Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

[Aryaman2]

How do you carry for hundreds of miles a siege train similar to those shown on Assyrian reliefs without logistics?
Before you think about the siege train you think about the food for the animals pulling the train and the men operating it. And so on..
The argument about the Persians having poor logistics doesn't hold much water IMHO...
And that makes the argument about the "puny" Persian army facing Alexander sort of leaky too..

In ancient times armies didn´t carry large siege trains, they built siege machines on the spot, so your argument about the Persians having great logistics because they had to carry them for hundreds of miles doesn´t hold much water IMHO...