Werryt

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"Like Monthu, god of war, was I made,
With my left hand hurled the dart,
With my right I swung the blade!"
-Poem of Pentaur

In game[edit | edit source]

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Werryt — Vital statistics

Egyptian unique light chariot unit, with a fast, archery-based attack. Very useful against slow-moving targets. Has faster turn speed and faster training time compared to normal Light Chariot.

Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Movement
speed
Level 2: Rank and File Military
13.3s
(200t)
117 10 25 1.3s
(19t)
34
Cost Created from Armour Weapon range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop
Timber: 80;
Wealth.jpg: 60
Wealth.jpg: 1;
Food.jpg: 1
2 Stable.png 1 2–11
  • Attack debuff versus buildings, heavy cavalry.
  • Defence debuff versus long spears, pikes, elephants.
  • Very fast turn speed.
  • Can attack enemies while moving.

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Overall strategy[edit | edit source]

The Egyptian Werryt is a genus of light chariotry which has better turn and build speed, slightly improved mobility, as well as added attack speed. With sufficient resources, an Egyptian player can create hordes of these warriors, which can then be the terror of the early- to mid-game as long as there are no obstacles like Forts, or enemy heavy cavalry, such as Lancers or Steppe Cataphracts. They are still light units, so it is expedient to keep them away from missile weapons, especially enemy Composite Bowmen, wherever you meet them.

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History[edit | edit source]

A chariot is an ancient horse-drawn two-wheeled vehicle used in primarily for war and transport, then later in races and processions. There is much debate on how the chariot first emerged, with people arguing that chariots first emerged along with the wheel in Mesopotamia. Excavation of graves in the ruins of the old Sumerian city of Ur (near Nasiriyah in present-day Iraq) by Wooley in the 1920s revealed that the Sumerians of the early 3rd millenium BCE used large four-wheeled vehicles possibly drawn by donkeys, but these wagons differed greatly from true chariots, which were built for speed, could at best carry only up to three people, and had two wheels instead of four - possibly for reasons of speed and mobility. In contrast, others postulate an origin with Central Asian horse-breeding cultures. Excavations in Russia during the final years of the Cold War revealed that chariots might have been invented at least 2 millenia earlier by the people of the Eurasian steppes, as represented by the Maykop culture in the Caucasus.

Regardless of the chariot's origins, what is most certain is that the proliferation of chariotry took place after 2000 BCE in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Yet equally tenuous too is, at present, how chariots first emerged in Egypt. Previously it was thought that the Semitic Hyksos people introduced the use of chariot cavalry to the Egyptians during their settlement of Lower Egypt around 1700BCE, but some have suggested that the ancient Egyptians had long begun experimenting with chariots well before the arrival of the Hyksos in Egypt. Whatever the case, the Egyptians built upon the original design for the chariot and improved it by making it lighter, changing the location of the chariot's axle so that the driver would stand closer to it and casing parts of the axle with metal in order to decrease the resistance between it and the wooden wheel hub. Weapon tests using an Egyptian chariot a few years ago indicated that this chariot was very mobile, and was an ideal weapons platform especially for the use of javelins and composite bow archery.

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