Drangiana Fixed Artillery

Greek Polybolos

The polybolos was a repeating bolt thrower developed from the ballista and scorpion. A chain mechanism drew, loaded and released bolts from a gravity-fed magazine as quickly as a handle could be turned. Supposedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria, the polybolos was quite a complex machine: as the operator turned a windlass handle, the bow was tensioned as a launching shuttle pulled back, an arrow dropped into place, and finally a catch was released to fire the machine. The process repeated as long as the operator worked. All he needed was a loader to keep the magazine filled. Efficient and deadly, the polybolos had the greatest rate of fire of all ancient war machines.

Unit Name Greek Polybolos

Main Unit Key Gre_Polybolos

Land Unit Key Gre_Polybolos

Naval Unit Key pel_transport

Soldiers 40

Category Siege Engine

Class Fixed Artillery

Custom Battle Cost 620

Recruitment Cost 620

Upkeep Cost 120

Missile Damage 85

├ Engine polybolos

├ Missile Weapon rome_polybolos

├ Projectile arrow_polybolos

├ Missile Damage 35

├ Missile Ap Damage 50

└ Base Reload Time 5

Accuracy 5

Range 260

Reload 4

Shots Per Minute 13

Ammunition 60

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 35

Abilities

No Ability

Attributes

No Attribute

Strengths & Weaknesses

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

• High damage
• Accurate
• Average range
• Very high rate of fire

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Siege Workshop (east_military_siege_3) Level 2

Faction Availability
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