Chinese Units
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Regular Units
Chinese Peasant
Chinese villagers are very similar to their Greek, Egyptian and Norse counterparts. They cost 50 food to train from the town centre and require a drop site to be built for them to deposit resoures that they have gathered.
Created at: Town center
Age: Archaic
Weak against: Everything
Immortal (hero)
The Chinese answer to enemy myth units are these heroes that are trained from the town centre from the archaic age. They are both ranged and melee, using whichever weapon they deem fit for the situation. You can train up to eight of them.
Created at: Town Centre
Age: Archaic
Weak against: Human soldiers
Scout Cavalry
The Chinese scouts have a smaller line of sight than their counterparts, however they are fast and you start the game with two of them.
Created at: Stables (2 free from starting town center)
Age: Classical
Weak against: Everything
Yak Caravan
Caravans gather gold by making a trip between a market and a friendly town center. The geater the distance travelled, the more gold is gained. They are a good way of gaining gold once you have exhausted your gold mines.
Created at: Market
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Everything
Halberdier
The Halberdier is your standard melee unit.
Created at: Barracks
Age: Classical
Weak against: Archers
Chu Ko Nu
The Chu Ko Nu is a highly powerful archer that fires two bolts at once from its mighty crossbow. This great firepower is compensated for by a lower range than most other archers.
Created at: Barracks
Age: Classical
Weak against: Cavalry, Peltast, Slinger, Huskarl, Turma
Monk (hero)
The monk can convert enemy units to join your side, and can also unleash strong martial arts attacks against myth units. Shennong monks ca convert myth units.
Created at: Temple
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Everything
Cataphract
The Cataphract is a strong cavalry unit trained from the heroic age stables. It is excellent against archers.
Created at: Stables
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Counter Cavalry
Mounted Archer
The mounted archer is an intersting unit, being a very fast archer it is an excellent choice for hit and run operations.
Created at: Stables
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Peltast, Slinger, Huskarl, Turma
General
The General is a unit that boosts morale of all nearby units, causing them to fight harder.
Created at: Castle
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Human soldiers
Fire Lance
The first Chinese siege unit launches small fireworks at enemy buildings, razing them efficiently.
Created at: Castle
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Cavalry
War Chariot
A strong late game unit.
Created at: Castle
Age: Mythic
Weak against: Infantry, Camelry, Prodromos, Katapeltes
Sitting Tiger
The Chinese ultimate long range siege weapon for troublesome walls and fortresses.
Created at: Castle
Age: Mythic
Weak against: Cavalry
Water based units
Fishing Junk
Fishing Boats gather food from fish patches in the ocean. Like farms, fish patches are infinite, but only one fish boat can use one fish patch. Fishing is a cheaper (and once you get the two upgrades for it, much faster) source of food than farming, but harder to defend from enemies.
Created at: Dock
Age: Archaic
Weak against: Everything
Transport Ship
Transport ships carry land units over water. They are easily destroyed if not escorted by friendly units, and will lose their precious cargo if sunk.
Created at: Dock
Age: Archaic
Weak against: Everything
Junk
The most basic ship of the Chinese fleet; an arrow ship. It effectively counters ramming ships quite well.
Created at: Dock
Age: Classical
Weak against: Seige Ships
Fire Ship
This ship takes the place of the ram ship in the Chinese fleet. Like that of its RoR and AoK counterparts, this ship will have to close in on its victim to let loose its stream of fire to destroy it.
Created at: Dock
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Arrow Ships
Siege Junk
The Siege Junk is the Chinese’s siege ship. It not only counters arrow ships, but is also effective at taking out shoreline fortifications due to its long range and high attack.
Created at: Dock
Age: Heroic
Weak against: Hammer Ships
Other Units
Earth Dragon
Xi Wangmu’s god power spawns the immobile but ferocious Earth Dragon.
Age: Mythic
Weak against: Archers