Xyphos

Xyphos
Availability
Introduced in	Chronicles: Battle for Greece
Civilization	Spartans
Age	Classical Age
Research
Researched at	Fort
Food	400
Gold	300
Research time	70 seconds
Effect
Hoplite and Monoreme line: Increased attack when near enemy soldiers Helot Levies: Disabled

Xyphos is a unique technology in Chronicles: Battle for Greece available to the Spartans at the Fort upon reaching the Classical Age. Once researched, it increases the attack of Hoplite line and Monoreme line by +1 (up to a maximum of +3) for every 10 nearby enemy military units in a 10 tile radius.

The player can research only either Xyphos or Helot Levies. Once either is chosen, the option to research the other is removed.

Trivia

• Xyphos is the name of an ancient Greek double-edged shortsword.
  • The way this relates to the Spartans is that they adopted a shorter version of the xyphos, allowing them to strike more precisely while in close quarters or in formation.
• The way this technology is implemented, it upgrades "Hoplite" and "Elite Hoplite" units to "Hoplite with Xyphos" and "Elite Hoplite with Xyphos" units, since there is no way to enable different types of auras.
• The way the effect of the bonus works is by inverting the "direction" of the aura. In this case, said units are the source of the aura, and instead of affecting enemy units, the aura is making the enemy units affect the source.
  • A side effect is that it also inverts the Hoplite's natural aura of providing each other extra armor. However, this is not usually a concern, since the effect of the bonus is the same even if the "direction" of the aura is inverted.
• The aura is similar to the Monaspa's aura. Both auras increase the attack of the source unit based on the number of units nearby.