Hispania Citerior (Empire Divided) Melee Ship

Assault Quadrireme - Auxiliary Swordsmen

There is a good deal of debate as to how large ancient warships worked; the principles are understood, but the details are not always so clear. A Roman 'quadreme' or Greek 'tetreres' would seem to have four rows of oars if the name is translated literally. However, it is unclear how four sets of oars each with one rower apiece could be used without them getting in a terrible tangle even with a magnificently trained crew, or how the top set of rowers would be able to handle the extremely long oars pitched at a steep angle and still produce any power. The chances are that the term 'oar' had become synonymous with 'rower' and that the lowest bank had more than one man per oar. The other option was to go back to a double row of oars, with two men apiece. Two banks of oars would also have made for a cheaper construction task for each ship. Either way, the result was a ship that could rival the lighter trireme in speed, yet had more deck space for a large fighting contingent or artillery pieces.

(Auxiliary Swordsmen)
The auxilia incorporated all standing non-citizen military units of the Imperial Roman army during the Principate era, containing roughly the same numbers of infantry as the Legions as well as more specialised troops, such as light cavalry and archers. Auxiliary regiments were stationed in the lands where they were originally recruited in order to boost the process of Romanisation and for security. In the mid to late 3rd century AD Roman armies suffered a deadly combination of military disasters and plague. The recruitment deficiency caused by this crisis led to the conscription of barbarians as auxiliaries to a much greater extent than before. As the auxiliary warriors were not civilised Romans, they were paid one third the pay of a citizen legionary.

Unit Name Assault Quadrireme - Auxiliary Swordsmen

Main Unit Key 3c_Aux_Assault_Quadreme

Land Unit Key 3c_Aux_Swordsmen

Naval Unit Key 3c_roman_four

Soldiers 120

Category Medium Ship

Class Melee Ship

Custom Battle Cost 740

Recruitment Cost 740

Upkeep Cost 150

Missile Damage 32

├ Missile Weapon rome_javelin_precursor

├ Projectile javelin_prec

├ Missile Damage 20

├ Missile Ap Damage 12

└ Base Reload Time 15

Accuracy 5

Range 40

Reload 0

Shots Per Minute 4

Ammunition 2

Ship Health 825

└ Ship roman_four

Ship Speed 6

Melee Attack 34

Weapon Damage 35

├ Melee Weapon rome_gladius

├ Melee Damage Base 30

├ Melee Damage Ap 5

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 0

├ Bonus vs Elephants 0

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 10

Melee Defence 45

├ Base Defence 20

├ Shield thureos

└ Shield Defence 25

Armour 60

├ Armour chest

├ Armour Defence 25

└ Shield Armour 35

Health 50

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_heavy

├ Man Health 40

└ Bonus Hit Points 10

Base Morale 40

Abilities

• Row Hard 10
  Increases speed for 10 strokes.
  Ship speed

Attributes

• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Average hull strength
• Medium crew
• Average speed
• Average ramming
• Average boarding

• Good attack
• Average defence
• Average damage but low armour penetration
• Normal morale

Recuitment Requirement
Unit Resouces	3c_Roman_Auxilia
Empire Divided Regions Provinces Regions Cisalpina Genua Mediolanum Patavium Corsica et Sardinia Aleria Caralis Italia Beneventum Brundisium Cosentia Latium Ariminium Arretium Asculum Roma Sicily Agrigentum Panormus Syracuse
Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Drydock (3c_rome_port_military_3) Level 2 Portus Classis (3c_rome_port_military_4) Level 3

Faction Availability
Empire Divided	Gallic Rome (Empire Divided) Gallic Roman Pretenders (Empire Divided) Gallic Roman Secessionists (Empire Divided) Britannia (Empire Divided) Hispania Citerior (Empire Divided) Lusitania (Empire Divided) Palmyra (Empire Divided) Palmyrene Pretenders (Empire Divided) Palmyrene Secessionists (Empire Divided) Roman Pretenders (Empire Divided) Roman Secessionists (Empire Divided) Rome (Empire Divided)