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

Class: spearmen · Category: infantry · Men per unit: 60

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	12	7
Charge bonus	2	4
Type	thrown · blade	melee · blade
Damage	piercing	piercing
Projectile	javelin	—
Range	50	—
Ammunition	2	—
Properties	Used just before charging into combat	Light spear (braced against cavalry charges from the front) · +8 attack against cavalry

	Primary	Secondary
Total	26	—
Armour	2	—
Defence skill	20	—
Shield	4	—

Hit points	1
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	-1 / 0 / -4 / 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)	0.91
Spacing between men: close / loose	1 × 1.2 m / 2 × 2.4 m
Default ranks	5

In battle: Can sap · Very good stamina

Mercenaries are hired from a regional pool, not recruited from a building. This unit is offered by 1 pool covering 14 regions, at 2,321 dn to hire and 0 experience.

Mercenary pool: Southwest Italy

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

Bruttium · Campania · Chonia · Hirpinia · Kroton · Lokroi Epizephyrioi · Lucania · Lucania Vetus · Parthenope · Pentria-Carricinia · Poseidonia · Rhegion · Samnium · Thourioi