Description
The people of Western Asia are diverse, numerous, and fierce, and have a long tradition in warfare. These slingers are highly skilled missile troops but are at a huge disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, especially against cavalry. They can maintain a sustained and concentrated barrage on enemies and then fall back rapidly to avoid hand-to-hand combat. Slingers carry a shoulder bag with many pieces of lead shot (they can also use stones picked up on the battlefield) and several spare slings including slings of different length for greater or lesser range. Other than a knife and a small shield, they carry no other equipment.
Stats
| Rank in roster | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men per unit | 40 | ███······· 30% |
| Attack | 6 | █········· 3% |
| Charge bonus | 0 | █········· 0% |
| Defence | 11 | █········· 2% |
| · armour | 1 | █········· 0% |
| · defence skill | 8 | █········· 2% |
| · shield | 2 | ███······· 25% |
| Morale | 5 | █········· 4% |
| Discipline | Low | |
| Training | Untrained | |
| Recruitment cost | 937 dn | █········· 3% |
| Upkeep per turn | 343 dn | █········· 11% |
| Turns to recruit | 2 |
Weapons
| Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack | 6 | 2 | Charge bonus | 0 | 0 | Type | missile · archery | melee · simple | Damage | blunt | piercing |
| Projectile | stone | — | Range | 150 | — | Ammunition | 35 | — |
Defence
| Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 11 | — | Armour | 1 | — | Defence skill | 8 | — | Shield | 2 | — |
Condition and terrain
| Hit points | 1 | Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow | 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 | Charge distance | 30 | Formations | Square |
Technical stats
| Time between blows (primary / secondary) | 2.5 s / 2.5 s | Extra fatigue in hot climates | -2 | Collision mass per man (1.0 is normal) | 0.82 | Spacing between men: close / loose | 1.2 × 2.8 m / 2.16 × 5.04 m |
| Default ranks | 5 |
In battle: Can hide in long grass · Very good stamina
Who can recruit it
A core roster unit for 18 factions, each able to raise it anywhere they hold the right building:
Albanians · Arados · Armenia · Armenia Minor · Atropatene · Characene · Colchians · Commagene · Hasmonean Kingdom · Heniochi · Iberians · Mossynoeci · Osrhoene · Parni · Persis · Sidon · Sophene · Tyre
Any faction holding one of the provinces below can field it.
Exactly what a settlement must have, route by route (4)
| Building | Also requires | Building | Also requires | Building | Also requires | Building | Also requires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any settlement | Garrison Building or Tier 1 Military Industrial Complex · Asian area of recruitment · not Caucasian area of recruitment · not Greek area of recruitment · not Galatian area of recruitment · not Phrygian area of recruitment · not Pamphylian area of recruitment · not Cilician area of recruitment · not Cappadocian area of recruitment · Any Government (Dependency, Indirect Rule or Direct Rule) · Tier 2 Colony not built | Indirect Rule | Garrison Building or Tier 1 Military Industrial Complex · Tier 1 Colony | Direct Rule | Garrison Building or Tier 1 Military Industrial Complex · Tier 1 Colony | Homeland | Garrison Building or Tier 1 Military Industrial Complex |
Areas of recruitment
| Zone | Provinces | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian | 111 |