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Old 05-03-2008, 08:47 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Phalanxes were a formation rather than the name given to individual soldiers. You wouldn't call a cavalry unit a "wedge", would you? A better name for it would be "hoplite".

Actually, that gives me an idea...
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