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Age of Empires 2: Saxons

Infantry and Defensive civilization

Bonuses

  • Mills, Lumber- and Mining Camps provide +35 food and +10 stone when built
  • Foot Soldiers cost -5% per Town Center or Castle controlled (maximum -20%)
  • Towers and Castles fire +100% base arrows starting in Castle Age
  • Longships and Catapult Galleons +20% HP

Unique units

  • Hearth Troop (Infantry)

Team bonus

Repairers work +25% faster

Unique technologies

  • Clerical Recruitment (Monks +1 conversion range; train +33% faster)
  • Shield Wall (Infantry gain additional armor when massed)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 13 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✓ yes
  • 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✗ 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✗ no
  • 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✗ no
  • 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✓ yes
  • Heated Shot✓ yes
  • Hoardings✓ yes
  • Sappers✓ yes

Monastery

  • Redemption✓ yes
  • Fervor✗ no
  • 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.

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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