Mercenary Thraike Peltasts

Recruitment Cost 360
Upkeep Cost 270
Missile Damage 41
Range 80
Shots Per Minute 8
Ammunition 7
Melee Attack 28
Weapon Damage 35
Charge Bonus 12
Melee Defence 40
Armour 15
Health 55
Base Morale 45
Strengths & Weaknesses
  • Short range
  • Fast rate of fire
  • Very good damage and armour penetration
  • Large shield
  • Very weak in melee
  • Poor morale
Description

There were some forty tribes of Thracians who shared a common language and culture, inhabiting a vast area north of the Greek city-states. They were seen as war-loving, rebellious, rambunctious, bad enemies, and good allies in a fight. Many Greeks dreaded a time when they would be united under a single leader and sweep southwards. Such a turn of events never happened, but Thracians could be found across much of the Greek and Persian world fighting as mercenaries; they often specialised as skirmishers and light troops. At the Battle of Raphia in 217BC there were Thracians in both opposing armies, ready to do bloody work. The forward curving rhomphaia with its razor-sharp blade and long handle could lop off limbs in the hands of a skilled user, and Thracians were certainly skilled. The most famous Thracian 'general' of all never actually fought an action in Thrace or in command of a Thracian army; he was Spartacus, the commander of the last great slave rebellion against Rome in 73-71BC.

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Mytilene Ambrakia Messenia Aigai Kolossai Xanthos Lindos Sestos Kos Ephesos Delphi Phaselis Lamia Karpathos Zakynthos Mantinea Kypsela Pergamon Argos Orestiko Torone Arnisa Korinthos Thasos Oreos Korkyra Mende Rodos Laurion Naupaktos Antigonia Ainos Opos Kythera Ilion Larisa Pherae Kydonia Dodona Abdera Smyrna Khios Anaktorio Myrina Miletos Knidos Athenai Pharsalos Kyzikos Paros Oinoi Knossos Olinthos Krinides Kibyra Kalkis Amphipolis Argos Patrai Perinthos Dion Sardeis Andros Sparta Karystos Elis Melos Gortyna Halikarnassos Naxos Maroneia Olympia Byzantion Pylos Samos Pronnoi Thermon Thebai Elaea