Senate loyalists Field Artillery

Roman Heavy Onager

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.

Unit Name Roman Heavy Onager

Main Unit Key Rom_Large_Onager

Land Unit Key Rom_Large_Onager

Naval Unit Key pel_transport

Soldiers 40

Category Siege Engine

Class Field Artillery

Custom Battle Cost 1790

Recruitment Cost 790

Upkeep Cost 160

Missile Damage 230

├ Engine onager_large

├ Missile Weapon rome_onager_large

├ Projectile rock_large

├ Missile Damage 115

├ Missile Ap Damage 115

└ Base Reload Time 27

Accuracy 5

Range 480

Reload 4

Shots Per Minute 2

Ammunition 15

Melee Attack 9

Weapon Damage 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 6

Melee Defence 14

├ Base Defence 14

├ Shield none

└ Shield Defence 0

Armour 40

├ Armour mail

├ Armour Defence 40

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 45

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_medium

├ Man Health 40

└ Bonus Hit Points 5

Base Morale 40

Abilities

No Ability

Attributes

• Cannot Run
  This unit cannot run and will only move at walking pace.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

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

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Siege Engineers' Workshop (rome_military_siege_3) Level 2

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