Ancient Greek Hoplite Army - Showcase

Hoplites were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Hoplite soldiers utilised the phalanx formation to be effective in war with fewer soldiers. The formation discouraged the soldiers from acting alone, for this would compromise the formation and minimize its strengths. The hoplites were primarily represented by free citizens, farmers and artisans who were able to afford a linen armour or a bronze armour suit and weapons. Most hoplites were not professional soldiers and often lacked sufficient military training. Some states maintained a small elite professional unit, known as the epilektoi ‘chosen’ since they were picked from the regular citizen infantry. These existed at times in Athens, Sparta, Argos, Thebes, and Syracuse, among others. Hoplite soldiers made up the bulk of ancient Greek armies.
In the 8th or 7th century BC, Greek armies adopted the phalanx formation. The formation proved successful in defeating the Persians when employed by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC during the First Greco-Persian War. The Persian archers and light troops who fought in the Battle of Marathon failed because their bows were too weak for their arrows to penetrate the wall of Greek shields that comprised the phalanx formation. The phalanx was also employed by the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC and at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC during the Second Greco-Persian War.
The word hoplite derives from hoplon, which is the hoplite's shield. In the modern Hellenic Army, the word hoplite is used to refer to an infantryman.
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What a great looking army! Thanks for sharing friend!

[@rangerminiaturesandgaming3647]

With skirmish games being all the rage today it is nice to see a proper sized army . Great outcome for a first army.

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Wonderful

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A great looking collection. Thanks for showing it off. 👍

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Warm greetings from a hut in the snow-covered forests! You have wonderful miniatures and excellent work! Thank you so much for the inspiration given by this demonstration!

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Love these review ! You have build a such outstanding greek army . A real pleasure watch this video !

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This is a superb army, it’s huge! This must have taken moths to put together. You deserve so many more subscribers, absolutely brilliant 👍

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They’re amazing! Lovely work! Keep the vids coming! 👍

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They are great. Real nice work.

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Very impressive army, congratulations !!!!

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Always night to watch a showcase and even better when it's from "way back"! Great video!

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[@ducomaritiem7160]

Nice man! I just finished my greek army, mainly from Victrix and Warlords. I used the same Little Big Men decals as you did. My game is Saga.

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Hi Duco, thanks very much for your comment. The Victoria figures look very nice. These are mainly metal, I think from Wargames Foundry, but had them so long, my memory is a bit hazey

[@philRminiatures]

Your army is superb, wonderful painting and basing...and most beautiful shields!!

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Thank you very much Phil, this is the army that got me interested in Historical Wargaming all those years ago. Thank you for commenting and have a great weekend 👍

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Such a stunning army

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What a beautiful army 😃

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[@greatsouthernancientminiat8812]

awesome army. I really like the idea of different coloured belts and straps for the hoplites. Those foundry guys look nice but quite expensive right ?

[@wargamesgeek1334]

Thank you very much. The Foundry figures are a little on the more expensive side, there are some nicely detailed plastic figures that I would probably use if I were to do another army

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@@wargamesgeek1334 Yeah I've got plenty of the Victrix, Warlord Games and Wargames Factory plastic Greeks. Might grab a few Foundry as " character figures"

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Beautiful work! The army is looking awesome!

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Nice troops my friend happy weekend. For sparta!

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That is amazing buddy!!! I don’t even wanna know how many hours you got in a the bench painting all those figures.. but really great work!!! I love how you can tell a story!! Thanks for sharing and have an awesome weekend!!!✌️

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Thank you very much, I think a few months went in to these! Great comments that’s really kind of you. Have a great weekend too.

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Fantastic army looking really amazing 😁👍

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Nice looking army 😊

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Stupidly loud music to start! Why??? But otherwise a good video. Figures decently painted

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That is a lot of naked dudes - awesome.

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[@Castillo525]

What base sizes did you use for the infantry?

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Those are 20mm bases 👍

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Jesus that's a big painted army

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It took a while to paint, that’s for sure 👍👍👍

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@@wargamesgeek1334 I'm working really hard to paint two 15mm armies. An ancientr Aztec army for DBMM and a WWII Blue Division/German army for BKIV.

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@@borjagarciaadalid6687 I just can’t paint anything smaller than 28mm anymore. My eyes really struggle with smaller scales. I think age is catching me up, I’ll be painting 1/1 scale soon 🤦😂

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Need Shade on your figs!!

[@wargamesgeek1334]

They’ve been shaded with Quickshade strong tone. Probably doesn’t come out too well on video!

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Great look into a hobby and history I don’t know a lot about. A very impressive project 👍👌

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