
Age of Empires 2: Ethiopians
Archer civilization
Bonuses
- Receive +100 gold and +100 food when advancing to the next Age
- Foot Archers attack +18% faster
- Pikeman upgrade free
Unique units
- Shotel Warrior (Infantry)
Team bonus
Outposts +3 line of sight and cost no stone
Unique technologies
- Royal Heirs (Shotel Warriors and Camel Riders receive -3 damage from Mounted Units)
- Torsion Engines (Siege Workshop Units' blast radius increased)
Tech tree
Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 12 of 63 are missing for this civilization.
Barracks
- Champion✗ no
- Halberdier✓ yes
- Elite Eagle Warrior✗ no
Archery Range
- Arbalester✓ yes
- Elite Skirmisher✓ yes
- Heavy Cavalry Archer✓ yes
- Hand Cannoneer✗ no
Stable
- Knight✓ yes
- Cavalier✓ yes
- Paladin✗ no
- Hussar✓ yes
- Heavy Camel Rider✓ yes
- Imperial Camel Rider✗ no
Siege Workshop
- Siege Onager✓ yes
- Siege Ram✓ yes
- Heavy Scorpion✓ yes
- Bombard Cannon✓ yes
Dock
- Galleon✓ yes
- Cannon Galleon✓ yes
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✗ no
- 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✗ no
- Husbandry✓ yes
- Conscription✓ yes
- Arson✓ yes
University
- Chemistry✓ yes
- Ballistics✓ yes
- Murder Holes✓ yes
- Siege Engineers✓ yes
- Heated Shot✓ yes
- Hoardings✗ no
- Sappers✓ yes
Monastery
- Redemption✗ no
- Fervor✓ yes
- Sanctity✓ yes
- Illumination✓ yes
- Block Printing✗ no
- 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
