Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers.

And again, I'm alone. It's Murray's Ancient Warfare Answers.

And we have a question from Rish Boylew.

And I'll get to that in a minute.

You, of course, can ask a question, email, message. You can join us on Patreon. There's three different levels of joining us on Patreon. You can get a copy of the magazine and electronic copy of the magazine, or you can just throw us a dollar and be a friend. Now, the question we have is from Rich, and he says, we have a relatively good picture of what the Roman legionary

weapons and material manufacturing process looked like at least for some time periods.

Do we have any similar information for the Philippian-Alexandrian Macedonian army?

That's a lot of 16 foot long cirriss's spear shafts and spear points to manufacture.

And I'm curious what we know about it.

Also, what was that logistical development and innovation of Phillips or did it predate him?

Did I even say that?

Also, was that logistical development and innovation of Phillips?

Or did it predate them?

Yes, I've said that correctly.

Now, so two questions.

First one is, are the reforms to the Macedonian army Phillips or do they predate Philip?

My thinking is that they're Phillips.

We get told that by Diodorus.

We get told that by Plutarch.

And we get told that he, when he surprisingly comes to the Macedonian throne in 359,

yes, 359 BC, He's the third brother.

So he's already had his Alexander the second and Perticus, the third, predate him.

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