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Artillery Penteres - Greek Onager (Ship)

With deck-mounted artillery pieces, these ships can rain down destruction on the enemy.

The crashing arrival of a large rock does much to humble arrogant foes.

The 'five', called a quinquereme in Latin and a penteres in Greek, was a ship first used by the Syracusans against the Carthaginians sometime around 398BC. Like other polyremes, a term meaning many-oared, the chances were that it did not have five banks of oars but that the word 'oar' was used to mean 'rower'. In such a case, the arrangement of rowers would be two-two-one going up from the waterline. It makes sense to keep as much weight as possible low in the vessel to help its stability; a high centre of gravity makes any ship liable to capsize if struck from the side. The quinquereme, then, would be a formidable vessel both in terms of appearance and combat value. With a large fighting contingent aboard and plenty of deck space, this heavy vessel could cope with most enemies and threats.

(Greek Onager (Ship))
Named after the wild ass with a dangerous kick, the onager catapult had a mighty kick all of its own, as crews quickly discovered. Although not accurate, it could hurl extremely heavy missiles over significant distances. Its throwing arm was pushed through a twisted bundle of animal sinew, held in a solid wooden frame. Pulled back, the tension in the sinew held an incredible amount of power until the arm snapped forwards and the deadly cargo was launched. The arm smacked into the frame, and it was this impact on every shot that made the entire machine lurch about unpredictably. An area-attack weapon, the onager was best suited to siege work, but it could be fired against tightly packed units of troops as well. The missiles launched could be as varied as rocks, clay pots filled with incendiary mixtures, and even dead bodies to spread disease and despair. Severed heads were gruesomely fired into besieged towns from time to time, as a warning of what was to come. Easily constructed from timber, the onager was used throughout the ancient world.

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Artillery Penteres - Greek Onager (Ship)

Unit Name

Artillery Penteres - Greek Onager (Ship)

Main Unit Key

Gre_Onager_Five

Land Unit Key

Gre_Onager_Shp

Naval Unit Key

greek_onager_five

Soldiers

40

Category

Medium Ship

Class

Artillery Ship

Custom Battle Cost

760

Recruitment Cost

760

Upkeep Cost

152

Ship Health

1020

└ Ship

greek_five_art

Ship Speed

5

Missile Damage

200

├ Engine

onager_ship

├ Missile Weapon

rome_onager_shp

├ Projectile

shp_rock_flammable

├ Missile Damage

130

├ Missile Ap Damage

70

└ Base Reload Time

27

Accuracy

40

Range

350

Reload

4

Shots Per Minute

2

Ammunition

1

Melee Attack

9

Weapon Damage

24

├ Melee Weapon

rome_shortsword

├ Melee Damage Base

20

├ Melee Damage Ap

4

├ Armour Piercing

No

├ Bonus vs. Large

0

├ Bonus vs Elephants

0

└ Bonus vs Infantry

0

Charge Bonus

6

Melee Defence

14

├ Base Defence

14

├ Shield

none

└ Shield Defence

0

Armour

10

├ Armour

cloth

├ Armour Defence

10

└ Shield Armour

0

Health

45

├ Man Entity

rome_infantry_medium

├ Man Health

40

└ Bonus Hit Points

5

Base Morale

40

Abilities

Artillery Penteres
  • Row Hard 20
    Increases speed for 20 strokes.
    Ship speed

Attributes

No Attribute

Strengths & Weaknesses

Artillery Penteres
  • Good hull strength
  • Skeleton crew
  • Average speed
  • Average ramming
  • Abysmal boarding
  • Exceptional missile combat
Greek Onager (Ship)
  • Long range
  • High damage with its different rounds
  • Hard to destroy
  • Inaccurate
  • Average rate of fire
Requires Buildings
Artillery Penteres - Greek Onager (Ship) Lv. 0 Military Wharf
Military Wharf
(greek_port_military_2)
Level 1
Drydock
Drydock
(greek_port_military_3)
Level 2
Drydock
Drydock
(greek_port_military_3)
Level 2
Military Port
Military Port
(greek_port_military_4)
Level 3