What Does a Phalanx Look Like?
2. Phalanx Army Unit Choices 2.1 Primary Characters 2.2 Secondary Characters 2.3 Eternal Guard Phalanx Options 2.4 Primary Support Units 2.5 Secondary Support Units 3. Phalanx Tactics 3.1 Choosing the Battlefield 3.2 Deployment 3.3 Movement 3.4 Character Positioning 3.5 Catching the Enemy 3.6 Destroying the Enemy 3.7 Magic Defense 3.8 Points Denial 4. Using a Phalanx Within Standard Wood Elves Armies 5. The Historical Basis for the Eternal Guard Phalanx 1. What Does a Phalanx look like? The Phalanx is a Greek invention; a tightly packed regiment of spearmen that form an immovable shield wall that fight battles of attrition; the Phalanx uses weight of numbers, multiple ranks of spear attacks and heavy armor to overpower the enemy. Hoplite spearmen would carry a long spear and a broad shield that would form a dense wall of shields and deadly spear tips and charge into frontal combats with their enemy. The Hoplites would commonly be clad in thick bronze armor, but militia Hoplites might f
