Shipwrights and Blacksmith district, Piraeus

[m_1512]

The Shipwrights

Warships

Following are the ships and their costs, with their variations.

• Bireme Warships: Medium ships with two deck for rowers. They have slight bulk and armor and decent fighting abilities. The following are the variations that can be built for biremes.
  
  • Tower: Ships with a tower built on the deck from which marines fire flaming arrows/javelins on enemy ships to set them alight.
    Cost: 20,000 drachmas
    Composition: 100 rowers and 20 marines (peltasts)
  • Ram: These Ships have a powerful hull for ramming other ships into pieces. These are specially heavy built than other variations to put power into the ram.
    Cost: 22,000 drachmas
    Compositions: 100 rowers and 20 marines (swordsmen)
  
  
• Trireme Warships: Heavy ships with three decks for rowers. They are bulky with solid armor and good fighting ability. The following are the variations that can be built for triremes.
  
  • Tower: Ships with a tower built on the deck from which marines fire flaming arrows/javelins on enemy ships to set them alight.
    Cost: 30,000 drachmas
    Composition: 170 oarsmen and 30 marines (archers)
  • Ram: These Ships have a powerful hull for ramming other ships into pieces. These are specially heavy built than other variations to put power into the ram.
    Cost: 32,000 drachmas
    Compositions: 170 oarsmen and 30 marines (hoplites)
  
  
• Transport: These ships are built for sturdiness to safely ferry troops to their destination.
  Cost: 25,000 drachmas
  Capacity: 300 troops per ship (It is understood that 150 of the troops will man the oars in turns)

Trade Ships

The trade ship is a single row oared ship with sails to give mobility and speed to the ship. The main drawback is the ship not having any armor or marines on it, unless the crew with stones or daggers could be counted as marines. This ship can easily outrun a bireme and trireme if the cargo is sacrificed and dumped into the seas.
Cost: 8,000 drachmas

The Blacksmith district
Commission here arms for your soldiers, state or private.

Arms and Equipment

The following are the costs for the equipment.

• Hoplite equipment: Mainstream infantry of the Greeks, comprised of the free citizens and rural subject of city-states. They are basically heavy infantry able to fight in phalanx formation.
  Equipment: Bronze armor, hoplon shield, spear, xiphos blade.
  Cost: 15 drachmas per set
• Hippeus equipment: Mainstream cavalry of the city-states, comprised of citizens of comparative higher standing. Equivalent to the Roman equestrian, they were citizens able to provide their own war horse.
  Equipment: Bronze armor, cavalry shield, lance, kopis blade.
  Cost: 12 drachmas per set
• Peltast equipment: Light infantry who can also fight skirmishes by hurling javelins into the enemy ranks. Very effective against slow moving troops, but no match for heavy armed soldiers.
  Equipment: 3-5 javelins, pelt armor, shield, short blade.
  Cost: 8 drachmas per set
• Slinger equipment:
  Equipment: Sling, dagger.
  Cost: 3 drachmas per set

[m_1512]

Aristocles commissions building of 5,000 sets of hoplite armor for army of Athens for the amount of 75,000 drachmas.

[Trot]

Alexander hires 2 trade ships
1000 hoplights
500 peltasts
and 500 slingers for 36500