| “ | All-purpose unique infantry unit. Strong vs. buildings and infantry. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Ekdromos is an untrainable infantry unit in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. It is available in the Scenario Editor and present in the Battle for Greece campaign, where it is one of the bodyguard units that can be chosen in the second and third acts when playing as the Athenians and Spartans respectively. It is the equivalent of the Sakan Axeman in the first act, although its statistics are slightly different.
Ability[]
- Charge attack: It has +5 charged attack which it recharges over 20 seconds.
Campaign appearances[]
Battle for Greece[]
- The Ionian Revolt: Ekdromoi are deployed in the main Greek town to the south.
- A City Ablaze: Some Ekdromoi are fielded in Aristagoras main camp. A few Ekdromoi are also among troops burning down the Menagerie.
- Earth and Water: Paros has Ekdromoi on its middle island besieged by Artemisia.
- The Battle of Marathon: Ekdromoi are available as a bodyguard unit to Themistocles and will follow him on his campaign if chosen (being available in Raise the Sails, Divine Salamis, Across the Wine-Dark Sea, Wrath of the Regent and The Fruits of Empire). If chosen, further Ekdromoi can be trained at mercenary camps across Attica.
- Within the Long Walls: The northeastern Spartan Camp leader is protected by a retinue of Ekdromoi.
- I am Brasidas: Ekdromoi are available as a bodyguard unit to Brasidas and will follow him on his campaign (being available in Pyres on the Coast and Speeches and Spears). If the Ekdromoi aren't chosen as bodyguards, they will remain as Methone's guards and protect the Fort.
- Speeches and Spears: Acanthus trains Ekdromoi at its Barracks.
- To the Wall!: If chosen as Brasidas' bodyguards, Ekdromoi are renamed as Brasideios and are available as a bodyguard unit to Lysander and will follow him on his campaign if chosen (being available in Blood and Gold and The Fall of Athens). The Athenians have Ekdromoi protecting their northern Fort, blocking the progress of the Syracusan wall.
- Blood and Gold: Ekdromoi are employed by the Milesian Democrats and the Ionian Towns.
- The Fall of Athens: Athens is defended by Ekdromoi.
Further statistics[]
As Ekdromoi are only available to the Athenians and Spartans in the campaign, only technologies that are available to them are shown in the following table:
| Strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Infantry, buildings |
| Weak vs. | Archers |
| Technologies | |
|---|---|
| Attack |  Forging (+1) Iron Casting (+1) Blast Furnace (+2) Arson (+2 vs standard buildings)
|
| Armor |  Scale Mail Armor (+1/+1) Chain Mail Armor (+1/+1) Plate Mail Armor (+1/+2)
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| Damage resistance |  Krypteia (-33% bonus damage, Spartans only)
|
| Conversion resistance |  Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max) Hemlock (die upon getting converted)
|
 Movement speed
|
 Baggage Carriers (+10%)
|
| Creation speed |  Conscription (+33%) Military Policy (+15%, Athenians only)
|
| Ability | Military Policy (gain 3 gold per unit killed, Athenians only)
|
| Aura enhancements | |
|---|---|
 Regeneration
|
 Polemarch (+50 HP/min, requires  Ephorate, Spartans only)
|
| Attack |  Strategos (+1, +2 with Taxiarchs, Athenians only)
|
 Attack speed
|
Polemarch (+15%, Spartans only)
|
| Movement speed
|
Polemarch (+15%, requires  Morai, Spartans only)
|
Trivia[]
- It has the ability to generate gold by attacking buildings (other than Farms and walls), depending on the value of resource 509. It generates 1 gold per second per amount of resource 509.
- Ekdromoi were ancient Greek infantry in the Peloponnesian wars who were lightly armored and specialized in fighting out of formation, often being used to flank and break apart enemy Hoplite phalanx formations, or to counter the enemy's own irregular infantry and ranged skirmishers.
- Despite being described as a "unique infantry unit", it does not have the unique unit armor class, unlike the Cretan Archer (another bodyguard unit), but similar to the Greek Noble Cavalry.
Gallery[]
Many views of the Ekdromos
