What are Oscan Hoplites?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:55 pm
Simple question what are Oscan Hoplites?
And what FoG army(s) would they be in?
And what FoG army(s) would they be in?
Those are the Italian tribes based around Campania that adopted Greek equipment as a process of mixture with the Greek colonist in Southern Italy. If you are looking for miniatures, you have some excellent ones in Xyston's 15mm. Basically what made them distinct was the use of leathers (traditional in Italian warfare), the use of the round Greek shiled, aspis, and some mixture of Italian and Greek helmets and body protections.
They can be in the Siracusans, Romans, Carthaginians, Pyhrrus and in some of the Lost Scrolls lists, I guess, but I do not know for them.