The Fire Trireme is a unit in Call to Power II.
Summary[]
Ancient offensive naval unit.
Gameplay[]
The Fire Trireme is the most powerful naval unit of the Ancient Age. It rams other ships, sprays them with liquid fire and leaves them crippled and burning. It can also employ a Ranged Attack.
Great Library entry[]
The fire trireme was one of the most destructive ships that ever sailed the Mediterranean. Its principle weapon was Greek fire, a combination of naphtha, sulfur, saltpeter, quicklime and petroleum developed by a Greek-speaking Syrian refugee in 650 AD. The Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus burned down a Pisan fleet in the eleventh century with ships equipped with this volatile concoction that ignited upon impact with water. He ordered each of his ships set with a lion's head made of iron or bronze. Tubes fed through the lions' mouths into containers of Greek fire, giving the lions the appearance of spewing magnificent breaths of fire on the wooden ships of their enemies.
See also[]
- Fire Trireme in other games
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