Plumbata thrower (regional unit)
New regional unit for the Byzantines and the Romans
Plumbata were lead-weighted darts carried by infantrymen used by the late romans and the early byzantines. I think he can make a good regional unit shared by the civilization, better than make the legionary a regional unit because the byzantine didn’t use legionary after the 6 th century. The time of the migration period DLC is good to introduce this unit in the game.
In game he is basically a footed arambai. Unique roman and byzantine technologies apply to him. Roman plumbata thrower train faster and have a charge attack. Centurion aura apply to the plumbata thrower increasing their movement speed and attack speed. Byzantine plumbata thrower throw incendiary grenade who create a small patch of fire who deal damage.
Byzantines UT : Greek Fire : Plumbata are now equipped with a grenade filled with greek fire
On impact, in addition of the normal damage, its projectiles create a patch of fire that lasts for 8 seconds, dealing 2 damage per second to any enemy unit and 4 damage per second to any enemy building in a 0.65 tile radius.
It’s the same effect than the Mounted Trebuchet.
(Other effects of the technology still apply : Gives Fire Ships +1 range; Dromons +0.2 blast radius; Bombard Towers +0.5 blast radius [25% effect without friendly fire damage])
Romans UT : Comitatenses : Plumbata thrower train 50% faster and receive +5 charge attack over 20 seconds.
(Apply to the Plumbata in addition of the Militia-line, Knight-line, and Centurions)
Centurions : The aura of centurion apply to the plumbata in addition of the militia line. (Increasing their movement speed and attack speed)
Plumbata thrower
Anti infrantry archer
Strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs. Infantry, units in dense formation
Weak vs. Cavalry, ranged unit
Technologies : Archer armor (Forge) Chemistry, Ballistics, Devotion Faith, Conscription
Available at Castle age in Archery range
Cost : 40 Food, 30 Gold
HP : 35
Pierce attack : 10
Attack bonus : +2 vs infantry, +4 vs Ram
Reload time : 2
Range : 5
Accuracy : 30%
Projectile speed : 7
Melee armor : 0
Pierce armor : 1
Armor class : Archer
Speed : 0.96
Line of Sight : 6
Ability : Missed projectiles deal 100% damage too
For the visual of the unit : a late roman soldier like the legionary but without armor only a shirt, an helmet and a shield with the symbol Chi Rho like the Centurion shield. It’s possible to make this unit with the model of the legionary removing the sword, the armor and putting a shirt instead, and putting the dart of the arambai and the shield of the centurion.
Heavy plumbata thrower
Anti infrantry archer
Available at Imperial age in Archery range
Upgrade cost : 300 Wood, 300 Gold
Upgrade time : 50 seconds
Cost : 40 Food, 30 Gold
HP : 40
Pierce attack : 12
Attack bonus : +2 vs infantry, +4 vs Ram
Reload time : 2
Range : 5
Accuracy : 40%
Projectile speed : 7
Melee armor : 1
Pierce armor : 2
Armor class : Archer
Speed : 0.96
Line of Sight : 6
Ability : Missed projectiles deal 100% damage too
For the visual of the unit : the same as precedent but with a scale mail armor like the legionary and the shield with the symbol Chi Rho like the Centurion shield. It’s possible to make this unit with the model of the legionary removing the sword and putting the dart of the arambai and the shield of the centurion.
For the post of the Angon thrower the link to the images are dead here the correct links : Invasiones bárbaras en el siglo III - Arre caballo!
For the Angon thrower see :
Guerrero alamán siglo III-IV, al comienzo de le emigraciones germánicas
For the Elite angon thrower see (the warrior on the right) :
Guerreros alamanes siglo IV-V, a la izquierda jinete, a la derecha infante. Autor Igor Dzis.