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Dismounted Jagirdar Swordsmen
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Class and category |
heavy infantry
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| Soldier |
rajput_dismounted_noble_swordsmen, 40, 0, 1.0
Soldier model, Number of the soldier, Number of extras, Mass of the men
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| Mount |
Type of animal or vehicle ridden on and its effect
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| Engine and Ship |
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| Attributes |
sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw
A miscellanious list of attributes and abilities the unit may have
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| Formation |
2, 2, 2, 2.5, 3, square
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| Hit points |
1, 0
Hit points of man, Hit points of mount or attached animal (Ridden horses and camels do not have separate hit points)
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| Primary weapon |
11, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 25, 1, no
Attack factor, Charging bonus factor, Missile type, Range of missile, Missile ammunition, Weapon type, Tech type, Damage type, Sound type, Min delay between attacks, Skeleton compensation factor in melee, Weapon attributes
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| Secondary weapon |
0, 2, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 25, 1, no
Attack factor, Charging bonus factor, Missile type, Range of missile, Missile ammunition, Weapon type, Tech type, Damage type, Sound type, Min delay between attacks, Skeleton compensation factor in melee, Weapon attributes
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| Primary armour |
7, 14, 4, metal
Armour factor, Defensive skill, Shield factor, Sound type
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| Secondary armour |
0, 0, flesh
Animal's or vehicle's armour factor, Defensive skill, Shield factor, Sound type
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| Heat and ground effect |
0, 1, -1, 1, -3
Extra fatigue suffered by the unit in hot climates, Scrub, Sand, Forest, Snow
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| Mental |
16, disciplined, untrained
Morale, Discipline, Training
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| Cost |
1, 713, 313, 179, 80, 713
Number of turns to build, Cost of unit to construct, Cost of upkeep, Cost of upgrading weapons, Cost of upgrading armour, Cost for custom battles, Limit in custom battle, Cost for punish
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| Unit Description |
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A region ever the gateway to and from the Indian subcontinent, the waters of the Indus have been a baptism to every power that would seek to conquer the lands and people of India. So too has it been a mark upon which native powers would measure themselves by in crossing to show that they have transcended being an empire of India to become a kingdom of Greater-Asia. Amongst such soils torn asunder by the passing of great armies, divided kingdoms have taken root when the land is not submerged in greater empires of Iranian, Hindu, Turk or Arab. Even since the first arrival of Muslim domination to Northern India, the Indus remains characterized more than anything by divided sovereignty, ruled tenuously by the Caliphates as petty kingdoms both Hindu and Muslim rose from the ashes. With the ascension of Iranian-borne dynasties, it remained a no-mans-land for the Muslims to cross in incursions. Yet it would be with Mahmud of Ghazni that once more would foreign Muslim powers seek to include India as its own, though the Ghaznavids would linger only as but another player of Punjabi politics in the years following his death. Just as Rajput should emerge from the chaos of Hunnic and Kushan invasion, so too should the Jagirdar be borne from seed of spilled blood and womb of warring chaos. Persian in origin for ‘land assigned’, the Jagir is a small territory bestowed from a Muslim ruler to a military officer, in effect making him a subject-king of his fiefdom. Not only would power be granted to the Jagirdar, the holder of the Jagir fief, but so too would much of the income in order to maintain his family and troops. Typically upon death or departure of the Jagirdar, the lands would revert back to the King, but in certain cases the fiefdom would be hereditary. In an ironic twist of fate, it would take further dividing up an Indus ruler’s kingdom to avoid having his land be ripped apart into divided kingdoms. The three hundred some years of Arab rule has lingered on in Sindh, despite power recently having been seized by the indigenous Soomro. Though much of the ancestral Rajput culture remained despite their conversion to Islam, martial traditions were well received by the Rajputs and Jats of Sindh. Among them, the tradition of dismounting to fight, so alien to the descendants of Iranian and Hunnic invaders, was well received even by the aristocracy of Sindh, with many Jagirdar taking to the practice just as they took to Arabian-inspired horsemanship. On foot they fight as a unit of heavily armed and armored swordsmen, skilled with Indian-steel swords of a forward-curve. Consisting of the very best of the Jagirdar dismounted to fight, they are far too valuable to be used to receive the enemy, and in the chivalrous traditions of their Arabian and Rajput ancestors, are best leading the charge at the vanguard.
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Soomro Kshatriya Warriors
