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Fire Pot Dieres - Militia Hoplites

Fire pots, hurled onto enemy decks, are a terrible threat to wooden ships.

Any honest citizen can take up the shield and answer to the name of "hoplite".

The waterline ram was first mounted on a vessel in around 850BC. Warships and naval tactics were transformed. Ships were no longer platforms for infantry battles on the water; the ship itself became the weapon. Galleys changed as the new reality sank in. Ramming at speed would hole and sink an enemy, therefore slimmer, faster, handier ships were required. More speed on demand obviously required more oars a fast ship with a single row of oars ended up being stupidly, impractically long. The solution, then, was to put in a second set of oars above the first, but slightly offset to allow for rowers' benches. These biremes, a Latin word meaning 'two oars', or dieres, the Greek equivalent, were no longer than previous designs but had twice the number of rowers. They were fast, manoeuvrable, and could carry a fighting contingent. Some nations also gave their bireme crews fire pots; these clay pots filled with oil and pitch were hurled at enemy ships in the entirely reasonable hope of setting them ablaze.

(Militia Hoplites)
Hoplites date back to the wars between the Greek city-states in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. During the Greco-Persian Wars most hoplites wore a Corinthian-style bronze helm, and a cuirass of bronze or stiffened linen or canvas. They were armed with a short sword and an iron-tipped spear with a bronze counterbalance butt-spike. Hoplites were named, though, after the round hoplon shield they carried. The hoplon-and-spear combination required them to fight as a phalanx, a block of spearmen some eight ranks deep. When closed up, each man would find shelter behind the shield of his neighbour, creating a wall of bristling spear-points. While all hoplites were originally citizen-soldiers, full-time mercenaries took over and became the standard fighting unit of the Greek world. Later, under Phillip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, the shield became smaller, while the spear developed into the five metre sarissa pike. Many armies adopted the phalanx of hoplites as a tactical unit because it was very successful in battle.

Fire Pot Dieres - Militia Hoplites

Unit Name

Fire Pot Dieres - Militia Hoplites

Main Unit Key

Gre_Militia_Hop_Two_Fire_Pots

Land Unit Key

Gre_Militia_Hoplites

Naval Unit Key

greek_fire_pot_two

Soldiers

60

Category

Medium Ship

Class

Melee Ship

Custom Battle Cost

550

Recruitment Cost

550

Upkeep Cost

70

Ship Health

467

└ Ship

greek_two

Ship Speed

6

Melee Attack

20

Weapon Damage

30

├ Melee Weapon

rome_hoplite_spear

├ Melee Damage Base

16

├ Melee Damage Ap

14

├ Armour Piercing

No

├ Bonus vs. Large

10

├ Bonus vs Elephants

12

└ Bonus vs Infantry

0

Charge Bonus

18

Melee Defence

66

├ Base Defence

40

├ Shield

hoplite

└ Shield Defence

26

Armour

70

├ Armour

cloth

├ Armour Defence

27

└ Shield Armour

43

Health

70

├ Man Entity

rome_infantry_hoplite

├ Man Health

60

└ Bonus Hit Points

10

Base Morale

35

Abilities

Fire Pot Dieres
  • Row Hard 10
    Increases speed for 10 strokes.
    Ship speed
Militia Hoplites
  • Hoplite Wall
    The unit moves into close wall formation.
    Bracing, melee defence, shield strength
    Acceleration, speed
  • Square
    The unit moves into a close square formation.
    Bracing, morale, melee defence
    Can't move
  • Rapid Advance
    Improved unit movement speed over an extended period.
    Speed, acceleration, charge speed
    Exertion: fatigue

Attributes

  • Hide (forest)
    This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Fire Pot Dieres
  • Very poor hull strength
  • Very light crew
  • Fast speed
  • Very strong initial ramming
  • Good boarding
Militia Hoplites
  • Average defensive unit
  • Low damage but average armour penetration
  • Weak attack
  • Poor morale