Lancer

A spear with a longer reach that goes past shields, and shoves attackers back instead of blocking.

The lancer reaches 57 (a warrior reaches 44) and moves at 120.2, more than twice the warrior’s pace. It is trained at the Barracks, in turn with warriors.

The push

A lancer never blocks. When a melee attacker swings at it from the front, it shoves them back 60 and cancels their swing. Arrows cannot be pushed: against archers a lancer has only its hit points.

How to use it

• Send them at Warriors: their thrust goes past the shield, and their reach strikes first.
• Keep them off Archers, who step back out of a spear’s reach and shoot again.
• They are the fast melee: raids and far provinces.