Salvete commilitones,
as I announced on the other thread, here is an own thread for our new mercenary units. As we discussed before, we will have Mercenary centers and mercenary ports for those factions that utilized mercenaries the most- especially the hellenistic kingdoms and Carthage. There will still be AOR mercenaries available in field in their correspondent home territories (like Rhodian slingers on Rhodes) and we will need to discuss them later, along with AOR levies available to the Successor states and other big states. So for now, here are the mercenary centers and ports and their respective mercenaries:
Mercenary CentersPella (Macedon)
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Aitolian Pirates
Illyrian Spearmen - CHEAPER thanks to them becoming cleruchs in Macedon
Cretan archers- CHEAPER thanks to treaty between Macedon and Cretan cities
Gallic/Galatian swordsmen - CHEAPER thanks to cleruchies
Galatian skirmishers (javelinmen) - CHEAPER thanks to cleruchies
Thracian Infantry
Rhodian Slingers
Greek Hoplites
Mercenary Pezoi
Galatian Cavalry- CHEAPER (see above)
Illyrian Cavalry - CHEAPER
Trallian Guard- REFORM Unit (Mercenary bodyguard of the king)
Thermon (Aitolian League)
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Tarentine Cavalry
Cretan Archers
Akarnanian Hoplites
Antiocheia (Seleucids)
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Mercenary Pezoi
Galatian Swordsmen
Galatian Cavalry
Cretan Archers
Rhodian Slingers
Thracian Infantry
Greek Hoplites
Amisos/Amaseia (Pontos)
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Galatian swordsmen
Galatian cavalry
Scythian horse archers - after REFORM
Cretan archers- REFORM
Thracian Infantry - REFORM
Sparta (Sparta) (Not there at the start, can be build after reforms)
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Greek mercenary cavalry
Tarentine cavalry
Cretan archers
Peloponnesian hoplites
Pergamon (Pergamon)
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Trallian infantry
Cretan archers
Rhodian slingers
Achaian peltasts
Galatian cavalry (REFORM)
Galatian infantry (REFORM)
Aigion (Achaian League) (Only buildable after reform)
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Thracian Cavalry
Illyrian Spearmen
Mercenary Peltasts
Tarentine Cavalry
Cretan Archers
Ambrakia (Epiros)
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Aitolian Pirates
Aitolian Cavalry (Hippakontistai)
Aitolian Peltasts
Akarnanian Hoplites
Galatian Swordsmen
Tarentine Cavalry
Mercenary Pezoi
Baktra (or whatever their capital will be, since they are not in yet)
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Greek Hoplites
Mercenary Thureophoroi
Mercenary Thorakitai
Mercenary Pezoi
Mercenary Peltasts
Dahae horse archers
Illyrian cavalry
Mercenary Prodromoi
Gortyn (Cretans)
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Carian Warriors
Thracian Infantry
Peloponnesian Hoplites
Carthage (Carthage)
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Greek Hoplites
Greek Mercenary Cavalry
Celtiberian Warriors
Nuragic Archers
Corsi Javelinmen
Gallic Swordsmen
Mauri Cavalry
Mauri Iaculatores
Balearic Slingers
Iberian Scutarii
Iberian Cavalry
Libyan Javelinmen
Libyan Hoplites/Spearmen
Numidian Cavalry
Carthago Nova (Carthage)
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Gallic Swordsmen
Mauri Cavalry
Mauri Iaculatores
Nuragic Archers
Balearic Slingers
Libyan Javelinmen
Numidian Cavalry
Lilybaion (Carthage)
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Iberian Cavalry
Ligurian Warriors
Gallic Swordsmen
Nuragic Archers
Torrean Warriors
Hopplomachi Campani
Celtiberian Warriors
Iberian Scutarii
Balearic Slingers
Libyan Javelinmen
Libyan Hoplites
Numidian Cavalry
Syracuse (Syracuse)
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Hopplomachi Campani
Oscan Swordsmen
Iberian Scutarii
Etruscan Hoplites
Bruttian Swordsmen
Lucanian Spearmen
Peloponnesian Hoplites
Roman Deserters- REFORM
Athens (Athens)
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Thracian Infantry
Tarentien Cavalry
Carian Warriors
Rhodes (Rhodos)
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Cretan archers- CHEAPER due to treaty with Hierapytna
Alexandria (Ptolemaic Empire)
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Aitolian Peltasts
Rhodian Slingers
Thracian Broadswordsmen
Carian Warriors/Light Infantry (or AOR Egypt as normal troops, considering their history)
Peloponnesian Hoplites
Cretan Archers
Galatian Swordsmen
Mercenary Pezoi
General questions that are still open:
1. Should the normal Thracian infantry fight with a falx? (Needing some Thracian expert here). Edit: Vanilla RTW said they used a falx called Romphaia. Wikipedia confirms it, but both sources might not be the best.
2. Would the (Celt)Iberians use the Falcata? (Needing some Iberian expert here)
I just changed my mind there, they should be a regular unit there, considering the fact that Rhodos controlled Caria for most of the time between 280 BC and the Roman conquest.
I hope it's even possible that Carthage has access to different units in different cities, haha. And if we follow up on the idea that you can build new mercenary centers, we would need to decide which units should be available there.
Added Thracian and Greek mercenaries to Gortyn (both were used by the Cretan city states). I took the Peloponnesian hoplites for them since it seems to make sense and we already have the unit. We might also add mercenary peltasts, and Cretan slingers for other factions (see other threads).
Just had a chat with Cheesy_Freak, here's what he said on Carthage's Iberian warriors:
Celtiberian Warriors: Swordsmen, used the gladius hispaniensis, other Celts would use Iron antena swords or other local variants
Iberian Scutarii: Used a Scutum and spear or falcata (http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/5488/folco7tj.png)
Iberian (Scutarii) Cavalry: With a scutum, like this (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/0009cimbri.jpg)
Quote from: Mausolos of Caria on March 01, 2014, 01:27:16 AM
I hope it's even possible that Carthage has access to different units in different cities, haha. And if we follow up on the idea that you can build new mercenary centers, we would need to decide which units should be available there.
Doable. That's EDB work, same like any AOR unit.
(We will be able to identify each settlement specifically)