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Fire Galley
 Listen to the Fire Galley!
 The Fire Galley is a short-range vessel used to defend against other ships. Fire Galleys are superior to Trireme in one-on-one combat. Fire Galleys takes additional damage from Ballista, Helepolises, Stone Throwers, Catapults, Catapult Triremes, and Juggernaughts, whose heavy artillery can shatter the burning fire pots and setting fire to the ship.
Because the ships were built primarily of combustible materials (wood, cloth, hemp, and pitch), fire was a devastating weapon against them. Ancient mariners devised several ways to set enemy ships on fire. The simplest was to fire flaming arrows or ballista bolts on an enemy ship. Next most useful were flaming grenades, something like modern Molotov cocktails, filled with a combustible liquid like oil. Most intricate were flaming firepots suspended from the bow of a ship by a pole. When the pole was positioned over the deck of an enemy ship, the pot was dropped, shattering it and spread burning liquid over the deck.
wire frame model
Fire Galleys do not benefit from any technologies.
Special bonuses: Boats are twice as resistant to conversion as other units.
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