Ebdanians Artillery Ship

Battery Currach - Celtic Artillery Crew

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 Artillery Crew)
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 Battery Currach - Celtic Artillery Crew

Main Unit Key att_shp_cel_artillery_dbl_lib_light

Land Unit Key att_mar_cel_celtic_artillery_dbl_crew

Naval Unit Key att_lib_light_dbl_art_cel

Soldiers 56

Category Light Ship

Class Artillery Ship

Custom Battle Cost 375

Recruitment Cost 375

Upkeep Cost 190

Hull Strength 1200

└ Ship att_shp_light_liburnian_artillery

Speed 5

Missile Damage 350

├ Engine att_shp_onager_light

├ Missile Weapon att_shp_onager_light

├ Projectile att_shp_rock_flaming_light

├ Missile Damage 175

├ Missile Ap Damage 175

└ Base Reload Time 51

Accuracy 0

Range 350

Reload 5

Rate of Fire 1

Ammunition 9

Melee Attack 5

Melee Damage 6

├ Melee Weapon att_dagger

├ Melee Base Damage 5

├ Armour-piercing Damage 1

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Attack Against Cavalry 0

├ Attack Against Elephants 0

└ Attack Against Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 1

Melee Defence 1

├ Base Defence 1

├ Shield att_none

└ Shield Defence 0

Armour 3

├ Armour att_cloth

├ Armour Defence 3

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 78

├ Man Entity att_infantry_very_light

├ Man Health 75

└ Bonus Hit Points 3

Morale 34

Abilities

• Barrage
  Loose projectiles more frequently for an extended period of time.

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.

Strengths & Weaknesses

No Strengths and Weaknesses

Recuitment Requirement
Required Technology Cost 94 Upgrade From

Garrison Buildings
x 1	Military Jetties (att_bld_all_resources_port_military_2) Level 2 Military Wharf (att_bld_all_resources_port_military_3) Level 3
x 2	Military Port (att_bld_all_resources_port_military_4) Level 4

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Ebdanians Ebdanian Separatists