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Age of Empires 2: Varangians

Cavalry and Naval civilization

Bonuses

  • Shepherding, fishing, and hunting also generate gold
  • Bloodlines and Caravan effects +50%
  • Varangian Guards attack +25% faster and generate +50% gold
  • Longships and Catapult Galleons attack +15% faster

Unique units

  • Jarl (Cavalry)

Team bonus

Knight-line +1 attack vs. Infantry

Unique technologies

  • Vendel Legacy (Knight-line deals trample damage)
  • Gothikon (Varangian Guards throw axes periodically)

Tech tree

Final upgrades of generic units and technologies not every civilization has: 18 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✗ 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✓ 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✗ no
  • Bloodlines✓ yes
  • Husbandry✓ yes
  • Conscription✓ yes
  • Arson✓ yes

University

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

Monastery

  • Redemption✗ no
  • Fervor✓ yes
  • Sanctity✗ no
  • 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