Antigonid Macedonian army

The Antigonid Macedonian army was the army of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia while it was ruled by the Antigonid dynasty, from 294 to 288 BC and again from 276 to 168 BC. It was one of the principal Hellenistic fighting forces until the Romans defeated it at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, with a brief resurgence in 150 to 148 BC during the revolt of Andriscus. It began as a handful of mercenaries under Antigonus Gonatas in the 270s BC and grew into the dominant force in Hellenistic Greece, campaigning against Epirus, the Aetolian League, Sparta, Athens, Rhodes, Pergamon and the Thracian and Celtic tribes of the north. Like the army of Philip II and Alexander the Great before it, it was built around the Macedonian phalanx of men with small shields and long sarissa pikes, supported by elite peltasts, cavalry and allied and mercenary infantry.