Vandals Melee Ship

Drekkar Dragonship - Elite Vandal Marauders

The drekkar or 'dragon ship' takes its name from the detailed carvings that decorated its prow. Adorned with dragons or snakes, it was designed to ward off the terrifying sea creatures that many people believed inhabited the dark places of the oceans - creatures like the kraken, a terrifying giant squid that could pull whole ships down to the depths, or the undead draugen. These reanimated corpses were men lost at sea that legend states appear during storms and on rough seas to sink boats. Some say that they could alter their size to monstrous proportions, others that they were covered in seaweed or were in fact headless.

(Elite Vandal Marauders)
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.

Unit Name Drekkar Dragonship - Elite Vandal Marauders

Main Unit Key att_shp_van_elite_marauders_lon_heavy

Land Unit Key att_mar_ger_elite_vandal_marauders

Naval Unit Key att_lon_heavy_mel_ger

Soldiers 128

Category Light Ship

Class Melee Ship

Custom Battle Cost 650

Recruitment Cost 650

Upkeep Cost 355

Missile Damage 100

├ Missile Weapon att_francisca_precursor

├ Projectile att_francisca_precursor_normal

├ Missile Damage 0

├ Missile Ap Damage 100

└ Base Reload Time 4

Accuracy 0

Range 50

Reload 25

Rate of Fire 20

Ammunition 1

Hull Strength 2000

└ Ship att_shp_heavy_longship_melee

Speed 6

Melee Attack 32

Melee Damage 50

├ Melee Weapon att_spatha_heavy

├ Melee Base Damage 36

├ Armour-piercing Damage 14

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Attack Against Cavalry 0

├ Attack Against Elephants 0

└ Attack Against Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 17

Melee Defence 37

├ Base Defence 37

├ Shield att_none

└ Shield Defence 0

Armour 23

├ Armour att_mail

├ Armour Defence 23

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 109

├ Man Entity att_infantry_light

├ Man Health 75

└ Bonus Hit Points 34

Morale 54

Abilities

• Douse Fire
  Sacrifice your ship's mobility for a short time to focus effort on putting out the blaze.
• Use the Whip
  Improved defence and fatigue resistance for a short time at the cost of overexertion.

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

Recuitment Requirement
Required Technology Cost 163 Upgrade From

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Vandalic Separatists Vandals
The Last Roman	Sardinians (The Last Roman) Vandalic Separatists (The Last Roman) Vandalic Kingdom (The Last Roman)