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

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

The term Cataphract comes from the Greek, and it means enclosed from all sides. These men and their horses are a perfect example of it. Covered from tail to head with scale, their horses can smash right through an enemy line with few problems. The riders themselves have little to fear, their scale armour protect most of their body, in exception to the legs because it is impossible to lead a horse when the lower half of the body is rigid. When charging, the cataphracts used their six-foot long lance, the kontos, with both hands, resulting in a dreadful chock for the soldiers skewered.

Its secondary attack is the stronger one: 17 against 15.

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	15	17
Charge bonus	31	28
Type	melee · blade	melee · blade
Damage	piercing	slashing

	Primary	Secondary
Total	34	—
Armour	16	—
Defence skill	18	—
Shield	0	—

Hit points	1
Mount	generals horse
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	-4 / -1 / -8 / -1
Charge distance	40
Formations	Square · Wedge

Technical stats

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

In battle: Good stamina · Powerful charge

Mercenaries are hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building. This unit is offered by 1 pool covering 2 regions, at 9,054 dn to hire and 3 experience.

Mercenary pool: Albania

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

The 2 regions where this unit appears in a mercenary pool

Albania · Anatolike Albania