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Now, today's question is from Jan Willem, who's asked a question before.

Dear Murray, I have a question on the scythed chariots at Galgamelar, the Battle of Galgamela in 331 BC between

Alexander the Great and Darius, the third of Persia. I developed and played a war game scenario on it,

and these things have become a true enigma. The problem is the number of chariots, the frontage they

could cover in relation to the

phalanx, and how agile the phalanx would need to be in order to let them through harmlessly.

The letting them through aspect of the story is where I get stuck. As I read the story of the battle,

the Persians used some 200-sized chariots. They charged, the phalanx opened up, they passed,

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