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Spartans

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“ It occurred to me one day that Sparta, though among the most thinly populated of states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece; and I fell to wondering how this could have happened. But when I considered the institutions of the Spartans, I wondered no longer. ”
—Xenophon, Constitution of the Spartans[1]

The Spartans are a European civilization in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. They correspond with some of the Greeks from Age of Empires.

Characteristics[]

Civilization bonuses[]

Unique units[]

  • Polemarch Chronicles Polemarch (hero): Powerful heavy infantry unit that makes nearby military units attack 15% faster (does not stack). Immune to conversion and slowly regenerates hit points. Becomes stronger each Age and limited to one in the Civic Age, and two in the Classical Age.
  • Hippeus Chronicles Hippeus: Highly resilient but slow infantry unit.

Unique technologies[]

Polemarch technologies[]

Classical Age onwards, the player can upgrade their Polemarchs with only one of the following two technologies:

  • Ephorate Chronicles Ephorate: Polemarch aura radius increased. Polemarchs enables nearby military units regenerate hit points.
  • Morai Chronicles Morai: Polemarch aura radius increased. Polemarchs increases the movement speed of nearby military units.

There are further two other technologies the player can research for Polemarchs:

  • Skeuophoroi Chronicles Skeuophoroi: Polemarchs receive +2 attack and a shield against projectiles.
  • Hippagretai Chronicles Hippagretai (requires Skeuophoroi): Polemarchs +50 hit points and train 33% faster.

Team bonus[]

Barracks technologies research 50% faster.

Overview[]

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The Spartans are focused entirely on infantry and offense. They have an economic bonus to obtain food faster and in greater quantity, favoring training and rushing with melee units. Their Paragons are versatile generalists, their Hoplites are excellent at engagements with melee units, and their Hippeis are resistant to arrowfire and work as damage sponges. All of them are also boosted by a nearby Polemarch. While they have atrocious archers and cavalry in the late game, they have most options for a versatile Classical Age play. They have serviceable siege, despite lacking Siege Engineers and Heavy Scorpions. They also have poor defenses, lacking not only Stone Walls and Bastions, but also many key Academy technologies. They also miss many important upgrades for Priestesses. Their navy is decent, lacking Shipwright and the final Galley upgrade, but getting the unique technology Peloponnesian League to improve production speed.

Campaign appearances[]

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The Spartans are playable in the last six (16–21) scenarios of the Battle for Greece grand campaign.

In-game dialogue language[]

Villager
Military
Priestess
Info icon Note: The Spartan and Athenian Priestesses shares their voice files.
King

For unknown reasons, the King doesn't have any voice lines in Chronicles, nor even sound files related to this unit.

AI player names[]

When playing a random map game against the computer, the player may encounter any of the following Spartan AI characters.

  • Leonidas: The renowned king of the Spartans who made a heroic last stand against the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae
  • Lysander: Leader of the Spartans during the later part of the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • Brasidas: Leader of the Spartans during the early part of the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • Pausanias: Spartan regent and commander of the allied Greek forces during the final stage of the Graeco-Persian Wars.
  • Agis: Known as Agis II, 18th Eurypontid king of Sparta during the later part of the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • Gylippus: Spartan general who led the defense of Syracuse, during the failed Athenian expedition against the city.
  • Archidamus: Known as Archidamus II, 17th Eurypontid king of Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • Cleomenes: Known as Cleomenes I, 16th Agiad king of Sparta, who helped organize Greek resistance to Darius' invasion of Greece in the early 5th Century BC.
  • Pleistoanax: 19th Agiad king of Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars.

Portrayal[]

“ The defining event of Spartan history took place in the seventh century BCE, when the Spartans marched into the neighboring territory of Messenia and enslaved its people en masse. These people subsequently became known as helots and were forced into perpetual service to the Spartans.

On the one hand, this enormous population of serfs freed the Spartans from the need to work for themselves, enabling them to devote themselves entirely to military exercises – a tremendous military advantage when most of their foes were armed farmers rather than professional soldiers.

On the other hand, the presence of this hostile helot population, always looking for opportunities to rebel against their enslavers, made the Spartans paranoid, cautious, and cruel. They were reluctant ever to travel too far from the Peloponnese for fear of the enemy back home, and they constantly culled and humiliated the helots to keep them suppressed.

For such a famous society, historians know very little about the Spartans and use the term ‘the Spartan mirage’ to refer to the fact that historical record is drawn from non Spartan sources looking in on a society deeply hostile to outsiders, whose strange institutions spawned more imaginative speculation than studied observations. Yet one fact seems hard to dispute: on the battlefield, the Spartans were unmatched. 		”
—[1]

Trivia[]

  • The icon and emblem of the Spartans is an aspis (Greek hoplite shield) with the Greek letter Lambda "Λ" emblazoned on it, as was the case in many real-life Spartan shields and stood for Lacedaemon, the ancient Greek word for the town and the polis.
  • In many ways, they are similar to the Goths in Age of Empires II. They both have multiple bonuses to their infantry, generally poor non-infantry military units, a food-related economic bonus where more food can be extracted from a source, poor defenses, lack Stone Walls entirely, and have a dearth of University/Academy and religious technologies. Departing from their themes, the Spartans have decent navy, while the Goths have certain gunpowder options.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Spartans overview on ageofempires.com
  2. ↑ Sanctuary of Apollo, Amyclae, Sparta on the University of Warwick website
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