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Age of Empires 2: Persians

Cavalry civilization

Bonuses

  • Start with +50 wood and +50 food
  • Town Centers and Docks +100% HP and work +5/10/15/20% faster in Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
  • Parthian Tactics available in Castle Age
  • Can build Caravanserai in Imperial Age

Unique units

  • War Elephant (Cavalry)
  • Savar (Cavalry)

Team bonus

Knight-line +2 attack vs. Ranged Soldiers

Unique technologies

  • Kamandaran (Archer-line gold cost replaced by additional wood cost)
  • Citadels (Castles +4 attack, +3 vs. Rams, +3 vs. Infantry and receive -25% bonus damage)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 13 of 63 are missing for this civilization.

Barracks

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

Archery Range

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

Stable

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

Siege Workshop

  • Siege Onager✗ no
  • 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✗ no
  • 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✗ 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✓ yes
  • Sappers✓ yes

Monastery

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

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