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Age of Empires 2: Italians

Archer and Naval civilization

Bonuses

  • Advancing to the next Age costs -15%
  • Foot Archers and Condottieri +1 melee/+1 pierce armor
  • Dock and University technologies cost -25%
  • Gunpowder Units cost -20%
  • Fishing Ships cost -15%

Unique units

  • Genoese Crossbowman (Foot Archer)
  • Condottiero (Infantry)

Team bonus

Condottiero available at the Barracks in Imperial Age

Unique technologies

  • Silk Road (Trade Units cost -50%)
  • Pirotechnia (Hand Cannoneers deal +15% pass through damage and are more accurate)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 12 of 63 are missing for this civilization.

Barracks

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

Archery Range

  • Arbalester✓ yes
  • Elite Skirmisher✓ yes
  • Heavy Cavalry Archer✗ no
  • Hand Cannoneer✓ yes

Stable

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

Siege Workshop

  • Siege Onager✗ no
  • Siege Ram✗ no
  • Heavy Scorpion✗ no
  • 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✓ 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✗ no
  • Stone Shaft Mining✓ yes
  • Treadmill Crane✓ yes

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✓ yes
  • Sappers✗ no

Monastery

  • Redemption✓ yes
  • 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