Mercenary Nuragic Runners

Many bronze statues found in Sardinia, as well as the stone giants of Monte Prama, depict ancient warriors carrying large shields and a leather sheath, covering their entire right arm and ending in something resembling a club or similar blunt weapon. Many believe the statues to be Nuragic warriors, descendants of the ancient 'Sea People', a loose confederation of clans who fought the Aegean Greeks and Egypt during the Bronze Age. At the time, chariots were often used in combat, mostly to hold transport archers around the battlefield. The Nuragic warriors' purpose was to defeat these tactics by attacking the chariots with massed archers to pin them down and hold them in place. While immobile, the charioteers were vulnerable to attack by the swift Sardinians, called 'pugilatore' or 'boxers' - the Latin root of the English word 'pugilist', meaning 'fighter'; their large shields enabled them to protect themselves from enemy arrows and knock charioteers from their mounts with their glove-like weapons. The Sardinian tribes maintained this tradition, with boxers being part of Nuragic ritual combat as both a form of religious expression and entertainment.

Unit Name Mercenary Nuragic Runners

Main Unit Key inv_mercenary_nuragic_runners

Land Unit Key inv_mercenary_nuragic_runners

Naval Unit Key pel_transport

Soldiers 160

Category Melee Infantry

Class Melee Infantry

Custom Battle Cost 400

Recruitment Cost 400

Upkeep Cost 300

Melee Attack 20

Weapon Damage 55

├ Melee Weapon rome_iolean_glove

├ Melee Damage Base 40

├ Melee Damage Ap 15

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 0

├ Bonus vs Elephants 0

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 35

Melee Defence 30

├ Base Defence 5

├ Shield oval

└ Shield Defence 25

Armour 35

├ Armour none

├ Armour Defence 0

└ Shield Armour 35

Health 60

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_heavy

├ Man Health 40

└ Bonus Hit Points 20

Base Morale 40

Abilities

No Ability

Attributes

• Guerrilla Deployment
  This unit can deploy outside of the deployment zone.
• Stalk
  This unit can move hidden in any terrain.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

• Good attack
• Average defence
• Average damage but low armour penetration
• Normal morale

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