There's an elite infantry unit used by Pyrrhus that has me curious: the Chaeonian Guard.
Chaon was the province in the north west of Epeiros so I suppose they were recruited from here. They're mentioned as an elite.
In Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus" in the battle at Sparta, they're described as the "Chaonon logados," the picked men of the Chaonians. They were mobile enough to be used by Ptolemaios in an attempt to get around the edge of the trench outside the city, along with 2000 Gauls, but they were also heavy enough to participate in a pretty ferocious fight with Akrotatos' 300, which they eventually lost.
So: what are they? Phalangites, according to some, or Spearmen according to others.
I was wondering if they might be an Epirote verion of the famous Hypaspists - Alex.the G.'s all-round fix-it unit?
If so, would the HaT Hypaspist set work for this Pyrrhic unit?
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