Senate Secessionists Missile Ship

Raiding Hemiolia - Leves

The 'one-and-a-half' or 'hemiolia' was a light galley which was much favoured by pirates in the ancient world. It developed from the bireme, a ship that had two full decks of oars along its entire length. The hemiola reduced the number of oars on the upper level, leaving roughly half the number of oars and rowers in the midship section. The smaller number of rowers had little effect on overall speed because the laden weight of the vessel also dropped. Because it used both oars and sails, and the crew could rapidly change propulsion method, it was an ideal vessel for chasing down fat, wealthy merchant ships. Boarding attacks were mounted from hemiolas; ramming was not a useful tactic as loot ended up with the fish rather than enriching the pirates! The speed and handiness of hemiolas made them useful as scouts, supply boats and vessels used to pick off damaged enemies at the edge of battles.

(Leves)
Under the early Roman army’s Camillan system, if you were poor or low born then you might well have found yourself in battle with little more than a spear in your hand. Typically the poorest members of a Roman Legion, leves were attached to the hastati and faced the full enemy onslaught. They were used as a screen and to skirmish with the enemy’s front line. Un able to afford much armour, the leves used javelins in support of their richer compatriots. Historically, there were 300 leves alongside 900 hastati: 20 leves in front of each of the 60 maniples. They were replaced by velites, who were deployed across the three main lines of a maniple.

Unit Name Raiding Hemiolia - Leves

Main Unit Key Rom_Leves_One_Halfer

Land Unit Key Rom_Leves

Naval Unit Key roman_one_halfer

Soldiers 80

Category Light Ship

Class Missile Ship

Custom Battle Cost 270

Recruitment Cost 270

Upkeep Cost 54

Missile Damage 29

├ Missile Weapon rome_wooden_javelin

├ Projectile javelin_wooden

├ Missile Damage 20

├ Missile Ap Damage 9

└ Base Reload Time 10

Accuracy 5

Range 80

Reload 8

Shots Per Minute 7

Ammunition 7

Ship Health 402

└ Ship roman_one_halfer

Ship Speed 6

Melee Attack 5

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 3

Melee Defence 37

├ Base Defence 12

├ Shield pelta

└ Shield Defence 25

Armour 15

├ Armour cloth

├ Armour Defence 10

└ Shield Armour 5

Health 45

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_very_light

├ Man Health 40

└ Bonus Hit Points 5

Base Morale 20

Abilities

• 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

• Very poor hull strength
• Light crew
• Very fast speed
• Weak ramming
• Very poor boarding
• Poor missile combat

• Short range
• Fast rate of fire
• Very good damage and armour penetration
• Very weak in melee
• Very poor morale

Requires Buildings

Lv. 0

Port (rome_port_1) Level 0 Fishing Port (rome_port_fish_2) Level 1 Fishmonger (rome_port_fish_3) Level 2 Forum Piscarium (rome_port_fish_4) Level 3 Military Wharf (rome_port_military_2) Level 1 Drydock (rome_port_military_3) Level 2 Portus Classis (rome_port_military_4) Level 3 Shipwright (rome_port_patrol_2) Level 1 Docks (rome_port_patrol_3) Level 2 Coastal Patrol (rome_port_patrol_4) Level 3 Harbour (rome_port_trade_2) Level 1 Trading Port (rome_port_trade_3) Level 2 Emporium (rome_port_trade_4) Level 3

Garrison Buildings
x 2	Port (rome_port_1) Level 0 Fishing Port (rome_port_fish_2) Level 1 Fishmonger (rome_port_fish_3) Level 2 Forum Piscarium (rome_port_fish_4) Level 3 Harbour (rome_port_trade_2) Level 1 Trading Port (rome_port_trade_3) Level 2 Emporium (rome_port_trade_4) Level 3
x 1	Military Wharf (rome_port_military_2) Level 1 Drydock (rome_port_military_3) Level 2 Portus Classis (rome_port_military_4) Level 3 Shipwright (rome_port_patrol_2) Level 1 Docks (rome_port_patrol_3) Level 2 Coastal Patrol (rome_port_patrol_4) Level 3

Faction Availability
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