Mercenary Eastern Javelinmen
| Recruitment Cost | 230 | |
| Upkeep Cost | 170 | |
| Missile Damage | 41 | |
| Range | 80 | |
| Shots Per Minute | 7 | |
| Ammunition | 7 | |
| Melee Attack | 8 | |
| Weapon Damage | 24 | |
| Charge Bonus | 3 | |
| Melee Defence | 37 | |
| Armour | 15 | |
| Health | 45 | |
| Base Morale | 20 |
Abilities
- Resistant to Fatigue
- Hide (scrub & forest)
- Resistant to Heat
- Flaming Shot
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Short range
- Fast rate of fire
- Very good damage and armour penetration
- Very weak in melee
- Very poor morale
Description
The javelin is among the oldest weapons in human hands. Equipped with javelins and little else, skirmishers harried their opposite numbers and peppered hoplite phalanxes before quickly retreating. This was the typical tactic of all unarmoured, javelin-armed troops: to engage at range and then fall back behind more heavily-armoured infantry, or continue attacks while trying to stay just out of reach of the enemy. Such harassment could be highly effective, in 391BC at the Battle of Lechaeum a force of Spartans, lacking the support of skirmishers or cavalry, were severely punished by javelin-armed Athenians who refused to meet them at close quarters. Over time, shields became common, such as those used by Thracian and Greek peltasts, but in turn these were rendered obsolescent by the Hellenic thureophoroi. Nevertheless, javelinmen and other irregulars continued to play a part in many armies throughout antiquity.
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