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Description/Introduction

What does this unit counter?

Most sword units in general.

Counters to this unit type

The main units that counters infantry is pikemen, ranged and artillery: they have a bonus against them and are therefore extremly effective in melee against them. They can also form a phalanx which will negate your charge and deal damage to your unit.

A pike phalanx will counter infantry very effectively, in the same way as the hoplite phalanx.


Finally, due to their speed, infantry is vulnerable to missile fire, and especially artillery.

General playstyle and general tips

Those tips can be used when playing every infantry type listed below, but their effectiveness varies according to the type of infantry/faction being used.

Most sword infantry have a high morale flank damage value. Use that to defeat and rout your enemies. They are potent in a melee fight.

Factions

Greece

Units

Tier Unit name Description
N/A N/A N/A

Characteristics

Premium units

Tier Unit name Description
T5 Thureos Swordsmen With thrusting sword and light shields, these soldiers can fight where the hoplites cannot.

Commanders who can play them effectively

Leonidas
Miltiades

Alternative choice:
Alexander the Great

Roman Empire

Units

Tier Unit name Picture Description
T1 Pedites Example A flexible unit that can form a tight, disciplined formation.
T2 Milites Example Resilient, well-trained infantry.
T3 Accensi Example Roman training makes a formidable infantryman out of even the poorest soldier.
T4 Hastati Example A well-qeuipped unit that supplements sword and shield with deadly javelins.
T5 Principes Example Flexible, reliable infantry that can lead the charge or hold the line.
T6 Legonaries Example The men who conquered the known world.
T6 Armoured Legonaries Example Clad in the best Roman steel, these troops make an excepitonal defensive unit.
T7 Centurion Example The iron backbone of the legion.
T7 Veteran Legionaries Example A wall of steel that will hold the line in the face of any foe.
T8 Socii Extraordinarii Example Hand-picked form the best of Rome's Italian allies.
T8 Eagle Cohort Example Legionaries will follow their Eagle into even the most dire of situations.
T9 Evocati Cohort Example Some are happy to trade war for peace - but not these men.
T9 Praetorians Example They will protect their Emperor from anything - when it suits them.
T10 Palatini Example The Palace Guard are the extension of the Emperor's will and the instrument of his power.
T10 Imperial Guard Example These men can make an Emperor - or tear him down.

Characteristics

Well trained, well armoured, with great weapons, these sword units are flexible and reliable tool for a commander.

Premium units

Tier Unit name Picture Description
T3 Ghost of Cannae Example Haunted by the memories of unimaginale bloodshed, the survivors of Canna march implacably toward redemption - or death.
T5 Retentus Example These experienced veterans act as steadying influence on more junoir soldiers.
T6 Murmillo Gladiators Example Thought lighty armoured, these warriors have faced death a hundred times: they are fast, vicious and fearless.
T8 Legio IX Hispana Example The legends surrounding these veteran troops are an inspration to their comrades.

Commanders who can play them effectively

Germanicus
Scipio
Sulla

Alternative choice:
Caesar

Barbarians

Those melee infantry units are light armoured, better used for flanking and in the forest (they get a bonus there).

Sword Infantry

Units
Tier Unit name Picture Description
T1 Tribesmen Example A unit of life-long fighters capabel of a ferocious charge.
T2 Woodmen Example The woodsmen can burste from teh forest in a sudden, surging charge.
T3 Warband Example Oath-bound warriors with a vicious charge.
T4 Cherusci Warband Example The fearsome victors of Teutoburg.
T5 Warriors Example Brutal lives forge brutal fighters.
T6 Proven Warriors Example Veterans of a lifetime of war, clad in the spoils of a hundred battles.
T7 Andartas Swords Example The reason Victory is a woman.
T8 Chosen Swordsmen Example Seasoned veterans wielding a variety of armaments; an inspriation to the tribe.
T9 Neaked Warriors Example What soldier's morale would not quail in the face of such brazen confidence?
T10 Oathsworn Example Bound by unbreakable oaths, these elite, heavy-armed warrios are prepared to fight and for chief and tribe.
Characteristics

Fast and lightly armoured, those aggressive swordsmen have a great flanking damage and mobility, at the cost of armour.

Falxmen

Units
Tier Unit Name Picture Description
T5 Falxmen Example Armed with a terrifying curved blade these warriors can carve through armour and shields.
T6 Proven Falxmen Example These men wield vicious two-handed swords that pierce armour and ignore enemy shields.
T7 Dacian Warriors Example The lands beyond the Danube breed hardy, ferocious warriors.
T8 Cleavers Example Strike with the force of the thunderbolt.
T9 Dacian Chosen Example The enemy will fall like wheat before the scythe.
T10 Decebalus Gaurd Example Decebalus stood firm in the face of tyranny - these men will follow his example.
Characteristics

Falxmen are an aggressive and mobile shock infantry unit that is very effective against armour. They, however, have no shield, which makes them vulnerable to missile fire.

They ignore enemy shield defence.

Premium units

Tier Unit name Picture Description
T4 Bloodsworn Example With their blood-oaths driving them these men will charge with incredible ferocity.
T5 Bastarnae Falxmen Example Armed with the brutal two-handed falx, these warriors will carve through armour, shield and flesh wiht practiced ease.
T6 Harii Painted Warrios Example The shadow-touched forests of Germanina hide beings far more terrifying than boars and bears.
T7 Druids Example Cultural and religious leaders of the Celts, the Druids combine the martial aptitiude of their people with the authority to encoughrage and support there allies.
T8 Berserkers Example Ferocious warriors of legendary aggression who will throw themselves against the enemy again and again.

Commanders who can play them effectively

Arminius
Vercingetorix

Alternative choice:
Boudica

Carthage

Units

Tier Unit name Picture Description
T4 Lybyan Recruits Example Cheap and effective Libyan merenaries, paid to hold a sword and follow orders.
T5 Punic Mercenaries Example Ruthless sell-swords from across North Africa.
T6 Iberian Rebels Example Vicious tribsmen ready to bear a grudge.
T7 Libyan Infantry Example Stand still too long and they will roll right over you.
T8 Insubres Swordsmen Example Roman-hating swordsmen who make a formidable and uppredictable foe.
T9 Samnite Warriors Example Rome's own 'bogey men', out to cause trouble.
T10 Campaign Elites Example You are in the presence of legendary victors.

Characteristics

Carthaginian swords are very different from one tier to an other : overall, they are flexible, with a decent armour, and faster than their Roman counterparts.

Premium units

Tier Unit name Picture Description
T3 Carthaginian Marines Example Carthaginian marines swept the enemy decks with a vicous missile fire before leaping into the fray.
T6 Mercenary Scutarii Example Armed with heavy shields, these men are tough, well-trained and dangerous.
T8 Hamilcar's Veterans Example Years of gruelling warfare have forged these men into a deadly reflection of their iron-willed commander.

Commanders who can play them effectively

Hannibal

Alternative choices:
Hasdrubal

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