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Age of Empires 2: Byzantines

Defensive civilization

Bonuses

  • Buildings +10/20/30/40% HP in Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
  • Camel Riders, Skirmishers and Spearman-line cost -25%
  • Town Watch, Town Patrol free
  • Advancing to Imperial Age costs -33%
  • Fire Ships and Dromons attack +25% faster

Unique units

  • Cataphract (Cavalry)

Team bonus

Monks heal +100% faster

Unique technologies

  • Greek Fire (Fire Ships +1 range; Dromons and Bombard Towers increased blast radius)
  • Logistica (Cataphracts and Varangian Guards deal trample damage)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 11 of 63 are missing for this civilization.

Barracks

  • Champion✓ yes
  • Halberdier✓ yes
  • Elite Eagle Warrior✗ no

Archery Range

  • Arbalester✓ yes
  • Elite Skirmisher✓ yes
  • Heavy Cavalry Archer✓ yes
  • Hand Cannoneer✓ yes

Stable

  • Knight✓ yes
  • Cavalier✓ yes
  • Paladin✓ yes
  • Hussar✓ yes
  • Heavy Camel Rider✓ yes
  • Imperial Camel Rider✗ no

Siege Workshop

  • Siege Onager✗ no
  • Siege Ram✓ yes
  • Heavy Scorpion✗ no
  • Bombard Cannon✓ yes

Dock

  • Galleon✓ yes
  • Cannon Galleon✗ no

Blacksmith

  • Forging✓ yes
  • Iron Casting✓ yes
  • Blast Furnace✗ no
  • Fletching✓ yes
  • Bodkin Arrow✓ yes
  • Bracer✓ yes
  • Scale Mail Armor✓ yes
  • Chain Mail Armor✓ yes
  • Plate Mail Armor✓ yes
  • Scale Barding Armor✓ yes
  • Chain Barding Armor✓ yes
  • Plate Barding Armor✓ yes
  • Padded Archer Armor✓ yes
  • Leather Archer Armor✓ yes
  • Ring Archer Armor✓ yes

Economy

  • Hand Cart✓ yes
  • Crop Rotation✓ yes
  • Two-Man Saw✓ yes
  • Gold Shaft Mining✓ yes
  • Stone Shaft Mining✓ yes
  • Treadmill Crane✓ yes

Military technologies

  • Squires✓ yes
  • Thumb Ring✓ yes
  • Bloodlines✗ no
  • Husbandry✓ yes
  • Conscription✓ yes
  • Arson✓ yes

University

  • Chemistry✓ yes
  • Ballistics✓ yes
  • Murder Holes✓ yes
  • Siege Engineers✗ no
  • Heated Shot✗ no
  • Hoardings✓ yes
  • Sappers✗ no

Monastery

  • Redemption✓ yes
  • Fervor✓ yes
  • Sanctity✓ yes
  • Illumination✓ yes
  • Block Printing✓ yes
  • Herbal Medicine✗ no
  • Theocracy✓ yes
  • Faith✓ yes
  • Devotion✓ yes
  • Atonement✓ yes

Similar civilizations

Civilizations the game describes with the same focus.

More

Bonuses, tech trees and names come from the game's official text via aoe2techtree, which is generated from the game files (October 4, 2026). aoe2techtree