Armor class: Ship

This article is about the ship armor class. For general information about ships in Age of Empires II, see Ship (Age of Empires II).

The ship armor class is an armor class in Age of Empires II. All units that have an attack bonus against this class deal bonus damage against units with this armor class. Fishing Ships are the only ships without this armor class, as they have their own armor class.

Before The African Kingdoms, ships shared an armor class with camels. There are many camel counters that deal bonus damage against ships, because the bonus damage against the ship class was not taken away when the new camel armor class was introduced.

Ship units

The following units have the ship armor class and take bonus damage from attacks against this class. The number in brackets indicates the amount of armor. If there is no number, the amount is 0.

• Transport Ship
• Trade Cog
• Galley → War Galley → Galleon
• Fire Galley (+6) → Fire Ship (+6) → Fast Fire Ship (+9) / Dragon Ship (+9) (the latter Chinese only)
• Demolition Raft (+1) → Demolition Ship (+3) → Heavy Demolition Ship (+5)
• Cannon Galleon → Elite Cannon Galleon
• Dromon
• Lou Chuan
• Longboat → Elite Longboat (Vikings only)
• Turtle Ship (+8) → Elite Turtle Ship (+10) (Koreans only)
• Caravel → Elite Caravel (Portuguese only)
• Thirisadai (+8) (Dravidians only)

Anti-ship units and buildings

The following units and buildings have an attack bonus against the ship armor class. They are sorted descending by the amount of bonus damage they deal.

+50 bonus attack

• Houfnice (Bohemians only)

+40 bonus attack

• Bombard Cannon
• Bombard Tower

+17 bonus attack

• Halberdier

+16 bonus attack

• Pikeman

+12 bonus attack

• Elite Fire Lancer

+11 bonus attack

• Galleon
• Castle (secondary arrows only)

+10 bonus attack

• Keep
• Elite Longboat (Vikings only)
• Harbor (Malay only)
• Krepost (Bulgarians only, secondary arrows only)

+9 bonus attack

• Spearman
• Heavy Camel Rider → Imperial Camel Rider (the latter Hindustanis only)
• War Galley
• Longboat (Vikings only)
• Thirisadai (Dravidians only)
• Guard Tower

+8 bonus attack

• Galley
• Ballista Elephant → Elite Ballista Elephant (Khmer only)

+7 bonus attack

• Elite Caravel (Portuguese only)
• Watch Tower
• Donjon (Sicilians only)

+6 bonus attack

• Caravel (Portuguese only)
• Flemish Militia (Burgundians only)

+5 bonus attack

• Camel Rider
• Elite Genoese Crossbowman (Italians only)
• Town Center
• Lou Chuan

+4 bonus attack

• Genoese Crossbowman (Italians only)
• Fast Fire Ship
• Fire Lancer
• Dragon Ship (Chinese only)
• Elite Fire Archer (Wu only)

+3 bonus attack

• Fire Galley → Fire Ship
• Fire Archer (Wu only)

+2 bonus attack

• Camel Scout (Gurjaras in the Feudal Age only)
• Elite Eagle Warrior

+1 bonus attack

• Eagle Warrior
• Eagle Scout (starting in the Castle Age)
• Elite Turtle Ship

Technologies

The following technology gives the following buildings an attack bonus against the ship armor class:

• Heated Shot
  • +50 bonus attack
    • Bombard Tower
  • +13 bonus attack
    • Keep
  • +11 bonus attack
    • Guard Tower
  • +9 bonus attack
    • Watch Tower
    • Donjon (Sicilians only)
  • +4 bonus attack
    • Castle
    • Harbor (Malay only)
    • Krepost (Bulgarians only)

Civilization bonuses

• The following Bohemian units get an attack bonus against the ship armor class:
  • +4 bonus attack
    • Pikeman → Halberdier
  • +2 bonus attack
    • Spearman

• The following Burgundian units get an attack bonus against the ship armor class:
  • +10 bonus attack
    • Bombard Cannon

• The following Gurjara units get an attack bonus against the ship armor class:
  • +4 bonus attack
    • Heavy Camel Rider
  • +2 bonus attack
    • Camel Rider

Trivia

• The armor class is internally called "Ships & Saboteur" and as indicated by that name, it is also present in the Scenario Editor unit Saboteur.