Before a battle the sarissa were carried in two pieces and then slid together when they were being used.

The Battle of Raphia between the Seleucids and Ptolemy IV may represent the pinnacle of sarissa tactics, when only an elephant charge seemed able to disrupt the opposing phalanx.

Recent reconstructions of the sarissa and phalangite shield showed that the shoulder strap supporting the shield effectively helps to transfer some of the weight of the sarissa from the left arm to the shoulders, when the sarissa is held horizontally in its fighting position.

A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect.

Although very long spears had been used since the dawn of organized warfare ( notably illustrated in art showing Sumerian and Minoan warriors and hunters ), the earliest recorded use of a pike-like weapon in the tactical method described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries in many countries.

By doing this, the chariots would be trapped by the bodies of soldiers it killed, and the long Greek sarissa.

The sarissa was gradually replaced by variations of the gladius as the weapon of choice.

The sarissa was the pike used by the Ancient Macedonian army.

) The great length of the pike was balanced by a counterweight at the rear end, which also functions as a butt-spike, allowing the sarissa to be planted into the ground.

However, the introduction of the sarissa pike, heavier armour and a smaller shield seem to have been innovations devised by Philip himself.

This probably meant that, as both hands were needed to hold the sarissa, the shield was worn suspended by a shoulder strap and steadied by the left forearm passing through the armband.

The sarissa was over 6 m ( 18 ft ) in length, with a counterweight and spiked end at the rear called a sauroter ; it seems to have had an iron sleeve in the middle which may mean that it was in two pieces for the march with the sleeve joining the two sections before use.

The length of the sarissa, while making them an terrifying enemy to oppose, severely limited their maneuverability, and if they were taken in flank or rear they had little chance of responding.

Considering that they carry the sarissa, the sarissophoroi had a very powerful charge, devastating to an enemy formation's flanks and rear.

The Macedonian phalanx was not very different from the Hoplite phalanx of other Greeks states, save it was better trained, armed with the sarissa enabling it to outreach its competitors and stave off enemy cavalry, and wore far lighter armor enabling longer endurance and long fast forced marches, including the ability to sprint to close and overwhelm opposing positions and archers.

His most important innovation was doubtless the introduction of the phalanx infantry corps, armed with the famous sarissa, an exceedingly long spear, at the time the most important army corps in Macedonia.

Although they are best known for the achievements of Alexander the Great, his father Philip II of Macedon created and designed the fighting force Alexander used in his conquests. Before this time and for centuries their military prowess was nowhere near that the sarissa phalanx offered.

Philip provided his Macedonian soldiers in the phalanx with sarissa, a spear which was 4 – 6 meters in length.

During his later campaigning, Alexander gradually reduced the importance of the phalanx and the sarissa, as he modified his combined use of arms to incorporate ' Asian ' weapons and troops, not specifically trained in Hellenistic battle tactics.

While the Spartan phalanx used a shorter more versatile spear, the Macedonian phalanx that Alexander commanded used a " sarissa " which was a much longer and heavier spear which required the use of two hands.

A drawing of a Macedonian phalanx ( the shields are smaller and lighter than with a traditional hoplite phalanx, the sarissa is twice as long as the traditional spears and fully enclosed helmets weren't as widespread as the drawing suggests, though they did protect more than open face helmets.

The Successor Kingdoms of Macedon's empire tried expanding upon the design, creating pikes as long as, but all of these ideas were eventually abandoned in favor of the battle-tried Philipine-Alexandrian sarissa.

The ' phalangites ' were armed with much longer spears ( the sarissa ; see below ), and less heavily armoured.

Since the sarissa was wielded two-handed, phalangites carried much smaller shields that were strapped to their arms.

It would also be very hard to remove a sarissa from anything it stuck in ( the earth, shields, and soldiers of the opposition ) if it were thrust downwards, due to its length.

Phalangites were nearly impregnable from the front because of the massive length of their spears, but they were tactically cumbersome and were vulnerable from the sides because a phalangite could not turn quickly with the giant sarissa.

In terms of weaponry, they were probably equipped in the style of a traditional Greek hoplite with a thrusting spear or doru ( shorter and less unwieldy than the sarissa ) and a large round shield ( hoplon ).

Offensive weapons were a pike ( sarissa ), and a short sword ( machaira ).

They were armed with the sarissa, a long spear with a shaft made from flexible cornel wood, which had a much longer reach than the traditional hoplite spear.

They were chosen Foot Companions, equipped with sarissa ( 21 feet long pike ), argive shield, and short sword.

It should be stressed that the archaeological discoveries show that the phalangites also used the two-edged sword ( xiphos ) as well as the traditional Greek hoplite spear ( doru / δόρυ ), which was much shorter than the sarissa.

Each phalangite carried as his primary weapon a sarissa, a double-pointed pike over 6 m ( 18 ft ) in length.

In essence, the range of their counter-weighted sarissa, allowed them superior mobility as well as superior defense and attack abilities despite the encumbrance disadvantages of the longer weapon once trained up to handling it in formation.

The sarissa or sarisa () was a 4 to 7 meter ( 13 – 21 feet ) long spear used in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic warfare.

The sarissa, made of tough and resilient cornel wood, was very heavy for a spear, weighing approximately for a sarissa and approximately for an sarissa.

However, outside the tight formation of the Phalanx the sarissa was useless as a weapon and a hindrance on the march.

The invention of the sarissa is credited to Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.

The sarissa, however, remained the backbone for every subsequent Hellenistic, and especially Diadochi army.

Only Pyrrhus of Epirus was able to maintain a high standard of tactical handling with armies based around the sarissa, but with the dawn of the manipular system, even he struggled for his victories.

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