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Slave

A slave standing around.

Slaves are recruited from the Mercenary Post for only 5 gold each. They are the weakest and cheapest units in the game, and usually the least useful. They run around shirtless carrying only torches, lighting your enemy's buildings on fire, and in most cases they also light themselves on fire. Slaves are fast moving, and are the only arab unit that can dig/fill moats.

Tactics

The slave's place isn't on the battlefield, as their low health and strength means almost instant death from any other troops. They are most often used by the AI, most notably the Caliph, coming in useful only to slip into unfinished or lazily organized castles to set them alight.

Slaves are most useful in large numbers to dig moats, due to their low cost. If the opportunity arises to set unguarded castle and economy on fire, then their participation would warm your heart.

If your population is equal to the one defined by popularity and housing but you need an extra worker for that farm, stop a facility, buy a slave, retire that slave, launch the stopped facility again. Is performable with any unit, but slave is cheapest and quickest-available way to perform this.

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