Daylami Infantry

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K-Shah, Early Era, H/VH, Savage AI.

This unit takes two turns to recruit, it is a light infantry unit, so not that special, Persian Spearmen take a turnHowever Daylami with RR are more readily available with Drill Square

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Muslim chronicles of Varangian (Rus, pre-Russian Norsemen) invasions of the littoral Caspian region in the 9th century record Deylamites as non-Muslim. These chronicles also show that the Deylamites were the only warriors in the Caspian region who could fight the fearsome Varangian vikings as equals. Deylamite infantrymen actually had a role very similar to the Swiss Reisläufer of the Late Middle Ages in Europe. Deylamite mercenaries served as far as Egypt, Islamic Spain, and in the Khazar Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilan

OK from wikipedia - but there's not a lot of info in english. looks like they could be a good candidate for mercenary units - if only in small quantities. sadly no idea how far the info is valid into middle ages.
maybe not such light infantry either?

oh 2 turns to recruit comes from RC/RR - so you better ask PB that.

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Here is a drawing of, and notes on, Daylami Tribesman

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Dailami
A summary of the written sources for Dailamis

An extract from Ian Heath on Dailami Tribesmen

Daylami Infantryman, early 11th century by Angus McBride based on:
. A 10th century pot excavated at Nishapur, Khurasan portraying warriors
. 'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī, dated 1009-10 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, manuscript Marsh 144)

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An extract from Ian Heath on Dailami Tribesmen
Daylami Infantryman, early 11th century by Angus McBride based on:
. A 10th century pot excavated at Nishapur, Khurasan portraying warriors
. 'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī, dated 1009-10 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, manuscript Marsh 144)

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