#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

4088.149 - 4110.976 Gregory Aldrete

It's his father who reformed the Macedonian army, who came up with that system of equipping them with the sarissa, this extra long spear that made them really effective, created the mixed army. One of the keys to Alexander's success in a tactical sense is that his army was composed of different elements, heavy cavalry, light cavalry, heavy infantry, light infantry, missile troops.