stJNES9 - Changing Times

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Legion-Phalanx (Entira): History. Recieve the best of both Legion Infantry and the Phalanx Pikemen. Less Pikmen and so less strong against avalry, and espaicaly weakened infront of heavy cavalry, fast artileries and elephants or other massive beasts.


Archer Auxiliaries (Entira): History. As any Archer has bonus in defending high walls and agaisnt Infantry, this guys are also as trained as any infantry to hold much more in battle. Can use fire arrows. A huge weakness to Cavalry (any type) because that they are a little slower than other archers becuase of the armor.

Cavalry Auxiliaries (Entira): History. Strong vs. archers, unraroumered or scattered infantry. Huge weakness to Pikes as it's not very armoured. Also weak against camels and elephants cause horses scare easily from this two animals.


Onager (Entira): History. Good in breaking heavy infantry formations (cause their slow) and in breaking walls and towers. Weak against anything that come near it and fire archers.

"Yellow" Galley (Entira): History. The history of this vassal is from ancient Egypt. This ships were built so the egyptian could move across the Nile and sail fast from North to South Egypt. They are the same as galleys but only 2\3 of the size. They carry less, but unlike Large Galleys they can sail in almost all of the Nile. Their strengh is in the Nile, outside of it they always loose.

Hodinoshone

Mohawk Warrior: The Mohawks have always been the defenders of the Hodinoshone homelands. Are excellent defenders. Prove ineffective when attacking.

Thrace

Avtorian Guard (Thrace): Formed by Terekos as a personal guard and the elite infantry unit. It is disciplinned, armed with broadswords and carries out orders without questions. It, however, is rather vulnerable to archers.

Thessalin Phalanx (Thrace): Thracians are great learners, and managed to copy the best Spartan ideas in this unit. It is, just as a Greek Phalanx, is powerful in defense and cannot be broken by a frontal attack. It is slow, though.

Trojan Longbowmen (Thrace): Half-Greek, half-Hittite inhabitants of Western Anatolia have always been great sharpshooters. In exchange for payment in land after their service, they agreed to fight for Thrace. They are great archers with long range and capable of inflicting large casualties on armored troops. They are vulnerable to cavalry, though.

Thracian Cataphracts (Thrace): Formed by Avtokrator Mierek during the Fez War. They are strong and fast, good in charges. However, they are rather vulnerable to spearmen and archer fire.

Catapult Triremes (Thrace): A recent innovation, it was created for the sole purpose of the war with Sparta. It is a powerful new naval siege weapon. However, it is slow and not very maneuverable.

Yamato


Yamato Samurai (Yamato): The Yamato Samurai are not as heavily armoured as some of their conterparts, but rather are lightly armoured in a combination of Iron platied armor and leather. Their Swords are hand-crafted by the Yamato Blacksmiths, the most skilled in all the world.


Yamato Samurai Spearmen (Yamato): Almost identical to the Yamato Samurai except that they are Spearmen instead of Swordsmen. Their spears are almost 6 feet long, and the Spearmen are skilled at the tactic called the "Spearwall", where a 100 Spearmen can keep a 1000 men at bay.

Yamato Samurai Archer (Yamato): Very lightly armoured except for the standard Samurai Chest plate and helm. These men are good archers and can fire as well as any other men. Basically just Archers with Samurai mentalilty.

Samurai Cavalry (Yamato): Heavily Armoured cavalry used as shock troops. Mobile and heavy hitting, their armour costs so much that there are few actually in service.

Siam

Siamese Knight (Siam): elite swordsmen. Strong when fighting on the ground against other infantry. Weak against archer fire because of light armor.

Kesultanan Melayu Melaka


Malay Warrior (Melaka): Trained under the Kesateria traditions millennia old, Malay Warriors are highly trained infantrymen, strong and disciplined. Malay Warriors are trained to extremely high standards and are top-notch fighters, highly disciplined, especially skilled in jungle warfare and can cover long distances quickly. Being lightly armoured, however, means that Malay Warriors can’t hold their own in frontal fights with heavier armed units.


Hulubalang (Melaka): The advent of the repeating magazine crossbow 50 years ago has meant the development of a new elite fast archer force. Hulubalang, like Malay Warriors can cover long distances quickly and are skilled in jungle warfare, including sharpshooting while the crossbow’s mechanism allows unheard of rates of fire. The repeating crossbow used by Hulubalang, however, has an inferior range to normal crossbows and longbows.


Bajau Horsemen (Melaka): Bajau Horsemen are troops recruited from the plains of South Borneo and Java, where the Bajau minority, a horse-riding minority live. Their strengths lie in being capable of providing massive heavy shock capability with a strong and disciplined charge thanks to their double swords. However, Bajau Horsemen are difficult to recruit as they are taken from Bajau noblemen who provide their own equipment.


Fork Cart (Melaka): The Fork Cart was the answer to the difficulty of moving large catapults in the jungles of Kesultanan Melayu Melaka. There's no chance of missing, no chance of damage to friendly troops and simple enough that it can be constructed on the field as needed. However, Fork Cart has to be adjacent to the enemy walls to do its work.


