Rome (Rise of the Republic) Missile Ship

Missile Trieres - Leves

Of all the warships found in the ancient world, it is the trireme, or trieres, that remains the most famous and recognisable. Nearly all Hollywood 'sword and sandal' movies will include a trireme somewhere. The vessel was entirely designed for war. Its name came from the three rows of oars carried on each side, stacked above each other in staggered columns to give the rowers some room to work. The top row of oars pivoted on a rowlock, or oarlock, mounted on an outrigger projecting from the hull. This allowed the top oars to pitch down at a sharper angle to reach the sea without getting tangled in the lower ones. The trireme was a greyhound of a ship, capable of high-speed dashes with a well-trained crew and, contrary to popular belief, not all rowers were slaves. Aboard Greek vessels they were citizens, and were given respect, not the lash. They were also largely fair-weather ships, and unsuited to rough seas such as the Atlantic; the lowest level of oars were, at most, less than half a metre above the waterline. That, however, did not stop the trireme being a superb weapon against other ships: a high-speed ramming attack could rip a hole in the side of almost any target. The type was also large enough to be used in other ways, which lead to it carrying archers and assorted light artillery pieces.

(Leves)
Under the early Roman army’s Camillan system, if you were poor or low born then you might well have found yourself in battle with little more than a spear in your hand. Typically the poorest members of a Roman Legion, leves were attached to the hastati and faced the full enemy onslaught. They were used as a screen and to skirmish with the enemy’s front line. Un able to afford much armour, the leves used javelins in support of their richer compatriots. Historically, there were 300 leves alongside 900 hastati: 20 leves in front of each of the 60 maniples. They were replaced by velites, who were deployed across the three main lines of a maniple.

Unit Name Missile Trieres - Leves

Main Unit Key inv_rom_raider_ranged_leves

Land Unit Key inv_rom_leves

Naval Unit Key greek_three

Soldiers 80

Category Medium Ship

Class Missile Ship

Custom Battle Cost 350

Recruitment Cost 350

Upkeep Cost 70

Missile Damage 29

├ Missile Weapon rome_wooden_javelin

├ Projectile javelin_wooden

├ Missile Damage 20

├ Missile Ap Damage 9

└ Base Reload Time 10

Accuracy 5

Range 80

Reload 8

Shots Per Minute 7

Ammunition 7

Ship Health 693

└ Ship greek_three

Ship Speed 6

Melee Attack 5

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 3

Melee Defence 15

├ Base Defence 5

├ Shield small_round

└ Shield Defence 10

Armour 15

├ Armour cloth

├ Armour Defence 10

└ Shield Armour 5

Health 45

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_very_light_fast

├ Man Health 40

└ Bonus Hit Points 5

Base Morale 20

Abilities

• Row Hard 10
  Increases speed for 10 strokes.
  Ship speed

Attributes

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

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Poor hull strength
• Light crew
• Fast speed
• Weak ramming
• Poor boarding
• Average missile combat

• Short range
• Fast rate of fire
• Very good damage and armour penetration
• Very weak in melee
• Very poor morale

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Military Wharf (inv_rom_port_military_2) Level 1 Drydock (inv_rom_port_military_3) Level 2 Military Port (inv_rom_port_military_4) Level 3

Garrison Buildings
x 1	Port (inv_rom_port_1) Level 0 Drydock (inv_rom_port_military_3) Level 2
x 2	Civil Port (inv_rom_port_civil_2) Level 1 Civil Docks (inv_rom_port_civil_3) Level 2 Harbour (inv_rom_port_civil_4) Level 3 Military Wharf (inv_rom_port_military_2) Level 1

Faction Availability
Rise of the Republic	Rome (Rise of the Republic) Roman Pretenders (Rise of the Republic) Roman Secessionists (Rise of the Republic)