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
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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"Fight for your country -- that is the best, the only omen! ..." - Hector
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).
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“ὁ δ᾽ ἠλίθιος ὣσπερ πρόβατον βῆ βῆ λέγων βαδίζει” – Kratinos in Dionysalexandros.
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.
"When the candles are out all women are fair."
-Plutarch, Coniugia Praecepta 46
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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from Hannibal Khan the Great, Brennus, Tellos Athenaios, and Winsington III.
Could also be a bribed spartan unit.
I did that alot when playing as the phoenicians.
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