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C&D's Perioikoi Swordsmen

- Also included in the GREEKS megapack. Disabling is not required but suggested.

I know, "another spartan unit mod", and you are right, to a point. I'm not even a spartan player, and even if I reckon the vanilla spartan roster to be as strong as it can get (even if you self impose to limit your spartan citizen units), it deserves the chance to a minor reform towards end-game. No, not in a sense of an elite unit. There's plenty of elite units around in the workshop.

CRUNCH:
Their stats are aligned with the rest of the Perioikoi units, of course slightly better. They're decent if not good swordsmen (depends on your standards) and can be recruited either by a level IV Perioikoi Barracks or through the Leonidas' Barracks. As said, this is not because they are elite but because they are "new stuff" and can still be spammed after meeting the requirements. They are not meant to go toe-to-toe with Royal Peltasts or Praetorians! They'll die profusely! Oathsworns will chop them like walking steaks, and even Thorax Swordsmen will probably bully them a bit. (while a Spartan officer dutifully takes notes about how this is not Spartan at all)
You can still 'spartanize' them through good weaponsmiths and training buildings, not to mention the Wonder.

FLUFFY HISTORICAL NOTES AND WHATNOT:
Perioikoi Swordsmen represent a partial romanization/hellenisation of the spartan army. Of course, the experiment would at first involve the Perioeci, just like it happened with the macedonian style phalangites, before it could be applied to spartan citizens just before the fall.

This kind of unit probably would have come if Sparta would have had estabilished a dominion over the greek homelands and perhaps an alliance or first conflict with Rome or the Seleucids. A part of the Perioikoi would have been trained or retrained to mimic legionaries and thorakitai swordsmen of more modern armies. Eventually this would have involved spartan citizens but game-wise a full scale reform of Spartan Hoplites and Pikemen (because you didn't spam Royal Spartans, hmmm? :D ) would be op, because by then they would be veteran monsters who don't even need a sword reform to steamroll everything.

Enjoy!

It is working with a few unit mods from the workshop and some homebrewed others, I have no idea if it is going to crash with Radious' etc.
Anyhing wrong with the mod, just let me know and I'll, uhm, try and beat it with a stick until it works again.

Special thanks to Sebidee for his Template and Tutorial.

P.S.: No, I'm not giving them corinthian helmets.

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Change Notes:
- Corrected a steroids addiction and put them back to the right height.