Lacedaemon

Faction Overview	Strategic Overview	History
Lacedaemon have the power of Ambition.
:"Alas for the evil days! Because all the Greeks know what is right and fair, but the Spartans alone practise it."
Centred around the famed city-state of Sparta, the Lacaedaemonian nation is very much the opposite of their Attic rivals ensconced in the heights of Athenai. Spartan ways have made Lacedaemon famous, for was it not Menelaus the Spartan and his brother Agamemnon of Argos who laid low the god-wrought halls of Illios? yet here in their corner of Hellas, the Spartans are never safe. Every corner of Hellas now, save for Lacedaemon, is penetrated by Athenian coin which seeks to advance the cause of corruption: and with corruption come enemies, such as the Persians who have imposed themselves on the Asian Hellenes, whose ways the fabled progenitor of Spartan society, Lykourgos of Sparta, eschewed for the now renowned but harsh system that now dominates his home city and the land of his birth.
To the Spartans, the Athenian drive towards decadence and frivolity threatens the rest of Hellas by infecting other Hellene poleis with that same smut, threatening to snuff out the true Hellene way of life. So to the aspis and the dory must all Lacedaemon go, for there is no other way to save their lands and gird themselves with glory in this world ... or the next.	
:"Alas for the evil days! Because all the Greeks know what is right and fair, but the Spartans alone practise it."
Centred around the famed city-state of Sparta, the Lacaedaemonian nation is very much the opposite of their Attic rivals ensconced in the heights of Athenai. Spartan ways have made Lacedaemon famous, for was it not Menelaus the Spartan and his brother Agamemnon of Argos who laid low the god-wrought halls of Illios? yet here in their corner of Hellas, the Spartans are never safe. Every corner of Hellas now, save for Lacedaemon, is penetrated by Athenian coin which seeks to advance the cause of corruption: and with corruption come enemies, such as the Persians who have imposed themselves on the Asian Hellenes, whose ways the fabled progenitor of Spartan society, Lykourgos of Sparta, eschewed for the now renowned but harsh system that now dominates his home city and the land of his birth.
To the Spartans, the Athenian drive towards decadence and frivolity threatens the rest of Hellas by infecting other Hellene poleis with that same smut, threatening to snuff out the true Hellene way of life. So to the aspis and the dory must all Lacedaemon go, for there is no other way to save their lands and gird themselves with glory in this world ... or the next.	
:"Alas for the evil days! Because all the Greeks know what is right and fair, but the Spartans alone practise it."
Centred around the famed city-state of Sparta, the Lacaedaemonian nation is very much the opposite of their Attic rivals ensconced in the heights of Athenai. Spartan ways have made Lacedaemon famous, for was it not Menelaus the Spartan and his brother Agamemnon of Argos who laid low the god-wrought halls of Illios? yet here in their corner of Hellas, the Spartans are never safe. Every corner of Hellas now, save for Lacedaemon, is penetrated by Athenian coin which seeks to advance the cause of corruption: and with corruption come enemies, such as the Persians who have imposed themselves on the Asian Hellenes, whose ways the fabled progenitor of Spartan society, Lykourgos of Sparta, eschewed for the now renowned but harsh system that now dominates his home city and the land of his birth.
To the Spartans, the Athenian drive towards decadence and frivolity threatens the rest of Hellas by infecting other Hellene poleis with that same smut, threatening to snuff out the true Hellene way of life. So to the aspis and the dory must all Lacedaemon go, for there is no other way to save their lands and gird themselves with glory in this world ... or the next.	
:"Alas for the evil days! Because all the Greeks know what is right and fair, but the Spartans alone practise it."
Centred around the famed city-state of Sparta, the Lacaedaemonian nation is very much the opposite of their Attic rivals ensconced in the heights of Athenai. Spartan ways have made Lacedaemon famous, for was it not Menelaus the Spartan and his brother Agamemnon of Argos who laid low the god-wrought halls of Illios? yet here in their corner of Hellas, the Spartans are never safe. Every corner of Hellas now, save for Lacedaemon, is penetrated by Athenian coin which seeks to advance the cause of corruption: and with corruption come enemies, such as the Persians who have imposed themselves on the Asian Hellenes, whose ways the fabled progenitor of Spartan society, Lykourgos of Sparta, eschewed for the now renowned but harsh system that now dominates his home city and the land of his birth.
