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Royal Guard Swordsman? Thorakites Swordsman?

I put it in civ bonuses, since its not a technology. https://code.wildfiregames.com/D5083 I would think it much harder to get promotion units in the tech tree. And it might be a little cluttered to then show the promotion of cs units too.

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Those would be a good compromise imo XD EDIT: I'm just looking around to see what other "historically minded" mods for antiquity games call them, and majority I've found so far say Argyraspides Thorakitai. Roma Serrectum, Divide et Impera, Hail Ceasar, and a couple minor mods for games like AoE II classic and Rise of Nations all say Argyraspides Thorakitai. Divide et Impera names Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou or Royal Guard Thorakitai, but that is just a super lategame general unit, and DeI's roster still has Argyraspides Thorakitai. But I can't find any additional evidence for or against the idea. So I guess its just a matter of conjecture.

Be careful, its riding archer could still be somewhere close, trying too shoot at you with horrible accuracy

good find!

Should be enough to raise several girls

I've been debating for a bit whether or not to do my "every five years post" about renaming the Sword Champion, and I finally decided to do it. I still believe that they should be labeled as Silver Shields. The corps has been listed as being 10,000 men strong and only 5000 were present at Daphne, with another 5000 royal guard units appearing "in the roman style." It has been hypothesized by period and modern historians that these 5000 swordsmen were in reality the other half of the Silver Shields, retrained into Thorakites to shown the future progression of the Seleucid army, but I am aware that this point is debated amongst this community. While I still believe that they should be called Argyraspides Thorakites, I will settle for at least removing the "Romanized" moniker. This has been a term used by historians to describe a number of late antiquity swords units, because the concept was make famous by Rome, but some historians say the transition to swords in many armies could be influenced by Gallic and Galatian forces, which were common mercenaries and proved effective in this time period, and that warfare was shifting from a rigid formation based affair into a looser more flexible style. An alternate name if the Silver Shield title is not well-liked could be Agema Thorakites, or just Thorakites.