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Mercenary. Hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building.

Class: light · Category: cavalry · Men per unit: 32

Armenian cavalry are excellent horsemen, best suited to charging into and breaking through enemy formations. They are not as headstrong as other elite heavy cavalry and will not charge without orders - war is a serious business that has little room for vainglorious folly. They wear heavy scale armour and carry deadly Scythian Sagaris axes for use in close combat once the initial charge is over and momentum has been lost. While not in quite the same class as the super-heavy cataphracts of later periods, these men are a powerful force. They should not, however, be expected to charge into prepared spearmen.

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	11	10
Charge bonus	28	28
Type	melee · blade	melee · blade
Damage	piercing	slashing
Properties	—	Armour-piercing (counts only half the target's armour)

	Primary	Secondary
Total	25	—
Armour	2	—
Defence skill	20	—
Shield	3	—

Hit points	1
Mount	medium horse
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	-2 / 0 / -8 / 0
Charge distance	40
Formations	Square · Wedge

Technical stats

Time between blows (primary / secondary)	2.5 s / 2.5 s
Extra fatigue in hot climates	-2
Spacing between men: close / loose	2 × 4.8 m / 3 × 7.2 m
Default ranks	5

In battle: Good stamina

Mercenaries are hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building. This unit is offered by 1 pool covering 13 regions, at 4,618 dn to hire and 2 experience.

Mercenary pool: Armenia

At least one of those pools sells to any faction that has an army in range, with no faction restriction.

The 13 regions where this unit appears in a mercenary pool

Akilisene · Ano Araxes · Ano Euphrates · Basoropeda · Boreia Lychnitis · Hesperos Sophene · Karanitis · Lychnitis · Megale Armenia · Mikra Armenia · Sakasene · Sophene · Taronitis