This is the army of Antiochus the Great, whose career we know mostly from accounts of his defeats at Raphia and Magnesia. However, between the two defeats, he conducted a campaign against the Parthians which was successful enough to earn him that “Great” tag, and inspired him to up-armour his heavy cavalry to cataphract standards (the Companions being left slightly lighter than this). These proved quite capable of riding a Roman legion down in at Magnesia.

List primarily based on Bar-Kochva’s “The Seleucid Army”

Era: Age of Empires		Antiochid Seleucid	CR: H: 4 L: 3			BP: 2	Init: 4
Core
Number	Type	Description	Key	FV	PROT	Weapon	Cost
2	PH	Pezetairoi	Key	7[0]0	1	Pikes	10
1	PH	Argyraspids	Key	8[0]0	1	Pikes	12
2	LI	Peltasts		4[1]2	1	Javelins	7
3	SI			2[1]1	2	Bows	2
1	EL		Key	5[3]2	1	Various	12
Bonus:
3	HC	Xystophoroi*	Key	4[0]0	1	Xyston	10
1	HC	Companions*	Key	5[1]1	1	Xyston	11
1	PH	Argyraspids	Key	8[0]0	1	Pikes	12
3	PH	Pezetairoi	Key	7[0]0	1	Pikes	10
2	WB	Galatians **	Key	5[1]3	1	Various	8
2	HC	Galatians** ***	Key	4[0]0	1	Various	10
2	LI	Peltasts		4[1]2	1	Javelins	7
2	SI			2[1]1	2	Bows	2
3	FT	Asiatics/Arabs**	Key	4[1]1	1	Various/Bows	6
1	LC			2[0]0	1	Javelins	7
2	LC	Dahae		1[0]0	1	Bows	6
1	EL		Key	5[3]2	1	Various	12
1	Scythed Chariot	Scythed Chariot		5[1]0	1	Sharp Blades	6
1	CAM		Key	3[0]0	1	Various	7

Terrain:

Core: 1GR

Bonus: (Max: 3 ) 2GR; 2SH; 1RG

Notes:

Core: 95 Bonus: 199

In later period armies, Xystophoroi are CAT 6(2)0 PROT +3 lance @ 15 points, and Companions are HC 5(1)0, PROT +2 Lance @ 12 points.

WB are BP 4 , move 6 inches

The total number of HC / CAT units may not exceed the total number of PH, FT and WB units in the army.

**Asiatics/Arabs and Galatians cannot be used in the same army.

**The number of Galatian cavary units may not exceed either the number of Galatian warbands or the number of Xystophoroi units.

Ordo Link: Antiochid/Late Selucid

Last Edited: 28 November 2006

List Author: Mithradates