Medieval and Ancient War Unit Types

Hello

Somewhere I have all 4 DBM* army lists books. Each book cover between 100-200 armies (and each army has a lot of different unit types and versions of unit types). DBM cover the time period 5000 BC to around 1550 (start of the gun powder period).
I don’t know if DBM still is for sales, but it is a very good resource).
(DBR** has 2 army books (as I know of) and cover the period from around 1600-1820).

* DBM is rules for miniature epic ancient to medieval battles. The rules are generic.
** DBR is the same rules but for renascence and Napoleon battle.
DBA is a smaller brother to DBM.
HOTT is DBA but for fantasy.

// Johan

From the top of my head:

Infantry:

Saxon Housecarls
Persian Immortals
English Men-at-arms
Swiss Pikemen
German Landsknechts
Libyan Spearmen
Iberian Infantry

Ranged:

Balearic Slingers
Cretan Archers
Greek Peltast
Roman Velites (Auxilia for later Roman armies)

Cavalry:

Chariots
Cataphracts
Byzantine Cataphracts (partially armed with lances and partially with composite bows)
Arab Camelriders
Numidian Cavalry
Celtic/Iberian Lancers
Gothic Heavy Cavalry
Hun Cavalry

I'd really concentrate on a particular era and geographical region. The fighters of past (and the present, for that matter), are suited to their times, and their equipment and tactics are whatever was needed against their rather small local selection of foes. Even modern militaries, though all designed to fight using modern technology, don't buy or develop units to counter non-existant threats.

The US is an exception to this, of course, since the modern US Navy faces no comperable opposition, nor does the US Air Force, for that matter. But you get the idea. Anyway, even modern forces have trouble integrating, and to combine the units you've listed would make no practical sense, since each infantry type was trained to fight using certain tactics and versus specific enemy compositions. This, I think, would make your units feel like nothing more than collections of statistics, rather than distinct historical formations. I'd limit the scope, a bit.