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Peasants	Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Price: 100	Poor morale Can sap	Most basic unit of all. However, it's useful if you want to "transfer population" from one settlement to another (Show me How). Screenshot
Town Watch	Attack: 3 Defense: 7 Price: 150	Poor morale Can Sap	The town watch is very useful outside of the battlefield, when you need someone to guard a town (leave at least 4 regiments of Town Watch, they'll be okay), or on the battlefield, when you need to distract an enemy group, lure them into a trap or something. Screenshot
Auxilia (Spearmen)	Attack: 5 Defense: 16 Price: 430	Bonus vs. cavalry Combat bonus in woods Good stamina Can sap	Personally I don't use spearmen a lot, but in fact, they're tough and awesome against any cavalry whatsoever.
Triarii (Spearmen)	Attack: 7 Defense: 17 Price: 500	Bonus vs. cavalry Good morale Can sap	Very good unit. Spearmen aren't used for fighting infantry, though, but these will stop anything mounted coming your way. Screenshot
Hastati	Attack: 7 (Missile: 11) Defense: 14 Price: 440	Javelins thrown before charge Can sap	The most basic legion-type unit. You'll use this through the first half of the game - main workforce. Screenshot
Principes	Attack: 7 (Missile 11) Defense: 16 Price: 490	Javelins thrown before charge Can sap	Slightly better than the Hastati, I suggest you try to replace the first with these, but only if you got enough money. Screenshot
Early Legionary Cohort	Attack: 9 (Missile 11) Defense: 17 Price: 610	Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Well armoured Good stamina Can sap	After the great War Reform, this is the unit you get in place of your usual Hastati and Principes. Now you'll have to rely on them only to hold off attacks and crush your foes. Screenshot
Legionary Cohort	Attack: 9 (Missile 13) Defense: 22 Price: 740	Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Good stamina	A much better replacement of the Early Legionaries. Screenshot
Early Legionary First Cohort	Attack: 9 (Missile 11) Defense: 17 Price: 1010	Eagle inspires nearby troops Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Good stamina Can sap	An unusually big cohort with a golden eagle. Be careful, losing an Eagle can influence the morale of the troops and you general's attributes. Screenshot
Legionary First Cohort	Attack: 9 (Missile 13) Defense: 22 Price: 1220	Eagle inspires nearby troops Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Good stamina Can sap	A better replacement for the Early one. Screenshot
Praetorian Cohort	Attack: 12 (Missile 16) Defense: 23 Price: 810	Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Good stamina Can sap	This is an elite cohort. Definitely a very good unit. Screenshot
Urban Cohort	Attack: 14 (Missile 18) Defense: 24 Price: 860	Can form Testudo Javelins thrown before charge Good morale Good stamina Can sap	Best infantry in the world...of Rome: Total War in any case. With an army of these nothing can defeat you (if you at least know how to control units on the battlefield!). Absolutely amazing, I wonder if they aren't disguised cyborgs or something. Screenshot
Samnite Gladiators	Attack: 14 Defense: 14 (Hit Points 2) Price: 720	Excellent morale May charge without orders Very good stamina Can sap	Elite unit. I don't really know what's the use of it. Maybe fighting against elephants - look at their morale, they definitely aren't going to run anywhere. Screenshot
Arcani	Attack: 12 Defense: 15 (Hit points 2) Price: 900	Can hide anywhere God morale Very good stamina Fast moving	Very interesting unit, used, I suppose, for creating diversions in the enemy rear. Or silently killing off pesky units such as archers. Screenshot



