Like Streltsy and Rekruts, Poruchiks have a 20% penalty to hit points and damage, cost 25% less resources and can be trained in batches of 4 at the Blockhouse. With these penalties, Poruchiks are similar to Pikemen, being slower, have lesser damage multipliers and siege attack, and costing coin instead of wood, but have a stronger hand resistance, base hand damage, and can be massed easily if the player sends the "Dueling School" and "Fencing School" Home City Cards, being trained instantly with Standing Army. They can also get a stronger attack with the "Ransack" and "New Order Regiments" Home City Cards.
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Fealty Aura (passive): This unit gets stronger with more allied units nearby. Gets +0.5% hit points from each infantry unit in a radius of 20 (up to +13%). Requires the "Polk" Home City Card.
Originaly, Poruchiks have 200 hit points, 28 hand damage, 36 siege damage, 12 train and kill bounties, and a 40% hit points and damage penalty. With update 15.30007, Poruchiks have 162.5 hit points, 22 hand damage, 30 siege damage, 11 train and kill bounties, and a 20% hit points and damage penalty.
The word "poruchik" is of Slavic origin and variably describes a person who receives orders or oversees something. In the Russian imperial army a Poruchik ("Lieutenant") corresponds to a low company-grade or junior officer rank originally originating from the foreign mercenary regiments that were fighting for the Muscovite army. These mercenary regiments were often formed in German states and came with their own command structure which on its own had a lasting influence on the Muscovite and Imperial Russian armies. When emperor Peter the Great reformed the Russian army at the end of the 17th century he mostly sought to structure it after the Prussian model. In his "Table of Ranks" from 1722 he replaced most hereditary titles of nobility in the army and government institutions with new ranks. Many of these historical ranks such as Rittmeister (German for "Riding Master"), Fendrik (after German "Fähnrich", a flag-bearer) or Stabs-Ofitser (after German "Stabsoffizier", a senior officer) give testimony to this German influence.
Whereas most officers in the Muscovite standing army were nobles officers in the reformed imperial army could also be commoners who proved their talent. In both armies the ranks of officers could be easily recognized by the colored tassels of their partisans, a polearm similar to a spontoon or halberd.
A company-grade officer of rank such as the Poruchik would typically assume the command of 40 up to 100 soldiers. Greater military units like a Russian regiment ("polk") featuring hundreds of soldiers was instead commanded by a polkovnik or brigadier, two ranks that already belong to superior rank group, the senior officers.
Fealty Aura (passive): This unit gets stronger with more allied units nearby. Gets +0.5% hit points from each infantry unit in a radius of 20 (up to +13%). Requires the "Polk" Home City Card.
Veteran Poruchiks
Guard Poruchiks
Imperial Poruchiks
Maya Cotton Armor (+20%)
Cree Tanning (+5%)
Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Tar Kilns (+5%)
Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%)
Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%)
Master Lessons (+10%)
Yoga (+5%)
Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack damage)
Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Military Drummers (+10%)
Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%)
Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Apache Endurance (+5%)
Town Watch (+3)
Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Standing Army (-25%)
Quechuan Diet (-15%)
Immigrants (-10%)
Westernization (grants Veteran upgrade)
Petrine Reforms (grants Guard upgrade)
Meritocracy (-20% upgrades cost)
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Scout Infantry
TEAM Inca Bridges
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
TEAM Sengoku
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
TEAM Mariachi
6 Poruchiks
11 Poruchiks
13 Poruchiks
15 Poruchiks
Polk
Ransack
New Order Regiments
Sovnya
Fencing School
Dueling School
Pjotr's Toy Soldiers
Cudgel War
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
TEAM House of Bernadotte
