Mercenary Venedic Infantry
Mercenary. Hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building.
Class: spearmen · Category: infantry · Men per unit: 60
Description
When and where the first Slavs emerged, remains a controversial and uncertain topic. A common theory is that they emerged somewhere around the Pripet Marshes – near Chernobyl – and for many centuries coexisted with Germanics, Sarmatians and their Baltic cousins; but occupying ecological niches spurned by those others, such as mountains, marshes and deep forests. Those circumstances would explain why the Slavs went unnoticed by Greco-Roman authors until the sixth century AD. Of course, tribes that would later be identified as Slavic, were known even earlier: Tacitus' recorded the Venedi already in AD 98, but rather typically he ended up classifying them as Germanic. After all, no Slavic category existed yet, and they could not have been Sarmatian, he argued, given that they fought on foot and carried shields.
Stats
| Rank in roster | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men per unit | 60 | █████████· 87% |
| Attack | 5 | █········· 0% |
| Charge bonus | 4 | ██········ 21% |
| Defence | 31 | █████····· 46% |
| · armour | 3 | ██········ 21% |
| · defence skill | 23 | ███████··· 65% |
| · shield | 5 | ██████···· 57% |
| Morale | 7 | █········· 10% |
| Discipline | Low | |
| Training | Untrained | |
| Upkeep per turn | 531 dn | ██········ 24% |
Weapons
| Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack | 5 | — | Charge bonus | 4 | — | Type | melee · blade | — | Damage | piercing | — |
| Properties | Light spear (braced against cavalry charges from the front) · +8 attack against cavalry | — |
Defence
| Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 31 | — | Armour | 3 | — | Defence skill | 23 | — | Shield | 5 | — |
Condition and terrain
| Hit points | 1 | Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow | 7 / 0 / 6 / 0 | Charge distance | 30 | Formations | Horde |
Technical stats
| Time between blows (primary / secondary) | 2.5 s / — | Extra fatigue in hot climates | 0 | Collision mass per man (1.0 is normal) | 0.94 | Spacing between men: close / loose | 1.1 × 1.3 m / 2.2 × 2.6 m |
| Default ranks | 5 |
In battle: Can hide in long grass · Very good stamina
Where to hire it
Mercenaries are hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building. This unit is offered by 1 pool covering 3 regions, at 3,376 dn to hire and 0 experience.
Mercenary pool: Balto-Slavic
At least one of those pools sells to any faction that has an army in range, with no faction restriction.