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

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

The Euzonoi are fierce, well-trained missile troops. These men may be lightly armoured skirmishers, but they are well-protected by their helmets and large thureos shields. While they can defend themselves in melee with shorts swords or thrusting spears, their main weapons are their javelins. The ancient Greek javelin consisted of a wooden shaft with a leaf-shaped iron head that was sometimes barbed. Most javelins had a so called ankyle (a cord loop) fixed to their point of balance. Before throwing the javelin, the soldier would place his first two fingers through the loop, which increased the range from about 75 to somewhere between 90 and 100 metres (Spence, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare, p. 186).

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	13	8
Charge bonus	3	3
Type	thrown · archery	melee · blade
Damage	piercing	piercing
Projectile	javelin	—
Range	60	—
Ammunition	7	—
Properties	Thrown	—

	Primary	Secondary
Total	25	—
Armour	3	—
Defence skill	17	—
Shield	5	—

Hit points	1
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	8 / 0 / 8 / 0
Charge distance	30
Formations	Square

Technical stats

Time between blows (primary / secondary)	2.5 s / 2.5 s
Extra fatigue in hot climates	0
Collision mass per man (1.0 is normal)	0.96
Spacing between men: close / loose	1.1 × 2.6 m / 1.98 × 4.68 m
Default ranks	5

In battle: Very good stamina

Mercenaries are hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building. This unit is offered by 2 pools covering 14 regions, at 3,323 dn to hire and 2 experience.

Mercenary pools: Dekapolis · Seleukis

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

The 14 regions where this unit appears in a mercenary pool

Apamene · Belos · Chrysorrhoas · Damashq · Dolicheia · Gadaris · Khalab · Kyrrhestike · Leuke Akte · Peraia · Pieria-Syria · Rabat Xaman · Syria · Trachonitis