Equites	Attack: 7 Defense: 12 Price: 390	Can form wedge Good stamina	A pair with the Hastati, something that you will use through the first part of the game. Screenshot
Roman Cavalry	Attack: 7 Defense: 15 Price: 520	Can form wedge Good stamina	This one appears only after the Reform, I believe. Just better defense than the Equites and stamina, too. A replacement. Screenshot
Legionary Cavalry	Attack: 9 Defense: 22 Price: 790	Can form wedge Good morale Powerful charge Good stamina	I wonder why the Legionary Cavalry appears before the legions themselves. Hmm. Anyway, this is a good one, will be the most used heavy cavalry. Screenshot
Praetorian Cavalry	Attack: 12 Defense: 22 Price: 840	Can form wedge Good morale Powerful charge Good stamina	Elite of all Cavalry units, it matches even Cataphracts. Awesome. If you get this together with some Urban Cohorts - you can do whatever you wish. Screenshot
Roman General	Attack: 12 Defense: 22 (Hit Points 2) Price: 1120	Good morale Powerful charge Good stamina	The General's unit, his faithful bodyguards. Screenshot
Cavalry Auxilia	Attack: 7 (Missile 7) Defense: 9 Price: 470	Can form Cantabrian circle Fast moving	Light support cavalry, used to harass the enemy's flanks. Can also fight as Equites, but has poor armor. Screenshot



Roman Archers	Attack: 3 (Missile 7) Defense: 2 Price: 190	Combat bonus in woods Can use flaming missiles Fast moving Can sap	The most basic archers (their stats don't change for all factions). The ones you'll use before the v2 - Archer Auxilia - comes out. Screenshot
Archer Auxilia	Attack: 4 (Missile 9) Defense: 7 Price: 430	Combat bonus in woods Long range missiles Can use flaming missiles Good stamina Fast moving Can sap	A better replacement for the Roman Archers. Screenshot
Velites	Attack: 5 (Missile 7) Defense: 7 Price: 270	Can hide in long grass Bonus vs. elephants and chariots Combat bonus in woods Fast moving Can sap	I don't like this unit. Really, I don't see the point of it except maybe throwing their javelins and getting killed, or as with the Town Watch, luring the enemy somewhere. Screenshot
Light Auxilia	Attack: 5 (Missile 7) Defense: 7 Price: 290	Can hide in long grass Bonus vs. elephants and chariots Combat bonus in woods Good stamina Fast moving Can sap	Mmmmyeah, you might be wondering what's the difference between them and the Velites. Well me too...except maybe good stamina, so they can run faster when getting killed. Hah. Screenshot



Ballistas	Attack: 53 (vs. Buildings 24) Defense: 10 Price: 320	Missiles impale several men Long range missiles Can't hide	Good low-priced and powerful siege unit. Can help your infantry in the field or smash a wall (takes quite long though). Screenshot
Repeating Ballistas	Attack: 33 Defense: 10 Price: 460	Missiles impale several men Long range missiles Ineffective against buildings Can't hide	Purely anti-infantry unit. They shoot faster than the Ballistas, but they all really can shoot only in front of them at a mass of enemy. Ideal for breaking up Roman legions or Barbarian hordes.
Scorpions	Attack: 43 Defense: 10 Price: 380	Missiles impale several men Very long range missiles Ineffective against buildings Can't hide	A unit like the Repeating Ballistas, has better range though and power, too. Screenshot
Onagers	Attack: 53 (vs. Building 70) Defense: 10 Price: 830	Area attack Very long range Can use flaming missiles Can't hide Inaccurate against troops	The last attribute is totally unjust. These machines are priceless whe taking cities because they are able from a safe position to devastate enemy forces which are behind the walls, leading to panic. With luck and skill you can exterminate half the enemy army before going in. Screenshot
Heavy Onagers	Attack: 63 (vs. Buildings 110) Defense: 10 Price: 1050	Very long range Can use flaming missiles Can't hide Inaccurate against troops	Same as for Onagers, only these are even more powerful! Screenshot



Incendiary Pigs	Attack: 7 Defense: 4 Price: 200	Frighten elephants Fast moving	I guess the only thing they're good for is against elephants? Screenshot
Wardogs	Attack: 12 Defense: 3 Price: 570	Frighten nearby enemy Fast moving	Good to create a diversion in the enemy ranks. Screenshot

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