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Age of Empires 2: Chinese

Archer and Gunpowder civilization

Bonuses

  • Start with +3 Villagers, but -50 wood and -200 food
  • Technologies cost -5/10/15% in Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
  • Town Centers +7 line of sight and provide +15 population space
  • Fire Lancers and Fire Ships move +5/10% faster in Castle/Imperial Age

Unique units

  • Chu Ko Nu (Foot Archer)
  • Dragon Ship (Warship)

Team bonus

Farms +10% food

Unique technologies

  • Great Wall (Walls, Watch Tower-line and Bombard Towers +30% HP)
  • Rocketry (Scorpions, Rocket Carts and Lou Chuans +25% attack; Lou Chuans fire rockets)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 15 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✗ no
  • Hand Cannoneer✗ no

Stable

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

Siege Workshop

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

Dock

  • Galleon✓ yes
  • Cannon Galleon✗ no

Blacksmith

  • Forging✓ yes
  • Iron Casting✓ yes
  • Blast Furnace✓ yes
  • 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✗ no
  • Two-Man Saw✓ yes
  • Gold Shaft Mining✓ yes
  • Stone Shaft Mining✓ yes
  • Treadmill Crane✗ no

Military technologies

  • Squires✓ yes
  • Thumb Ring✓ yes
  • Bloodlines✓ yes
  • Husbandry✓ yes
  • Conscription✓ yes
  • Arson✓ yes

University

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

Monastery

  • Redemption✗ no
  • Fervor✓ yes
  • Sanctity✓ yes
  • Illumination✓ yes
  • Block Printing✓ yes
  • Herbal Medicine✓ yes
  • 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