| “ | Elite units that generate gold by killing units and destroying buildings. Strong vs. buildings and infantry. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
Lysander's Raider 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 latter part of the third act. It looks identical to the Mercenary Hoplite.
Ability[]
- Phalanx: It has an aura of radius two tiles which increases the armor of nearby Hoplites, Elite Hoplites, and Mercenary Hoplites by +1 melee and pierce armor.
- Charge attack: It has a +6 charged attack, which it recharges over 30 seconds.
- Raiding: It generates 7, 7, 15, and 6 gold for killing military units, Priestesses, buildings, and civilian units. This can be increased by researching the Military Policy.
Campaign appearances[]
Chronicles: Battle for Greece[]
- Speeches and Spears: Lysander asks Brasidas to employ his Raiders, with which he wants to raid cities of Chalcidice.
- To the Wall!: Lysander's Raiders are available as a bodyguard unit for Lysander that can replace Brasidas' bodyguards, chosen previously. If chosen, they will follow Lysander for the remainder of the campaign (being available in Blood and Gold and The Fall of Athens).
Chronicles: Alexander the Great[]
- Unto the Breach: The Ionian Hoplites provided by Queen Ada are renamed Lysander's Raiders.
Further statistics[]
As Lysander's Raiders are only available to the 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)
|
| Damage resistance |  Krypteia (-33% bonus damage)
|
| Conversion resistance |  Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max) Hemlock (die upon getting converted)
|
 Movement speed
|
 Baggage Carriers (+10%)
|
| Creation speed |  Conscription (+33%)
|
| Aura enhancements | |
|---|---|
 Regeneration
|
 Polemarch (+50 HP/min, requires  Ephorate)
|
 Attack speed
|
Polemarch (+15%)
|
| Movement speed
|
Polemarch (+15%, requires  Morai)
|
Trivia[]
- In the game files, the unit is simply named 'Elite Hoplite', though its unit id is 2349.
- Lysander's Raider is also defined to have a speed charge ability, which does not work in-game. The charged-up speed was supposed to activate when its target is within 2 to 4 tiles, increasing its speed by 20% (to 1.08) in this distance, and dissipating once impact is made.
- Lysander's Raider reuses the model of the Mercenary Hoplite.
Gallery[]
Many views of Lysander's Raider
