User blog comment:Urbancommando77/Gilgamesh vs Alexander the Great/@comment-2006360-20111107121025

I believe Gilgamesh would wear a leather chestplate and kilt. Not very effective against Alexander's weapons though. But Gilgamesh is pretty much a Sumerian Celt; he wants to dodge Alexander's blows while having brute strength as well.

By the way, the only recorded mention of Alexander's soldiers using the Gastraphetes was at the Siege of Tyre, when he issued the new weapon to a select few archers, who would use them against the Tyrians on the castle walls. Most of Alexander's soldiers used bows, javelins, or slings as missile weapons instead. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the way Alexander's warriors were arranged, and I use his strategies all the time on Rome: Total War.