Lysander's Raider

Lysander's Raider
Unit information
Introduced in	Chronicles: Battle for Greece
Type	Infantry unit
Internal name	Elite Hoplite
Training
Trained at	Fort
Food	70
Gold	40
Training time	21 seconds
Build limit	20
Statistics
Hit points	70
Melee attack	10
Attack bonus	+4 vs Standard Building
Reload time	2
Range	0.3
Melee armor	3
Pierce armor	1
Armor class	Infantry Unique unit
Speed	0.9
Line of Sight	5
Ability	Charges its attack by +6 over 30 seconds Generates gold when killing units and destroying buildings

“	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).

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