Mercenary Peltast and Rhodian Slinger can attack at close range, their descriptions say otherwise

Grandy02 · February 28, 2026, 9:54am

GAME INFORMATION

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GAME BUILD #: 169652
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Mercenary Peltasts and Rhodian Slingers are units available in the Scenario Editor. According to their descriptions, they “cannot attack at close range”. Contrary to this, they have no minimum range and thus can attack at close range.

The same goes for the similar units Alexander’s Peltast and Alexander’s Slinger, which appear in the Alexander campaign.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

Open the Scenario Editor and place a Mercenary Peltast and a Rhodian Slinger for Player 1 in the Scenario Editor. Place something they can attack (e.g. the Gaia-only unit Dummy Target) next to them, no empty tiles between attacker and attacked unit.
Test the scenario and let both units attack. It can be seen that the Peltast and Slinger are unaffected by minimum range. Select one and read the description by hovering over its icon (extended tooltips have to be enabled). It is claimed that it cannot attack at close range.

EXPECTED RESULT

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If the the units are intended to have minimum range, they should have it. Otherwise, the descriptions have to be corrected.

IMAGE

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Description of the Mercenary Peltast implies minimum range, which it doesn’t have:

The same goes for the Rhodian Slinger:

The claim “cannot attack at close range” is also part of Alexander’s Peltast and Alexander’s Slinger’s descriptions.

However, all four units are able to attack at close range:

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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