Taifa of Barcelona (Age of Charlemagne) Faction

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Taifa of Barcelona (Age of Charlemagne) Military Tier 7

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The archer can never have too many arrows.

Silver seams, mined by both Carthage and Rome in centuries past, were reopened by the Umayyads, who then used the resultant wealth to import well-made weapons and armour from across Europe as well as creating their own. Less is known about Andalusian infantry than their cavalry, save that they represented the bulk of Umayyad armies in the region at a time when their cavalry was considered inferior and insufficient for purpose compared to that of their western European rivals. Although the amount of cavalry fielded increased over time, the numbers remained biased in favour of infantry (and weight of numbers at that) for much of the early Middle Ages. Drawn from the native Andalusian and north African Berber populations, infantry had to be proficient in both melee and skirmishing techniques and carried both axes and bows, so their battlefield role could be changed by the general according to the tactical situation with which they were presented. Despite advances in horse archery elsewhere in the world - and particularly in the east - skirmishing remained primarily an infantry role; horse archers were used, but were not a common sight in western Umayyad armies of the period.

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Ammunition: +25% (faction_to_force_own_unseen)

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