/10/21/total-war-fans-lay-siege-to-development-studio/

Thus it was Caesar himself who gave the earliest extant descriptions of Germanic Culture. Tacitus: Germania The name Germany, on the other hand, they say is modern and newly introduced, from the fact that the tribes which first crossed the Rhine and drove out the Gauls, and are now called Tungrians, were then called Germans. Thus what was the name of a tribe, and not of a race, gradually prevailed, till all called themselves by this self-invented name of Germans, which the conquerors had first employed to inspire terror. Some generations earlier, Julius Caesar, on the other hand, does not mention the Tungri, but does say that the Condrusi, the Eburones, the Caeroesi and the Paemani, living in the same approximate area as the later Tungri, were "called by the common name of Germans (Germani)" and had settled in Gaul already before the Cimbric wars (113–101 BC) , having come from Germany east of the Rhine. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231063/Germanic-peoples