Sassanian Army

[Roxofarnes]

Europa Barbarorum does make some ... remarkable claims. I remember skimming their forum and seeing a few posts asking about the mysterious Celtic sources they quoted in a lot of the quotes which pop up while a screen is loading. After hemming and hawing for several months, explaining that they came from a forum member who had access to translations of unpublished manuscripts, they admitted that they had been fooled and that the quotes would be removed in the next version!

I guess you could take any questions to their forums. There was a thread here some time ago about their mail-barded Spanish cavalry, who seem to come from an Angus McBride illustration.

I don't know much about the Sassanids, but it does occur to me that "peasant miliia" describes Greek or Republican Roman hoplites pretty well! I doubt that most Sassanid infantry were as good as those troops, but effective ancient soldiers weren't always professional.

The fact is that there were indeed some remarks of chained cavalry which obviously can not be treated with any credibility however literature of these days did follow topoi created by previous authors. Still I believe initially these were based on facts