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- Carthagenian Infantry III-IB.C.
- Scale 1/35 8010. This box contains an unassembled plastic model kit. Paint needed to finish model as shown are not included. Instruction sheet with drawings included. The infantry consisted of Libyan-Phoenicians, people, moulded as a result of Libyan land colonization by Phoenicians, was the basis of Carthaginian army. Libyan-Phoenician infantry was armed after the Hellenistic pattern. The heavy infantry wore muscular cuirasses, chain armors, helmets of Greek Hellenistic type, often with a crest without horsehair, & Greek round shields. Spears & swords were the armament of the heavy infantry. Warriors of the light infantry wore ordinary togas without belts, oval Roman shields & were armed with javelins & swords. On Crete Island the Carthage army recruited qualified slingers defeating the enemy at the distance of 120-160 steps..