Architect

This article is about the unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean. For other uses of the term, see Architecture.

Architect
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Villager
Civilization	Italians
Age	Exploration Age
Abilities	Gather wood Build buildings for free
Training
Trained at	Town Center
Coin	200
Training time	35 seconds
Training limit	5
Statistics
Hit points	300
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	14
Population	2
XP train bounty	20
XP bounty	20
Melee attack
Damage	10
Rate of Fire	1.5
Siege attack
Damage	5
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	Can slowly construct buildings for free, or very quickly if the foundation is paid for.	”
—In-game description

The Architect is an economic unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that is unique to the Italians. It builds free (no wood cost), but takes longer than a Settler to build. It can also gather wood from trees at the same speed as Settlers, and improvements on gathering that affect Settlers also affect Architects.

Time to build:

• Trading Post: 120 seconds (Explorers build Trading Posts in 24 seconds)
• House and Market: 80 seconds
• Livestock Pen: 100 seconds
• Lombard: 120 seconds (with 3000 hit points, it is the most profitable hit point building per time)
• Outpost: 150 seconds
• Mill 200 seconds
• Barracks: 120 seconds
• Town Center: 250 seconds (Explorers build it in 60 seconds)

When a second Architect joins to build the same building, the time is reduced by half. Settlers cannot finish buildings that Architects started building. Basilicas increase their time to build by 10%, but Basilicas help Settlers to build 30% faster

Despite only having a Villager tag, the Architect receives damage from cannons at 3x

History

“

The birthplace of the Renaissance, Italy swiftly became renowned for the grand and lavish structures that its ruling families commissioned as a show of might and piety. Equally famous were the architects of such wonders, whose craft has a legacy stemming from Roman antiquity. Decorated figures such as Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci – among others – loom large in world history as pioneers in a field as crucial today as it was then.

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Gallery

Architect image from the Compendium section