Asiatikoi Hippeis (Eastern Medium Cavalry)

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Asiatikoi Hippeis (Medium Eastern Cavalry)
Asiatikoi Hippeis (Medium Eastern Cavalry)
Primary Weapon	Type: Spear Attack: 8 Charge: 27 Lethality: 0.15
Secondary Weapon	Type: Axe Attack: 7 Charge: 15 Lethality: 0.165 Attributes: Armour Piercing
Defence	Armour: 8 Shield: 2 Skill: 8
Recruitment	Soldiers: 25 Cost: 2176 Upkeep: 544 Turns: 1
Mental	Morale: 10 Discipline: impetuous Training: trained
Other	Hit Points: 1 Mass: 1 Attributes: Can board ships, Can hide in forest, Mercenary, Very Hardy Formation: square Side/Back spacing: 1.5/4 Mount effects: chariot +1 Ownership: Aedui, Arche Seleukeia, Arverni, As'Sab'yn wal'Jau, Baktria, Casse, Epeiros, Getai, Hayasdan, Iberia, Koinon Hellenon, Makedonia, Pahlav, Pontos, Ptolemaioi, Safot Softim biKarthadast, Saka, Sauromatae, Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs, Swebozez, Eleutheroi

Eranag Aswar (Iranian Medium Cavalry)
Eranag Aswar (Iranian Medium Cavalry)
Primary Weapon	Type: spear Attack: 8 Charge: 11 Lethality: 1
Secondary Weapon	Type: axe Attack: 5 Charge: 2 Lethality: 1 Attributes: armor piercing
Defence	Armour: 5 Shield: 0 Skill: 6
Recruitment	Soldiers: 40 Cost: 1657 Upkeep: 414 Turns: 1
Mental	Morale: 6 Discipline: normal Training: highly trained
Other	Hit Points: 1 Mass: 1 Attributes: Can board ships, Can hide in forests Formation: square Side/Back spacing: 3.7/3.7 Mount effects: elephant -3 Ownership: Arche Seleukeia, Baktria, Hayasdan, Pahlava, Pontos

These medium cavalry represent a versatile task-force well able to perform a wide range of roles in battle.

Description

These medium cavalry represent a versatile task-force well able to perform a wide range of roles in battle. They are excellent screeners well-suited to guard the flanks of a battle-line, well able to cut lighty armed horsemen to ribbons, as well as their qualities in pursuit. Such qualities would make them a worthwhile addition to any commander. They are armed with a thrusting spear, which they bear in an overhanded manner, and a vicious axe with a back-spike allowing them several advantages in melee. As such they are also suited for flanking and supportive roles. Still however, they are not well-suited to take on heavier cavalry or elite infantry formations, and their loyalty is only marked by the measured weight of gold.

Historically, these horsemen were prevalent around Asia Minor, the Near East, and further eastwards, marking them as an ethnically diverse contingent consisting of "Eastern" peoples, including Medeans, Persians, Albanians, Iberians, Armenians, Cappadocians and Syrians willing to fight for any wealthy master in exchange for whatever that may feed their horses and themselves for a longer term. As such, their equipment and clothing would also have differed, though not always were such horsemen drastically diverse in ethnical disposition. Comparatively they may be seen as a heavier variation of Pantodapoi horsemen.

Usage

Good quality and versatile medium horsemen. Use them against other cavalry to protect your flanks and due to their lethal axes, they are good in melee combat as well as pursuit although they are no match against heavy cavalry. They can be recruited as mercenaries in the far east if the need for good medium cavalry arises.

Asiatikoi Hippeis AOR