To the Spartans, the Athenian drive towards decadence and frivolity threatens the rest of Hellas by infecting other Hellene poleis with that same smut, threatening to snuff out the true Hellene way of life. So to the aspis and the dory must all Lacedaemon go, for there is no other way to save their lands and gird themselves with glory in this world ... or the next.
Faction Type: Low GreekNational Bonuses:
*Megale Rhetra : Start with 1 extra citizen, rececive 3 for next city and 5 for all future cities
*Staunch Defenders : Repair Buildings 50% faster, and citizens can repair under fire without penalty
Unique Units:
* : Taxiarch
* : Skirmisher Levy, Sphendonetai [1]
* : 
**Neodamodes Hoplitai, 
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai
** Bowmen
* : Horse Raider, Horseman, Kynos
* : Oulamotai Hippeis, Spartiatai Homoioi - strongest hoplite, but trains slowly.
* : Spartiatai Hippeis - Tougher and stronger, but slower than conventional Logades.
* :  Triakonter, Dieres
(no Peasant Levy/Okhloi for Sparta)
Mercenaries:
* : 
**[Greeks]Tarentinoi Hippeis, Skiritai Psiloi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Symmachoi Hippeis	
Faction Type: Low GreekNational Bonuses:
*Megale Rhetra : Start with 1 extra citizen, rececive 3 for next city and 5 for all future cities
*Staunch Defenders : Repair Buildings 50% faster, and citizens can repair under fire without penalty
Unique Units:
* : Taxiarch
* : Skirmisher Levy, Sphendonetai [1]
* : 
**Neodamodes Hoplitai, 
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai
** Bowmen
* : Horse Raider, Horseman, Kynos
* : Oulamotai Hippeis, Spartiatai Homoioi - strongest hoplite, but trains slowly.
* : Spartiatai Hippeis - Tougher and stronger, but slower than conventional Logades.
* :  Triakonter, Dieres
(no Peasant Levy/Okhloi for Sparta)
Mercenaries:
* : 
**[Greeks]Tarentinoi Hippeis, Skiritai Psiloi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Symmachoi Hippeis	
Faction Type: Low GreekNational Bonuses:
*Megale Rhetra : Start with 1 extra citizen, rececive 3 for next city and 5 for all future cities
*Staunch Defenders : Repair Buildings 50% faster, and citizens can repair under fire without penalty
Unique Units:
* : Taxiarch
* : Skirmisher Levy, Sphendonetai [1]
* : 
**Neodamodes Hoplitai, 
**Ekdromoi Hoplitai
** Bowmen
* : Horse Raider, Horseman, Kynos
* : Oulamotai Hippeis, Spartiatai Homoioi - strongest hoplite, but trains slowly.
* : Spartiatai Hippeis - Tougher and stronger, but slower than conventional Logades.
* :  Triakonter, Dieres
(no Peasant Levy/Okhloi for Sparta)
Mercenaries:
* : 
**[Greeks]Tarentinoi Hippeis, Skiritai Psiloi, Toxotai Kretekoi, Symmachoi Hippeis	
Unique buildings:
*Syssiton
(Sparta can't build Bastions or Citadels)
Wonders:
*Acropolis
*Delphinion
Upgrades:
*Night Fighting
*(Sparta can't research Suzerainty or Materia Medica)
Settlements:	Settlements:	Settlements:	Leaders:
* Sparta
* Messene
* Tegea
* Elis
* Olympia
* Mantiea
* Epidauros
* Phigaelia
* Lokroi	
* Pellana
* Thouria
* Thalamai
* Kyparissa
* Kyphanta
* Methoni
* Sikyon
* Melos
* Thera
* Taras	
* Therapne
* Gytheion
* Geronthrai
* Helos
* Kythera
* Pylos
* Pharai
* Oitylos
* Neapolis	
*Lysander
*Leonidas
*Xenoclides
*Gorgo
*Cleomenes
*Pausanias
*Agis
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