so, he has this phalanx made up of these professionals that i'm talking about, but he added to that a group of people called the foot companions, pezetairoi is the greek word, who were the biggest and the strongest of all the macedonians and to that group he added the companion cavalry, the hetairoi themselves, the companions of the king, and of course these were the noblemen and they became personally attached to philip in a special way and were the most effective, the most reliable forces that he had, an elite core, and here again is something different.