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Units - Mounted Scouts

Mounted Scouts are fast but lightly armed with bows. They will not upgrade into archers.

Scouts remain scouts. They do not turn into archers and keep the scouting promotion tree for advancement. They obtain horses and ranged combat through goodyhut luck when a scout enters and finds an equipment upgrade. Otherwise they may be obtained when Horseback Riding is unlocked. They may be upgraded into Cavalry and become obsolete with combustion.

Mounted scouts are more expensive than chariot archers, but may enter enemy territory for scouting without activating a declaration of war. There are some conditions which may start a war; for example, ending a turn on an enemy capital.

The historical foundation for mounted scouts comes comes from civilizations historically without chariots and from civilizations using small raiding parties. Typically they gathered intelligence or conducted fast raids on lightly or undefended targets.

Created for G&K (tested) and may be usable in Vanilla (untested).

If you wish to adjust combat, ranged combat, cost, moves or range, open the file Mounted Scouts.xml and change the following entries as desired.

Default settings are:
<Combat>4</Combat>
<RangedCombat>7</RangedCombat>
<Cost>75</Cost>
<Moves>4</Moves>
<Range>2</Range>