Hippeis Tarantinoi (Tarantine Elite Cavalry)

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Hippeis Tarantinoi (Tarantine Elite Cavalry)
Hippeis Tarantinoi (Tarantine Elite Cavalry)
Primary Weapon	Type: spear Attack: 5 Charge: 15 Lethality: 1 Range: 57.8 Ammo: 8 Attributes: Thrown missile
Secondary Weapon	Type: sword Attack: 9 Charge: 15 Lethality: 0.11 Attributes: Armour Piercing
Defence	Armour: 10 Shield: 2 Skill: 9
Recruitment	Soldiers: 25 Cost: 3016 Upkeep: 754 Turns: 1
Mental	Morale: 13 Discipline: disciplined Training: highly_trained
Other	Hit Points: 1 Mass: 1 Attributes: Can board ships, Improved hiding in forest, Can form cantabrian circle, Hardy, Mercenary Formation: square Side/Back spacing: 2/4 Mount effects: elephant +1, chariot +2 Ownership: Epeiros, Koinon Hellenon, Eleutheroi

Tarantinoi Hippeis (Tarentine Cavalry)
Tarantinoi Hippeis (Tarentine Cavalry)
Primary Weapon	Type: javelin Attack: 16 Charge: 0 Lethality: 1 Range: 65 Ammo: 6 Attributes: thrown missile
Secondary Weapon	Type: sword Attack: 7 Charge: 4 Lethality: 1 Attributes: Armor piercing
Defence	Armour: 4 Shield: 2 Skill: 9
Recruitment	Soldiers: 40 Cost: 2063 Upkeep: 516 Turns: 1
Mental	Morale: 4 Discipline: disciplined Training: highly trained
Other	Hit Points: 1 Mass: 1 Attributes: Can board ships, Can hide in forests, Hardy, Can perform cantabarian circle Formation: square Side/Back spacing: 1.8/3.7 Ownership: Makedonia, Epeiros, Koinion Hellenon, Romani

EB1:Hippeis Tarantinoi are the elite cavalry of Taras. These men can be relied upon in any situation to perform as missile cavalry or as melee troops.

EB2: The Hippeis Tarantinoi represent somewhat of an anomaly in Hellenic military traditions: an effective cavalry force, which can skirmish with considerable skill. They are proficient horsemen and carry a modest amount of protective gear, but they are not suited for prolonged close combat.

Description

Hippeis Tarantinoi are a superb elite cavalry that long ago made their home city of Taras, on the southern coast of Italia, famous for its own modest equestrian tradition. They wear light, high quality linen armor and charge into combat with a curved kopis blade and several javelins to weaken enemies for their charge or sustained melee fighting. In appearance and style they are a distinct, traditional Hellenic light cavalry, but fight with far more skill then their less recognizable predecessors from Hellas itself. As a force, they can be relied upon in any situation to perform as missile cavalry or as melee troops, providing that they do not get bogged down in the thick of battle.

Historically, the Hippeis Tarantinoi were the elite cavalry force of Taras, an old foundation of Sparte on the southern coast of Italia. They were fairly unique among the various cavalries produced in the Hellenic tradition, as outside of the successors of Megas Alexandros, most such states were never recognized for the maintainance of an effective cavalry force - outside of Thessalonika. With them to form an effective compliment to their less impressive citizen infantry, Taras and the cities and Hellenes under its authority were able to hold the Leukanoi and Bruttiai at bay for many years, and were eventually used to some effect in the Epeirote army fashioned by Pyyrhos.

Usage

The Hippeis Tarantinoi are excellent skirmisher cavalry, armed with lots of javelins and having a high range to pepper enemies making it easy for them to avoid danger.

Due to being well-armored and well-armed for skirmisher cavalry, they are able to defeat and pursue missile units and defeat light cavalry but they cannot defeat medium or heavy cavalry by themselves.

Hippeis Tarantinoi AOR