Mercenary Thraike Peltasts

There were some forty tribes of Thracians who shared a common language and culture, inhabiting a vast area north of the Greek city-states. They were seen as war-loving, rebellious, rambunctious, bad enemies, and good allies in a fight. Many Greeks dreaded a time when they would be united under a single leader and sweep southwards. Such a turn of events never happened, but Thracians could be found across much of the Greek and Persian world fighting as mercenaries; they often specialised as skirmishers and light troops. At the Battle of Raphia in 217BC there were Thracians in both opposing armies, ready to do bloody work. The forward curving rhomphaia with its razor-sharp blade and long handle could lop off limbs in the hands of a skilled user, and Thracians were certainly skilled. The most famous Thracian 'general' of all never actually fought an action in Thrace or in command of a Thracian army; he was Spartacus, the commander of the last great slave rebellion against Rome in 73-71BC.

Unit Name Mercenary Thraike Peltasts

Main Unit Key Pel_Mer_Thr_Peltasts

Land Unit Key Mer_Pel_Thr_Peltasts

Naval Unit Key pel_transport

Soldiers 120

Category Missile Infantry

Class Missile Infantry

Custom Battle Cost 480

Recruitment Cost 360

Upkeep Cost 270

Missile Damage 15

├ Missile Weapon rome_javelin_improved

├ Projectile javelin_improved

├ Missile Damage 13

├ Missile Ap Damage 2

└ Base Reload Time 9

Accuracy 5

Range 103

Reload 23

Shots Per Minute 9

Ammunition 7

Melee Attack 28

Weapon Damage 35

├ Melee Weapon rome_balkan_sword

├ Weapon Damage 25

├ Weapon Deadliness 10

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Cavalry 0

├ Bonus vs. Elephants 0

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 12

Melee Defence 40

├ Base Defence 15

├ Shield pelta

└ Shield Defence 25

Armour 15

├ Armour cloth

├ Armour Defence 10

└ Shield Armour 5

Health 35

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_light

├ Man Health 20

└ Bonus Hit Points 15

Base Morale 45

Abilities

No Ability

Attributes

• Improved Stamina
  This unit type has an improvement on the base stamina stat.
• Hide (scrub & forest)
  This unit can hide in scrub and forest until enemy units get too close.
• Hide (scrub & forest)
  This unit can hide in scrub and forest until enemy units get too close.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

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

Macedonian Wars Mercenaries Pool

Mercenaries Pool
No.	Pool	Province	Region	Initial Unit Count	Chance To Replenish	Max Replenish Per Turn	Max Count
1	pel_generic	Aigian	Khios Mytilene Oinoi Samos	0	0.15	1	4
2	pel_generic	Aitolia	Naupaktos Thermon	0	0.15	1	4
3	pel_generic	Ambrakia	Ambrakia Anaktorio Pronnoi	0	0.15	1	4
4	pel_generic	Amphipolis	Amphipolis Krinides	0	0.15	1	4
5	pel_generic	Argolis	Argos Korinthos Mantinea Melos	0	0.15	1	4
6	pel_generic	Attike	Athenai Laurion Naxos Paros	0	0.15	1	4
7	pel_generic	Boiotia	Delphi Lamia Opos Thebai	0	0.15	1	4
8	pel_generic	Dodekanisa	Karpathos Kos Lindos Rodos	0	0.15	1	4
9	pel_generic	Elis	Elis Olympia Patrai Zakynthos	0	0.15	1	4
10	pel_generic	Epeiros	Antigonia Dodona Elaea Korkyra	0	0.15	1	4
11	pel_generic	Euboia	Andros Kalkis Karystos Oreos	0	0.15	1	4
12	pel_generic	Hellespontos	Byzantion Kypsela Perinthos Sestos	0	0.15	1	4
13	pel_generic	Ionia	Ephesos Halikarnassos Knidos Miletos	0	0.15	1	4
14	pel_generic	Kalkidiki	Mende Olinthos Torone	0	0.15	1	4
15	pel_generic	Karia	Kibyra Kolossai Phaselis Xanthos	0	0.15	1	4
16	pel_generic	Krete	Gortyna Knossos Kydonia	0	0.15	1	4
17	pel_generic	Lakedaimon	Kythera Messenia Pylos Sparta	0	0.15	1	4
18	pel_generic	Lydia	Sardeis Smyrna	0	0.15	1	4
19	pel_generic	Makedonia	Pella Argos Orestiko Arnisa Dion	0	0.15	1	4
20	pel_generic	Mysia	Ilion Kyzikos Myrina Pergamon	0	0.15	1	4
21	pel_generic	Thessalia	Larisa Pharsalos Pherae	0	0.15	1	4
22	pel_generic	Thraike	Abdera Ainos Maroneia Thasos	0	0.15	1	4