Pirate Chieftain

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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, quot. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

In game[edit | edit source]

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Pirate Chieftain — Vital statistics
Warriors

Cheap but weak spear infantry. Very easy to amass, but very vulnerable to missile weapons.

Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Movement
speed
  • Non-Commissioned Officers Strategy
6.7s
(100t)
215 4 22 2.2s
(32t)
17
Cost Created from Armour Weapon range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop
Wealth: 160
Food: 5;
Metal: 2
1 Whall.png 4 Melee
  • Attack bonus versus cavalry
  • Defensive penalty versus ranged units
  • Small attack penalty versus buildings.
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Overall strategy[edit | edit source]

He may be only just one guy, but the Pirate Chieftain is capable of defeating non-modern heavy units in battle, whilst being armoured himself. His only problem is that he tends to have low morale -- so using any unit that can bribe other units -- Spies and Priests -- can be quite useful.

Nevertheless, being a spear unit WITH assault capabilities make Pirate Chieftains highly useful for raiding enemy towns and suppressing enemy cavalry and fortifications. Pirate Chieftains are thus a viable military asset for any player seeking to engage an enemy with both good melee cavalry, such as the Iranians or Lydians owing to their ability to quickly nullify any resistance proffered by enemy horse units.

See also[edit | edit source]

History[edit | edit source]

The term "Sea Peoples" is a modern name given to various seaborne and land invaders in a loose confederation of clans who troubled the lands of the Near East and Egypt during the final period of the Bronze Age. Who these people were and were they come from, no one knows for certain, although a considerable Aegean presence has been argued in the multiethnic coalitions of the Sea Peoples.

Most of what we know comes from Egyptian sources, which provide the most details regarding the Sea Peoples and their multiethnic background, but there have been other references excavated from Hittite sites. We know that the Sea Peoples had a relationship with both the Egyptians and the Hittites, and that many of the Sea Peoples served the same primarily as mercenaries. Of these, only the Sherden and the Peleset have had their details survive the test of time to fall into our hands; the provenance of most other so-called "Sea Peoples" remaining obscure to us until this very day.

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