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Hi, everyone. We're back with another podcast for Ancient Warfare Magazine.

This time we're discussing issue 5,-6 Hellenistic Elite Units.

With me tonight are Murray-Dom, as always.

Same for Lindsay Powell.

Michael Taylor isn't available tonight, but we got another Michael to replace him.

Michael Park, who wrote an article in the issue. So guys, thank you for

joining me. How about we try and define what an elite unit is? When that sort of thing is

easy to define nowadays, you've got seals and SAS and whatever. And they're all a separate sort of thing that is trained

for what they do but I don't necessarily think that applied two to two and a half thousand years

ago. Interesting that because I think in a previous episode we were talking about I think was it

Persians and the one thing that was very obvious was they really liked the fact that they had all

these different regional

combat styles and they were very happy to incorporate them.

So that suggests they did like all the specialties and the skills.

I don't necessarily think they would, as you do nowadays, you would set aside units and

train them for certain things.

I might as a study of the evidence's not all that fantastic, is it?

But when you read it, it strikes me more that the units that were in constant service.

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