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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: usual guerilla tactics, but also making assaults on fortified posts.
The heavy infantry of the Arcadians positively refused to face them in
the field, so profound was the terror in which they held these light
troops. In compensation, the light troops themselves entertained a
wholesome dread of the Lacedaemonians, and did not venture to approach
even within javelin-range of their heavy infantry. They had been
taught a lesson when, within that distance, some of the younger
hoplites had made a dash at them, catching and putting some of them to
the sword. But however profound the contempt of the Lacedaemonians for
these light troops, their contempt for their own allies was deeper.
(On one occasion[16] a reinforcement of Mantineans had sallied from
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