Mercenary Armoured Lancers

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 Mercenary Armoured Lancers

Main Unit Key Mer_Sar_Armour_Lancers

Land Unit Key Mer_Sar_Armour_Lancers

Naval Unit Key persian_transport

Soldiers 90

Category Cavalry

Class Shock Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 450

Recruitment Cost 330

Upkeep Cost 160

Melee Attack 22

Weapon Damage 31

├ Melee Weapon rome_lance

├ Melee Damage Base 16

├ Melee Damage Ap 15

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 10

├ Bonus vs Elephants 12

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 38

Melee Defence 23

├ Base Defence 23

├ Shield none

└ Shield Defence 0

Armour 47

├ Armour leather

├ Armour Defence 47

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 120

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_heavy

├ Man Health 55

├ Bonus Hit Points 15

├ Mount rome_scythian_horse_lance_h

├ Mount Entity rome_horse_heavy_shock

└ Mount Health 50

Base Morale 30

Abilities

• Trample
  Charges are more effective for an extended time.
  Charge bonus
  Exertion: fatigue

Attributes

• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

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

Mercenaries Pool

Mercenaries Pool
No.	Pool	Province	Region	Initial Unit Count	Chance To Replenish	Max Replenish Per Turn	Max Count
1	rom_province_pool_sarmatia	Lugii	Arsenium Carrodunum Grinev Oblin	0	0.75	1	2

Grand Campaign Mercenaries Pool

Mercenaries Pool
No.	Pool	Province	Region	Initial Unit Count	Chance To Replenish	Max Replenish Per Turn	Max Count
2	rom_province_pool_sarmatia	Sarmatia	Mons Regius Galic Tur	0	0.75	1	2

Faction Mercenaries Pool

Mercenaries Pool
No.	Pool	Faction	Initial Unit Count	Chance To Replenish	Max Replenish Per Turn	Max Count
3	rom_province_pool_sarmatia	Aorsoi (Imperator Augustus) Aorsoi	0	0.75	1	2