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Strike Currach - Celtic Light Boatmen

Keelless and silent, a simple vessel to bring death to enemy shores.

Fighting effectively at sea takes skill, courage, and sea-legs in abundance.

Small rowing boats were useful for fishing and small-scale military actions, enabling troops to silently row ashore and surprise the enemy. In the northern part of Celtic Britain, the most common form of boat for such uses was a small vessel of leather skins stretched over and bound to a wooden frame. Known by various names depending on its makers country of origin, it was generally called a 'currach' or 'curragh' in Ireland or Scotland, but sometimes 'naomhog' - literally 'little female saint' - or 'canoe' in the west of the country. In Wales, the Isle of Man, and along the northwestern coasts of England the same boat was known as a 'coracle'. Larger versions were also constructed, using planks but otherwise following the same methods and known as 'curach adhmaid' or 'bad iomartha', which mean, somewhat unimaginatively, 'wooden currach' and 'rowing boat' respectively.

(Celtic Light Boatmen)
Naval warfare in the ancient world was just another way for infantry to fight one another. The earliest documented naval battles are those of ancient China, 'grapple and hook' battles where boarding operations and close-quarters combat decided the victor. During the Second Punic War, Rome famously broke Carthage's mastery of the waves by creating the 'corvus' - a bridge that allowed its soldiers to board and fight. The distinction, then, in antiquity, between fighting on land and at sea was small, yet chiefly a matter of 'sea legs' - maintaining balance whilst toppling your opponent.

Strike Currach - Celtic Light Boatmen

Unit Name

Strike Currach - Celtic Light Boatmen

Main Unit Key

att_shp_cel_boatmen_lib_light_ram

Land Unit Key

att_mar_cel_celtic_light_boatmen

Naval Unit Key

att_lib_light_ram_cel

Soldiers

20

Category

Light Ship

Class

Ramming Ship

Custom Battle Cost

230

Recruitment Cost

230

Upkeep Cost

120

Hull Strength

1800

└ Ship

att_shp_light_liburnian_ram

Speed

6

Melee Attack

48

Melee Damage

32

├ Melee Weapon

att_spear

├ Melee Base Damage

24

├ Armour-piercing Damage

8

├ Armour Piercing

No

├ Attack Against Cavalry

20

├ Attack Against Elephants

20

└ Attack Against Infantry

0

Charge Bonus

33

Melee Defence

20

├ Base Defence

10

├ Shield

att_oval

└ Shield Defence

10

Armour

40

├ Armour

att_leather

├ Armour Defence

10

└ Shield Armour

30

Health

97

├ Man Entity

att_infantry_medium

├ Man Health

90

└ Bonus Hit Points

7

Morale

34

Abilities

Celtic Light Boatmen
  • Ramming Speed!
    Increases the speed of a ship in order to cause greater damage when it hits the enemy.

Attributes

  • Resistant to Fatigue
    Fatigue has less of an effect on this unit.
  • Hide (forest)
    This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
  • Scare (everyone)
    This unit frightens all enemy units.
  • Immune to Fear
    This unit is immune to the fear effects of scary units.

Strengths & Weaknesses

No Strengths and Weaknesses
Requires Buildings
Strike Currach - Celtic Light Boatmen Lv. 0 Military Port
Military Port
(att_bld_all_resources_port_military_4)
Level 4