​Battlefield Role: Heavy Infantry
Weapons: A trusty Longsword and a vast steel kite shield.
Outfit: Full plate segmented armour, enclosed helmet and a diluted tyrian purple uniform. Their armour is excellent in quality, though it's crude and not nearly as opulent as Iphalos' upper class soldiers.
Skill level: Average in melee combat. Specialized in land combat.
Affiliation: City-State of Iphalos, in Amphitrite Bay
Doctrine: Amphitrite's Way of the Seafarer
Strengths: Reliable soldiers, well armoured and trained. Despite their humble origins, their gear is really top quality stuff.
Weaknesses: They are not nearly as good as other Amphitritian soldiers in naval battles.
Iphalosian Footsoldiers
Unlike the other citie-states of Amphitrite Bay, Iphalos is neither an island nor a highly defensible peninsula surrounded by mountains. It is a long strip of coastal plains with some plateaus and cliffs further inland, having little to no natural defenses on its borders, aside from shallow rivers separating it from Adlerfurt to the East, and from the Athenian Plains to the North. This actually means the region is highly susceptible to land invasions, which makes the military focus of it's armed forces much more centered in land battles than any other Amphitritian faction.
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With that in mind, Iphalos' army is substantially stronger than Iphalos' navy, receiving much higher funds than the armada bearing the mighty Octopus Flag. The footsoldiers of Riffwall reflect that reality, being impressingly well-equipped for such low-ranking infantry forces.
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Recruited from the lower class of Iphalos City itself, those footsoldiers come from humble families of divers, fishers and farmers. Though they aren't very poor and do relatively well for a lower class, they aren't wealthy either, so their uniforms and armour are provided by the local government, which acquire quite good stuff for them to wear and wield in battle.
Such an expensive investiment is both to show off the region's wealth and to make the bulk of Iphalos' infantry regiments strong in land confrontations, protecting the hegemony of the City-State's semi-autonmous Oligarchy. The Footsoldiers' uniforms are actually dyed in (highly diluted) tyrian purple from the local dyeworks, proudly displaying Iphalos' expensive colours under the fine suits of armour hand-taylored for each soldier. Their armour pieces might not be full of adornments and covered in prescious metals like that of the upper-class Dames of Iphalos' heavy cavalry, but it's the same metal forged by the same smiths, just as resilient and efficient as the fancy suits of the elite.
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