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[Phantom]

SON OF ZE BIIIITCH! DAMN MAGIC!

[Taricus]

 

I'm going to never let phantom down off it.

[Phantom]

Freakin' Magic Hippies.

[Terenos]

..Am I the only one who finds that to be a little mean? And we dont even know what it is!

[Taricus]

It doesn't affect us so it's good!

[Terenos]

So true!
I mean..Our condolences on whatever occurs to you Phantom..

[Phantom]

At least I have one thing, peace of conscience. I did not raise the dead or bended people's minds, or give away parts of my own culture as an end.

[Iituem]

Oh, it's far worse than that.

It's an upstart mercenary breaking your strict monopoly on cavalry.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Oh snap.
Phantom just got burned.

Buurrrrrnnned~

[Iituem]

I kind of had this guy planned from the start, it wasn't a deliberate snub to Phantom.  I also wanted to take the opportunity to introduce the various flavours of cavalry units that are up for research (as an example - others might think of different types) and the first real anti-cav unit, pikemen.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Aren't spearmen already an Anti-cav unit in RL?

Edit: Also Iituem, can we possibly gain money through disbanding units?

[Taricus]

A more effective version of them. I'd say that a phalanx is even better at it though.

[Iituem]

Right now disbanding buildings doesn't get you money, since most of the cash went into training the units as much as the equipment.  I may change that.  Razing buildings gets you half their construction cost.

Pikemen have specialised pikes ranging between 12-18ft (the awl pike had a length of 18ft, which actually required a degree of extra training to use because of the length), adding to the range benefit that helps them stop cavalry.  This sort of pike requires both hands to grip, whereas a phalanx is limited to 7-9ft length spears because they have to be held one-handed whilst the other grips the large shield.  Hence I opted to look at the phalanx as a heavily armoured, mainly defensive unit in the end.

[Taricus]

Ah, Okay then.

[Terenos]

Well, if Iituem wants to use the name "Spearmen" for a low power anti-cav troop, he could rename militia type units to Militia (patchwork arms, armor, and training). But its working for now, plus are we so inundated with cavalry that we want that sort of a thing?

Hey. would a hero add bonuses to my Phantom Soldiers?