Named after the farming tool (French: "scythe") after which it was fashioned, a fauchard is a polearm which combines the fast slashing action of a sword or knife with the reach of a spear. Trainable to a series of continental European powers, their fairly average price and a decent attack which can deal out some splash damage makes them highly versatile, being capable of being deployed against a variety of enemy units — especially infantry in tight formation. However, you should not expect them to stand up to heavy cavarly on a flanking manoeuvre. Equally, despite their better attack, Fauchard Infantry are much slower than swordsmen, so they are only effective against other infantry in large numbers. Nevertheless, if mixed in with other units, these units could provide an advantage; given
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| - Named after the farming tool (French: "scythe") after which it was fashioned, a fauchard is a polearm which combines the fast slashing action of a sword or knife with the reach of a spear. Trainable to a series of continental European powers, their fairly average price and a decent attack which can deal out some splash damage makes them highly versatile, being capable of being deployed against a variety of enemy units — especially infantry in tight formation. However, you should not expect them to stand up to heavy cavarly on a flanking manoeuvre. Equally, despite their better attack, Fauchard Infantry are much slower than swordsmen, so they are only effective against other infantry in large numbers. Nevertheless, if mixed in with other units, these units could provide an advantage; given
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**Castle Age
**Level 4 link=Library#military research|Military
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*Militia
Upgrades to:
*Espadachines for France;
*Halberdiers for others
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*Resource cost: 60link=Resources#Metal|Metal; 50link=Resources#Food|Food
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*Creation speed: Fairly slow
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| - Named after the farming tool (French: "scythe") after which it was fashioned, a fauchard is a polearm which combines the fast slashing action of a sword or knife with the reach of a spear. Trainable to a series of continental European powers, their fairly average price and a decent attack which can deal out some splash damage makes them highly versatile, being capable of being deployed against a variety of enemy units — especially infantry in tight formation. However, you should not expect them to stand up to heavy cavarly on a flanking manoeuvre. Equally, despite their better attack, Fauchard Infantry are much slower than swordsmen, so they are only effective against other infantry in large numbers. Nevertheless, if mixed in with other units, these units could provide an advantage; given their strong anti-infantry attack, the French could mix in Galloglaich and Swiss mercenaries to enhance their anti-cavalry attack. Despite being deceptively simple to make, a polearm was highly lethal, especially in the hands of well-trained users. Polearms combined the long reach of spears and shorter weapons, such as warhammers or swords to form a highly versatile anti-personnel weapon. Caesar's naval victory in north-eastern Gaul (present-day Brittany, France) was attributed to the use of billhooks which were used to slash the rigging of the elusive Veneti fleet, disabling the ships and granting the Romans (despite their use of more inferior vessels) north-western Gaul. In Northern Asia, Britain, Scandinavia, Central Europe and Italy, polearms were often the favourite weapons of various armies, because of their availability and were even used from horseback in China and Japan. Glaives appear to be popular in Eastern Europe, and for this reason, both Hungary and the Turks can recruit ethnic Vlachs proficient with this weapon to boost their troops.
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