Sacred Band Infantry

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The Sacred Band was a group of soldiers that were dedicated to Baal, the great father God of the Phoenician/Canaanite pantheon. They were all members of the nobility, and were called upon to fight their country’s wars as an elite unit that formed the right wing of a phalanx. They were all slaughtered in Sicily by the armies of Syracuse in the 5th century BC, but many records speak of an elite unit that fought on the right wing of the phalanx long after their demise.

Trained from a young age to be tough phalanx spearmen, these men were from wealthy Carthaginian families, and as such had extremely good equipment. They were trained from birth to be great warriors and they were able to afford high quality armor and weapons. They fought as a traditional Phalanx organized in the Spartan style.

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