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Class: missile · Category: infantry · Men per unit: 40

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.

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	6	2
Charge bonus	0	0
Type	missile · archery	melee · simple
Damage	blunt	piercing
Projectile	stone	—
Range	150	—
Ammunition	40	—

	Primary	Secondary
Total	11	—
Armour	1	—
Defence skill	8	—
Shield	2	—

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

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
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

Zone	Provinces
Asian	111