Fighting Carrack (Melaka): 1,000 years of naval tradition have allowed Melaka to develop one of the best naval units in the world, the Fighting Carrack. The Fighting Carrack, with its elite crew and superior construction is extremely fast, can sail very close to the wind and could defeat most ships on the water easily. However, its construction is such that the Fighting Carrack has a rather deep draft, making it dangerous to sail in uncharted shallow water.

Bactria

Royal Guard (Bactria): With the advent of the Second Sri Lankan War, the Royal Family determined that relying on the nobles for a trained army was foolish. Thus they decided to make a new, disciplined, and hardened, professional army under purely royal control. The Royal Guard is a trained, professional organization, that knows exactly what it is doing on the battlefield. Master swordsmen, quick on the march, and fully able to hold a line or pick up a pike and defend against cavalry if need be.Their main weaknesses, are that they are rather expensive to maintain and difficult to recruit.

Royal Marahattas (Bactria): With the advent of the Second Sri Lankan War, the Royal Family determined that relying on the nobles for a trained army was foolish. Thus they decided to make a new, disciplined, and hardened, professional army under purely royal control. Their main strengths are in their mobility, fearsome charge, and the fact that they can almost ignore sword blows due to their carefully crafted chain mail armor.Their main weaknesses, are that they are rather expensive to maintain and difficult to recruit, and their vulnerability to the front teeth of a phalanx.

Royal Longbows (Bactria): With the advent of the Second Sri Lankan War, the Royal Family determined that relying on the nobles for a trained army was foolish. Thus they decided to make a new, disciplined, and hardened, professional army under purely royal control. Their main strengths include their mobility, and range and power of their bow. They are lightly clad with armor so as not to impede movement. They are relatively cheap since the herding and hunting lifestyle of the middle castes of Bactrian society promote archery. They are extremely weak in hand to hand combat.

War Elephants (Bactria): With the advent of the Second Sri Lankan War, the Royal Family determined that relying on the nobles for a trained army was foolish. Thus they decided to make a new, disciplined, and hardened, professional army under purely royal control. The main strengths of this unit are it’s incredible size, it’s ability to frighten horses with the smell, the sheer intimidation factor, and the incredible charge it packs. It’s weaknesses are numerous, though. If frightened, it will go anywhere to escape, including over it’s own men. They remain relatively few in number compared to any branch, rarely reaching the 100 mark. They are also expensive.

Bactrian Galleys (Bactria): With several disastrous defeats in the Sri Lankan war, the Bactrian navy received a wake up call. They decided to come up with something, anything that would let them fight on equal terms with the Sri Lankans. The new tactics were devious, they would turn to the one advantage Bactria had: land warfare...The new galley is to be reinforced to better withstand ramming and arrow fire. It will also carry a massive walkway on a turntable in the fore with a massive spike. It will draw up close to the enemy ship and lower the walkway rapidly, smashing through the deck of the enemy and securing the walkway. Bactrian Marines, specially adapted for this duty (handpicked for their ability to withstand sea sickness, and with large shield to protect from arrow fire), then board the ship. They kill the crew and decisively eliminate the ship from the battle. To the victor goes the spoils – at the end of the battle, the drifting, crewless triremes are to be collected, then recrewed for use by Bactria. Even if the Sri Lankans win the battle, they will have lost valuable crew in the massacres, who are very difficult to replace, and the ships will have to be towed back to Sri Lanka. The main weaknesses are that they are somewhat slower than the normal trireme, and need frequent resupply due to the large complement of marines. Also the ships are rather vulnerable to storms, though this is SLIGHTLY negated by the stronger hull.

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COMPLETED PROJECTS​

The Bosporus Ports
Thrace, 100 N.A.

The Bosporus Ports have been constructed in the capital city of Thrace, creating a trade center for the great city of wind. Taking advantage of the extensive Aegean trade that has grown since the collapse of the Spartan Empire, nearly seventy-five percent of all eastern Mediterranean trade reaches these distant ports – quite a miraculous accomplishment of the Thracian merchants.


The Iroquois Highway
Hodinoshone, 100 N.A.

A series of paves roads connect to eachother, while connecting some of America's most prominant cities, to form the Iroquois Highway. Each road was constructed by laying stones of relativly the same size, and then cutting them to make them flat and level. The surface is slightly tilted to to let the water run off the stone, as well as the roads are slightly raised above the ground. To counter snow fall and thus the disappearance of the roads, large wooden polls are stuck into the ground along the road to mark it in the deep snow.


Deer Farm Establishment
Chesapeake, 200 N.A.

By now, the domestication of deer is widespread throughout the Chesapeake nation, giving the people a reliable and safe source of food. Huge ranches are usually deep inland, with smaller, more sporadic ranches based near the coast. The rivers are usually the main source of food and water for the deer, and so most of the ranches are near the rivers.


Project Tenshi
Yamato, 200 N.A.

Project Tenshi is complete in Yamato, turning the feeble fishing towns and small wooden huts that once made up Yamato into luxurious towns sprawling of Japanese culture and style. This has created a new sense of nationalism for the Yamato, fueling exploration into the sea and beefing up confidence.

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