Odrysian Secessionists Missile Cavalry

Thracian Cavalry

Homer, Greece’s greatest poet, praised the Thracians as “a race of horsemen”. The Thracians bred horses for racing and later improved the breed for warfare. Their horses were said to be larger and sturdier than those of the nomadic tribes to the north, and generally considered a match for most large Greek and Persian war horses. As cavalrymen, Thracians favoured speed and mobility above armour, making them well suited for tribal warfare of raids and skirmishing. When fighting as mercenaries and allies they were the perfect swift skirmishers for harassing enemies, often to the point of defeat and death, pelting a foe with javelins as they rode around at high speed.

Unit Name Thracian Cavalry

Main Unit Key Thr_Cav

Land Unit Key Thr_Cav

Naval Unit Key barbarian_transport_small

Soldiers 80

Category Cavalry

Class Missile Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 450

Recruitment Cost 450

Upkeep Cost 90

Missile Damage 32

├ Missile Weapon rome_javelin

├ Projectile javelin_normal

├ Missile Damage 20

├ Missile Ap Damage 12

└ Base Reload Time 10

Accuracy 5

Range 80

Reload 18

Shots Per Minute 7

Ammunition 7

Melee Attack 40

Weapon Damage 36

├ Melee Weapon rome_kopis

├ Melee Damage Base 30

├ Melee Damage Ap 6

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 0

├ Bonus vs Elephants 0

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 16

Melee Defence 36

├ Base Defence 16

├ Shield cavalry

└ Shield Defence 20

Armour 40

├ Armour cloth

├ Armour Defence 10

└ Shield Armour 30

Health 75

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_light

├ Man Health 40

├ Bonus Hit Points 10

├ Mount rome_celtic_horse_sword_shield_l

├ Mount Entity rome_horse_light

└ Mount Health 25

Base Morale 35

Abilities

No Ability

Attributes

• Resistant to Fatigue
  Fatigue has less of an effect on this unit.
• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Fire Whilst Moving
  This unit can fire when mounted and moving.
• Parthian Shot
  This unit can fire all around and not just in-front of itself.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Very poor hull strength
• Very slow speed
• Weak ramming

• Short range
• Fast rate of fire
• Fast moving
• Very good damage and armour penetration
• Large shield
• Very weak in melee
• Poor morale

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Horse Pens (barb_agriculture_horse_2) Level 1 Stables (barb_agriculture_horse_3) Level 2 Horse Ranch (barb_agriculture_horse_4) Level 3

Garrison Buildings
x 2	Horse Pens (barb_agriculture_horse_2) Level 1

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Odrysian Kingdom Odrysian tribal council Odrysian Secessionists Thracian Rebels
Imperator Augustus	Thracian Rebels (Imperator Augustus)