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    Default Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    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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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    There's this Spartan general Carthage can recruit in the game, that is probably him. So what happened to the Spartans?

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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    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).
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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    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.
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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    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.




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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    Quote Originally Posted by athanaric View Post
    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 once
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    Default Re: Carthage used spartan hoplites against me :S

    Could also be a bribed spartan unit.
    I did that alot when playing as the phoenicians.



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