steve_pickstock wrote:I'm not sure of purple for a unit colour. It was an incredibly expensive colour to produce. Leaders only would be my suggestion, with the companions wearing something else..
Thanks, Steve. As you know, for Ancients, there are only the merest wisps of information about clothing colours. We don't even know the colour of Imperial Roman legionaries' tunics. I'm basing this decision on possibilities but there isn't much else to go on.
I take your point about purple but Alex. the G. evidently distributed piles of purple cloth to his elite units after Perseopolis fell & the Companions, at least, then wore purple cloaks.
Pyrrhus consciously sought to emulate his esteemed uncle on many occasions, so why not here?
His Agema (bodyguard cavalry unit) were something special & the Hellenistic Greeks given to spectacle in general. So either spending a small fortune or capturing stores from the Carthaginians: purple cloaks* it will be.
donald
.*BTW indigo was sometimes used to make a counterfeit Tyrian purple. It was more blue-ish than red-ish like true purple. I'm using Vallejo's Oxford Blue which makes the possibility of "fake" Tyrian Purple possible.