I am ravaging north africa and its on its last legs but suddenly a small army led by a general unit of spartan hoplites attacks me and comes from nowhere how random :s
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I am ravaging north africa and its on its last legs but suddenly a small army led by a general unit of spartan hoplites attacks me and comes from nowhere how random :s
There's this Spartan general Carthage can recruit in the game, that is probably him. So what happened to the Spartans?
Carthage can't recruit him: he is Xanthippos, and he is spawned if Carthage needs a Greek (Spartan) mercenary to sort out its army (or at least that was what he was hired for historically).
Yeah, It's Xantipphos, check Polybios, he said he won a battle for Carthage and then went back to his homeland because of the jealousy of the other Carthaginian generals.
In my current campaign, Xanthippos had a Carthaginian BG, so evidently the AI adopted him as a FM. Unless there are native Qarthadastim who get called Xanthippos as well.
Yeah i think there is. I guess the team had to leave the name Xanthippos as eligible... I had a admiral xanthiposs onceQuote:
Originally Posted by athanaric
Could also be a bribed spartan unit.
I did that alot when playing as the phoenicians.
Not in my case, because the Xanthippos guy had a Qarthadastim ethnicity and portrait. So I guess he probably wasn't the Spartan one.