The Hoplite Greeks are tremendous fun to play, and very colorful.

These figures are almost all Xyston figs.  A lot of them have Little Big Man transfers.  Those are quite fussy, but in terms of the quality of the result when you get the hang of them, they are the best thing out there.  As you will see.

Some few of the Greek city-states used uniform shield patterns to signify themselves.  Most of them, however, treated the shield face as a personal expression, and all sorts of designs were used.  This means that hoplites of one city-state can be used for another, by and large.  (Some exceptions noted below).  Same goes for most of their other troops as well.

So if you build up a good force of hoplites, you can use them for a bunch of different armies in Triumph, including:

• Later Hoplite Athens

• Later Hoplite Theban/Boiotian (maybe, see below)

• Later Hoplite Thessalian

• Later Hoplite Aitolian or Akarnanian

• Later Hoplite Italiot, Siciliot, or Tarentine

• Later Hoplite Minor Powers (i.e., everyone else)

• Sacred War Phokian

You cannot use them for Spartans -- they used the Lambda symbol a lot (possibly mixed in with other symbols) from the Peloponnesian War (430s BC) period onwards.

Similarly, Thebans seem to have adopted the club of Hercules as their emblem on their shields from the late 5th century onwards.

In the same way, Hoplites fighting as mercenaries in other armies would look exactly the same as these guys -- so they would form a component up to four stands in:

• Early Macedonian

• Alexander Macedonian

• Later Achaemenid Persian

And some other army lists as well.