​ア​フ​リ​カ​反​乱​軍 ​投​擲​兵​器​艦

Artillery Penteres - African Onager (Ship)

With deck-mounted artillery pieces, these ships can rain down destruction on the enemy.

Few men willingly hold the line when an onager fires on them.

The 'five', called a quinquereme in Latin and a penteres in Greek, was a ship first used by the Syracusans against the Carthaginians sometime around 398BC. Like other polyremes, a term meaning many-oared, the chances were that it did not have five banks of oars but that the word 'oar' was used to mean 'rower'. In such a case, the arrangement of rowers would be two-two-one going up from the waterline. It makes sense to keep as much weight as possible low in the vessel to help its stability; a high centre of gravity makes any ship liable to capsize if struck from the side. The quinquereme, then, would be a formidable vessel both in terms of appearance and combat value. With a large fighting contingent aboard and plenty of deck space, this heavy vessel could cope with most enemies and threats.

(African Onager (Ship))
Named after the wild ass with a dangerous kick, the onager catapult had a mighty kick all of its own, as crews quickly discovered. Although not accurate, it could hurl extremely heavy missiles over significant distances. Its throwing arm was pushed through a twisted bundle of animal sinew, held in a solid wooden frame. Pulled back, the tension in the sinew held an incredible amount of power until the arm snapped forwards and the deadly cargo was launched. The arm smacked into the frame, and it was this impact on every shot that made the entire machine lurch about unpredictably. An area-attack weapon, the onager was best suited to siege work, but it could be fired against tightly packed units of troops as well. The missiles launched could be as varied as rocks, clay pots filled with incendiary mixtures, and even dead bodies to spread disease and despair. Severed heads were gruesomely fired into besieged towns from time to time, as a warning of what was to come. Easily constructed from timber, the onager was used throughout the ancient world.

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Abilities

Artillery Penteres

• Row Hard 20
  Increases speed for 20 strokes.
  Ship speed

Attributes

• ​疾​走​不​可
  ​こ​の​部​隊​は​疾​走​す​る​事​が​で​き​な​い​為、​歩​行​速​度​で​し​か​移​動​で​き​な​い。
• ​暑​さ​耐​性
  T​こ​の​部​隊​は、​砂​漠​に​よ​る​疲​労​を​受​け​に​く​い。

Strengths & Weaknesses

Artillery Penteres

• Good hull strength
• Skeleton crew
• Average speed
• Average ramming
• Abysmal boarding
• Exceptional missile combat

African Onager (Ship)

• Long range
• High damage with its different rounds
• Hard to destroy
• Inaccurate
• Average rate of fire

​ア​フ​リ​カ​反​乱​軍 Units
General (2)
1.Chariot Raiders
2.Large Shield Warriors
​近​接​歩​兵 (1)
3.Swordsmen
​飛​び​道​具​歩​兵 (4)
4.Archers
5.Javelinmen
6.Tribal Slingers
7.Tribesmen
​槍​歩​兵 (1)
8.Levy Spearmen
​近​接​騎​兵 (1)
9.Aethiopian Cavalry
​設​置​式​投​擲​兵​器 (3)
10.African Giant Ballista
11.African Bastion Scorpion
12.African Scorpion (Fixed)
​野​戦​投​擲​兵​器 (6)
13.African Bastion Ballista
14.African Ballista
15.African Scorpion
16.African Heavy Onager
17.African Bastion Onager
18.African Onager
Admiral (2)
19.Scorpion Trieres - Tribal Slingers
20.Assault Hexeres - Large Shield Warriors
​近​接​艦 (3)
21.Assault Hexeres - Swordsmen
22.Fire Pot Dieres - Levy Spearmen
23.Assault Dieres - Levy Spearmen
​飛​び​道​具​艦 (6)
24.Tower Penteres - Archers
25.Missile Penteres - Archers
26.Scorpion Trieres - Tribal Slingers
27.Missile Trieres - Tribal Slingers
28.Raiding Hemiolia - Libyan Javelinmen
29.Pursuit Trihemiolia - Libyan Javelinmen
​投​擲​兵​器​艦 (2)
30.Light Artillery Penteres - African Ballista (Ship)
31.Artillery Penteres - African Onager (Ship)