User blog comment:Tesla Man/Losers Bracket: Battle 3/@comment-2006360-20111112183555

By the way, Alexander's infantry didn't use xystons. They used sarissae, which are 24-foot-long pikes. The cavalry used xystons. Also, most of the Persian scythed chariots were taken down by skirmishers with javelins, who then captured the chariots as well.

And "hoplon"? That's not a unit name. A hoplon is the shield used by hoplites, while Alexander's foot soldiers were called phalangites, because they fought in a phalanx. They used the sarissa. Hoplites were only used as reserves in Alexander's army.