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

Class: heavy · Category: cavalry · Men per unit: 30

The ancient city of Pergamon lay in the South West of a landscape called Mysia, after the Thracian tribe that settled here at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. Bounded by the Hellespont in the North, the Rhyndakos river and the Asiatic Olympos in the East and the Aisepos river in the West (Strab. XII, 4, 4-5, C564), Mysia was a central thoroughfare for traders, messengers, migrants or armies between Europe and Asia. It was inhabited by the Thraco-Phyrgian Mysians, who mainly dwelled in the interior and on the mountains, and by Ionian and Aeolian Greeks who founded cities on the coast (such as Kyzikos) or in its immediate hinterland (such as Pergamon, if it was, indeed, founded by Greeks).

Its secondary attack is the stronger one: 13 against 12.

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	12	13
Charge bonus	31	27
Type	melee · blade	melee · blade
Damage	piercing	slashing

	Primary	Secondary
Total	35	—
Armour	14	—
Defence skill	16	—
Shield	5	—

Hit points	1
Mount	medium horse
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	-3 / -2 / -8 / -2
Charge distance	40
Formations	Square · Wedge

Technical stats

Time between blows (primary / secondary)	2.5 s / 2.5 s
Extra fatigue in hot climates	5
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 2 pools covering 10 regions, at 6,320–7,035 dn to hire and 3–4 experience.

Mercenary pools: Kydonia · Troad Mysia

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

Some pools additionally restrict it to Kydonia.

The 10 regions where this unit appears in a mercenary pool

Ano Troias · Arktonnesos · Chalkedonia · Kaikia · Kianos Kolpos · Kydoniatis · Mysia · Pityoussa · Propontis · Troias