​Battlefield Role: Spear Infantry Militia
Weapons: A long spear and a hoplon shield.
Outfit: A linen tunic, a leather skirt, a cape and a brooch displaying their City-State's coat of arms. All in their own City-State's colours.
Skill level: They undergo through a basic military training paid by their cities' war chambers, but they are yet far from actual soldiers.
Affiliation: The League of the Athenian City-States
Strengths: Last defensive measure, called upon to protect their cities when under siege. They are better trained than most militias.
Weaknesses: All in all, they are still just a bunch of armed civilians. They have neither the physical nor the mental preparation to withstand prolonged fights against professional soldiers.
Amazon Hoplite Militia
As empowered citizens who openly take part on their democratic municipal senate through their own direct votes, the citizens of the Athenian League's autonomous City-States have both the right and the duty to bear arms and defend their homes.
It isn't a compulsory military service per say, but to earn their citizenship itself, every Athenian amazon must undergo a basic training in the local barracks for at least 1 year during their youth in order to properly learn how to fight. At the end of this military drill, they may opt to either become reservists and get back to their ordinary civilian lives, or to continue in the army at their City-States' Military Academies, where they shall train harder to become actual professional soldiers.
Many of them desire to remain in the standing military because of the nice pay rates and high social status of soldiering life. Often the sheer number of wannabe soldiers actually surpass the available demand for new soldiers in the regiments, which enables the officers to choose the best available candidates as their new recruits. A process incredibly smoother than other regions' compulsory draft in times of war.
Therefore, the entire region benefits from highly talented standing armies, while the civilians who live within their major cities can fight relatively well, should they ever need to take up arms. Of course, these militia forces won't be called upon unless their very home city is threatened and surrounded, because most of those reservists have no armour, fighting with barely a tunic, sandals and a cape of their own. But they have sturdy shields and spears provided by their local government, as well as a patriotism to their beloved City-States that drives them to wear their flag's colours with a lot of pride and determination. In the event of a siege, they shall join the garrisoning troops of their cities in order to help defending the walls, dutifully contributing for the protection of their homes and families.
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As such, taking over any City-State of the Athenian Fields is really though business! With a substantial part of their civilian citizens joining the defense of their sturdy walls, only a ridiculously determined attacking force would be able to have a chance of making a successful assault, which means that any attacker's best bet would be to sit tight and wait for the besieged city to starve out of supplies. That, of course, if the citizens do not sally the gates alongside their City's armies, taking the fight to the enemy and crushing the besiegers without any kind of mercy.