Missile Quinquereme - Auxiliary Egyptian Archers
Archers can shoot down upon many enemies from the deck, doing terrible work in the process.Archers can strike down the enemies of Rome at a distance.
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.
(Auxiliary Egyptian Archers)
Native troops supported the Greek phalanxes of Ptolemaic Egypt. Brave and proud warriors, Egyptians fulfilled several roles, but were most commonly used as peltasts, skirmishers on the flanks of the phalanxes, or as non-phalanx infantry in difficult terrain. Although the Ptolemies adopted all the trappings of the Pharaohs and their religious infrastructure, there was still much unrest among the native population long after the succession. This was due mainly to the way the Greek overlords used the traditions of the Pharaohs to fill their coffers at the expensive of ordinary people. The core of Ptolemaic armies was always Greek until the Battle of Raphia in 217BC, when they faced such a large Seleucid force and Ptolemy IV was forced to muster some 30,000 native Egyptians for the first time. Need overcame the suspicion of the disenchanted natives; the performance of the Egyptians in battle eventually led to a greater proportion of native troops in the Egyptian army and, in time, more diverse roles for those men as they gained the trust of their Greek commanders.
Unit Name Missile Quinquereme - Auxiliary Egyptian Archers |
Main Unit Key Aux_Egy_Archers_Five |
Land Unit Key Aux_Egy_Archers |
Naval Unit Key roman_five |
Soldiers 140 |
Category Medium Ship |
Class Missile Ship |
Custom Battle Cost 700 |
Recruitment Cost 700 |
Upkeep Cost 140 |
35 |
├ Missile Weapon rome_bow |
├ Projectile arrow_normal |
├ Missile Damage 31 |
├ Missile Ap Damage 4 |
└ Base Reload Time 12 |
Accuracy 5 |
Range 125 |
Reload 13 |
Shots Per Minute 6 |
Ammunition 15 |
1020 |
└ Ship roman_five |
Ship Speed 5 |
Melee Attack 8 |
24 |
├ Melee Weapon rome_shortsword |
├ Melee Damage Base 20 |
├ Melee Damage Ap 4 |
├ Armour Piercing No |
├ Bonus vs. Large 0 |
├ Bonus vs Elephants 0 |
└ Bonus vs Infantry 0 |
Charge Bonus 3 |
12 |
├ Base Defence 12 |
├ Shield none |
└ Shield Defence 0 |
10 |
├ Armour cloth |
├ Armour Defence 10 |
└ Shield Armour 0 |
45 |
├ Man Entity rome_infantry_very_light |
├ Man Health 40 |
└ Bonus Hit Points 5 |
Base Morale 25 |
Abilities
Missile Quinquereme- Row Hard 20
Increases speed for 20 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. - Resistant to Heat
This unit tires less quickly in the desert.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Missile Quinquereme- Good hull strength
- Medium crew
- Average speed
- Average ramming
- Poor boarding
- Good missile combat
- Long range
- Average rate of fire
- Good damage but low armour penetration
- Very weak in melee
- Very poor morale
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Unit Resouces | Auxilia_Egyptian | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Campaign Regions
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Lv. 0 |
Coastal Patrol
(rome_port_patrol_4) Level 3 |
Faction Availability | |
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Grand Campaign | |
Samnite Wars | |
Imperator Augustus |
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