Aedui Missile Ship

Medium Missile Raider - Celtic Slingers

Tough warships for harrying the enemy, constructed to take on the worst of seas.

These slingers, eager for glory in battle, are highly effective skirmishers.

Most of the northern European tribes were not naval powers, but there were still able seafarers to be found amongst them. Shipbuilding techniques were well understood, so while many vessels were small leather-skinned boats for inland and inshore use, bigger sea-going vessels were also made. Shipwrights used heavy planking for hulls, stitched together and then fastened to a wooden skeleton to create sturdy craft able to cope with Atlantic conditions. Julius Caesar was surprised at the quality of the enemy ships when his fleet clashed with the Veneti from modern-day Brittany. The Veneti vessels had flat bottoms to cope with shallows, but were also of heavy oak construction to cope with rough seas. This made them tough opposition for Roman galleys, and capable of shrugging off a ramming attack. Caesar said that the enemy ships "...were constructed of planks a foot in breadth, fastened by iron spikes the thickness of a man's thumb; the anchors were secured fast by iron chains instead of cables”. When the Romans were forced to board, they faced fearsome warriors used to close-quarters fighting at sea.

(Celtic Slingers)
As far as the Celts were concerned, the best way to kill a man was in hand-to-hand combat. The Celts thought there was great value in personal bravery and there was no honour in killing from a distance. Even so, slingers, javelinmen and archers still had their place on the battlefield. It was often the only way that some Celts could go to war: Celtic warriors paid for their own equipment, so only the wealthy could afford, or had the right to carry, fine armour and weapons. Skirmishers were usually the poor: freemen who served as clients to the noble class. While they could never hope to achieve the same status as their noble masters, they could still prove their worth in the cut and thrust of battle.

Abilities

Medium Missile Raider

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

Attributes

• Resistant to Fatigue
  Fatigue has less of an effect on this unit.
• Hide (scrub & forest)
  This unit can hide in scrub and forest until enemy units get too close.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Medium Missile Raider

• Good hull strength
• Medium crew
• Fast speed
• Weak ramming
• Poor boarding
• Good missile combat

Celtic Slingers

• Very long range
• Average rate of fire
• Low damage but average armour penetration
• Very weak in melee
• Very poor morale

Aedui Units
General (3)
1.Noble Horse
2.Oathsworn
3.Spear Nobles
Melee Infantry (4)
4.Chosen Swordsmen
5.Naked Warriors
6.Oathsworn
7.Celtic Warriors
Missile Infantry (4)
8.Gallic Hunters
9.Celtic Skirmishers
10.Celtic Slingers
11.Celtic Youths
Spear Infantry (5)
12.Chosen Spearmen
13.Levy Freemen
14.Spear Nobles
15.Spear Warriors
16.Celtic Tribesmen
Melee Cavalry (3)
17.Heavy Horse
18.Light Horse
19.Noble Horse
Fixed Artillery (3)
20.Celtic Giant Ballista
21.Celtic Bastion Scorpion
22.Celtic Scorpion (Fixed)
Field Artillery (6)
23.Celtic Bastion Ballista
24.Celtic Ballista
25.Celtic Scorpion
26.Celtic Heavy Onager
27.Celtic Bastion Onager
28.Celtic Onager
Special (1)
29.Savage Dogs
Admiral (2)
30.Heavy Raider - Oathsworn
31.Medium Missile Raider - Celtic Slingers
Melee Ship (4)
32.Assault Raider - Levy Freemen
33.Heavy Raider - Oathsworn
34.Persian Assault Teteres - Spear Warriors
35.Medium Assault Raider - Celtic Warriors
Missile Ship (3)
36.Greek Missile Penteres - Celtic Slingers
37.Medium Missile Raider - Celtic Slingers
38.Missile Raider - Celtic Slingers
Artillery Ship (2)
39.Roman Light Artillery Quinquereme - Celtic Ballista (Ship)
40.Roman Artillery Quinquereme - Celtic Onager (Ship)