Rauxsa-alanna Shock Cavalry

Asya Badarai

Developed from the cavalry skills of their ancestors, the steppe lancers of the Scythian, or Saka, tribes and the Sarmatians were a type of heavy cavalry comparable to their Hellenic counterparts. They wore scale armour to protect themselves and their mounts, and used a long lance known as a kontos. This enabled them to deliver devastating charges in a fashion comparable to the Alexandrian Companion cavalry. The scale armour was made from horn, or later metal, and allowed the wearers to run down their western counterparts. They were still vulnerable to dense pike or spear-armed formations. Archery provided a solution: sustained volleys from skirmishing foot and horse archers were used to thin and spread out the enemy. At the Battle of Carrhae in 53BC, the tightly-packed Roman infantry were forced to spread out by Parthian archers, which enabled their cataphracts to charge and break an overconfident Roman force four times their number.

Unit Name Asya Badarai

Main Unit Key Ste_Saka_Heavy_Cavalry

Land Unit Key Ste_Saka_Heavy_Cavalry

Naval Unit Key barbarian_transport_small

Soldiers 120

Category Cavalry

Class Shock Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 1562

Recruitment Cost 1562

Upkeep Cost 312

Melee Attack 33

Weapon Damage 9

├ Melee Weapon alance2

├ Weapon Damage 9

├ Weapon Deadliness 0

├ Armour Piercing Yes

├ Bonus vs. Cavalry 0

├ Bonus vs. Elephants 0

└ Bonus vs Infantry 2

Charge Bonus 35

Melee Defence 42

├ Base Defence 26

├ Shield none

└ Shield Defence 16

Armour 4

├ Armour carm1

├ Armour Defence 4

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 20

├ Man Entity medium_heavy

├ Man Health 20

├ Bonus Hit Points 0

├ Mount rome_scythian_horse_lance_m

├ Mount Entity rome_horse_medium_shock

└ Mount Health 0

Base Morale 50

Abilities

• Stamina (poor)
  Governs how fast the unit tires and restores fatigue, and is dependent on type of unit, weight and approach to combat.
• Flying Wedge
  The unit assumes a wedge formation that increases charge speed and bonus

Attributes

• Fire Whilst Moving
  This unit can fire when mounted and moving.
• Disciplined
  This unit does not suffer a morale penalty when the general dies. It can also rally after routing more often.
• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Resistant to Cold
  This unit tires less quickly in snow.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

• Average charge
• Low damage but average armour penetration
• Weak in prolonged melee
• Poor morale

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Stables (rom_BARBARIAN_enclosure_minor_stables_3) Level 2 Horse Ranch (rom_BARBARIAN_enclosure_minor_stables_4) Level 3 Stables (rom_BARBARIAN_enclosure_stables_3) Level 2 Horse Ranch (rom_BARBARIAN_enclosure_stables_4) Level 3

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Saka Rauka Saka Nobles Thyssagetae Aorsoi Rauxsa-alanna Rauxsa-alanna Nobles Siraces
Imperator Augustus	Alanna (Imperator Augustus) Aorsoi (Imperator Augustus) Iastae (Imperator Augustus) Iazyges (Imperator Augustus) Rauxsa-alanna (Imperator Augustus) Siraces (Imperator Augustus)