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Native Phalangites

This mod allows you to recruit different levy pikemen, depending on the base culture of the province you want to muster them. This is achieved taking advantage of the auxilia system for the roman faction. They are recruitable by every Sucessor States and its satrapies. Savegame Compatible.

Historically, the Diadochi (Sucessor States) always tried to rise their phalanx between their hellenics subjects and mercenaries. They were traditionally good soldiers and highly dependable. However in most of these new kingdoms the hellenics had just arrived and their manpower was relatively low compared to their natives. They were, however, relegated to auxiliary roles, and the Diadochi were afraid of using them as the backbone of their army due to their rebellious tendencies.

As the conflicts prolongated and the armies grown bigger, the Diadochi began to be more prone to use them, like ptolemies in Rafia with the "machimoi", or the seleucids too. Trained in the macedonian way by hellenic officers, they formed a more than capable phalanx.

This mod attemp to represent this by giving a regional look to the lowest pikemen class, depending on the native culture of the province, using the already stablished auxilia system. This levies share stats with the already present Greek Levy Pikes and Egyptian Pikes, so the new units are balanced with vanilla game.

Currently these are the Natives phalangites and territories supported (custom icons included):
-Persians (Mesopotamia, Media, etc.)
-Easterners (Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, etc.)
-Bactrians (Baktria and Transoxania)
-Parthians (Parthia)
-Arabians (Arabian peninsula)
-Aethiopians (Aethiopia)
-Libyans (North Africa, from Mauritania to Garama)
-Thracians (Thracia and Dacia)
-Illyrians (Illyria)
-Italians (Italia)
-Egyptians(now just in Egypt and Libya)
-Hellenics (now just in Greece, Macedon, Western Asia Minor, Sicily)
-Periokoi (just in in Greece, Macedon, Western Asia Minor, Sicily, for Sparta only instead of the standard levy)

They are available to the following factions/groups:
-Macedon
-Epirus
-Pergamon
-Pontus
-Seleucid Empire and its satrapies
-Prolemaic kingdom (Egypt) and its satrapies
-Bactria
-Sparta