15mm Parthians

Packed of 8 foot/4 cavalry unless otherwise stated

Distracted by an attack on Syria from Ptolemaic Egypt in 247BC, the Seleucid Empire was unable to respond to an invasion of Parthian nomads on their Northern Frontier. The Parthians over-ran the provinces of Hyrcania and Parthia and managed to withstand later attempts to eject them. In 141BC the Parthians invaded the crumbling empire of Seucia and in time arrived on the Eiphrates to confront the rising power of Rome. During the sporadic wars that followed, the Parthians inflicted on Rome one of the most crushing defeats of her history. At Carrhae in 53BC they destroyed the army of Crassus the Triumvir, some 40,000 men strong. The Parthian Empire endured for over 400 years and having fought many external foes, finally fell to an internal revolt by the Sassanian Persians. Throughout their history, the Parthians remained basically a cavalry army, their main strengths lying in their mounted archers and armoured cataphracts.
15mm Ancients, Parthians

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