Historically, the design of the later Roman legionary sword (or gladius) was influenced by the blades carried by these men. Centuries of feuding among the hill tribes have hardened the people so there is no shortage of tough and cunning warriors - they are quite handy when springing tactical ambushes on enemy units. They fight with heavy javelins and swords, peppering the enemy with missiles before closing up for hand-to-hand combat. Scutarii are well-equipped light infantry armed with swords, shields and heavy javelins.They are called by the Romans because of their distinctive, large, oval shields (the Latin for shield being вЂscutumвЂ™). Other than a knife and a small shield, they carry no other equipment. Slingers carry a shoulder bag with many pieces of lead shot (they can also use stones picked up on the battlefield) and several spare slings including slings of different length for greater or lesser range. They can maintain a sustained and concentrated barrage on enemies and then fall back rapidly to avoid hand-to-hand combat. Slingers are highly skilled missile troops but are at a huge disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, especially against cavalry. They are not intended to hold a position in a battle line, but to harass and disrupt the enemy. Regardless of where they are recruited, they are skillful practitioners of the skirmishing arts, and very adept at springing tactical ambushes. When the opportunity presents itself, they are traditionally recruited from among the Ibero-Celts.

They are light infantry, equipped with small throwing javelins, a falcata sword, and a small shield resembling the Greek pelte-pattern shield. Skirmishers rush forward to pepper an enemy with javelins, and then withdraw in good order before a counter-attack can be organised.

They are, however, experts at reading the land and hiding when there is cover. They have little tactical sense, and even less willingness to fight - they would rather be defending their own homes than be dragged to a battle they neither care about nor understand. Numbers are useful in all armies, and forcing peasants to fight is one way of getting lots of men in the field quickly and cheaply. Peasants are reluctant warriors, but barbarian peasants are better fighters than most: hard lives produce hard men. The Iberians are unique in that they are the only faction that can recruit barbarian boats and 'civilised' Biremes, Tiremes and Quinquremes. This in effect allows the player to utilize the best of it all, the shock tactics of the Barbarians and the organized tactics of the more civilized nations. The Central Iberian tribes as opposed to the eastern were somewhat celticised so they have the Barbarian tech tree, worship the same Gallic Gods but their Military is a mixture of Celtic influences (Naked Fanatics), their own Native Iberian style of Warfare (Scutarii, Bull Warriors) and Carthaginian Influences (Iberian Infantry, Peltasts, Slingers, Cavalry). These tribes are unique in that the Thracians share a semi-civilized Barbarian faction. Scutarii are infantrymen who created the tactics the Romans use, throwing a pila or javelin before charging in en masse with short stabbing swords. Bull Warriors are heavily armoured shock troops that throw javilins before they charge. They occupy most of modern-day Spain and Portugal, they have 2 unique infantry units called Bull Warriors and Scutarii. Spain or correctly named the Iberians is a playable faction in Rome: Total War. There are none better honed for war than the people of Spain!' -Spain Campaign Introduction In the halls of the gods themselves, great champions proclaim their arrival. Across the fertile plains, our cavalry raid their heartlands. Yet there is one art above all, of which our tribes are masters without equal: war! From the fastness of our mountain homes, skirmishers ambush our foes. Silverware, pottery, sculpture or textiles - there is no material in which we do not create beauty. ' Ever since our ancestors first daubed the walls of caves with images of the hunt, we Iberians have been great artists.

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