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Class: spearmen · Category: infantry · Men per unit: 20

When and where the first Slavs emerged, remains a controversial and uncertain topic. A common theory is that they emerged somewhere around the Pripet Marshes – near Chernobyl – and for many centuries coexisted with Germanics, Sarmatians and their Baltic cousins; but occupying ecological niches spurned by those others, such as mountains, marshes and deep forests. Those circumstances would explain why the Slavs went unnoticed by Greco-Roman authors until the sixth century AD. Of course, tribes that would later be identified as Slavic, were known even earlier: Tacitus' recorded the Venedi already in AD 98, but rather typically he ended up classifying them as Germanic. After all, no Slavic category existed yet, and he argued they could not have been Sarmatian, given that they fought on foot and carried shields.

	Primary	Secondary
Attack	16	—
Charge bonus	23	—
Type	melee · blade	—
Damage	piercing	—
Properties	Light spear (braced against cavalry charges from the front) · +8 attack against cavalry	—

	Primary	Secondary
Total	44	—
Armour	3	—
Defence skill	36	—
Shield	5	—

Hit points	1
Ground: scrub / sand / forest / snow	7 / 0 / 6 / 0
Charge distance	30
Formations	Horde

Technical stats

Time between blows (primary / secondary)	2.5 s / —
Extra fatigue in hot climates	0
Collision mass per man (1.0 is normal)	0.94
Spacing between men: close / loose	1.1 × 1.3 m / 2.2 × 2.6 m
Default ranks	5

In battle: Can hide in long grass · A unit suitable for a general · Very good stamina

This unit cannot be recruited from any building.