Athos Monastery

Athos Monastery
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Building Economic Mountain monastery Resource enclosure*
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Trains healers Researches unique technologies Auto gather coin
Building
Built by	Athos Monastery Wagon
Cost	170 Wood
Build time	20 seconds
Build limit	2
Statistics
Size	3x3
Hit points	2,000
Line of Sight	38
Special ability	Mount Athos
Max. gatherers	20
Build XP	68
Kill XP	68
Healing
Healing	0.5/s
Area of Effect	38

“	Can be placed on a mine for Coin generation. Researches powerful unqiue Phanar technologies.	”
—In-game description

The Athos Monastery is an economic building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that can only be built by Athos Monastery Wagons which are shipped once Athos Monasteries is researched at a Trading Post or Tambo placed on a House of Phanar palace and can only be placed on a mine. It can gather 0.6 coin per second from the mine it is placed on (see here), train healers based on the player's civilization, heal nearby friendly units by 0.5% hit points per second in a radius of 38, and research unique technologies.

Allied villagers can gather from the mine it is placed on, but enemy villagers cannot, so it can be used to deny control of mines near the enemy.

Overview

The Athos Monastery offers additional Phanariot improvements and also allows healers to be trained. The utility of the building can vary between civilizations; while Native Americans are given an alternative to training healers through time-consuming Community Plaza ceremonies, the Mexicans, generally being limited to having a single Padre, cannot train any units from it at all.

The Asian civilizations, Spanish, and United States also cannot train healers from the Athos Monastery.

Special ability

• Mount Athos (passive): The Athos Monastery automatically gathers 0.6 coin/s from the mine on which it is placed, allows allied villagers to gather from it, and denies access to enemy villagers.

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Limit	Civ.
	Priest	100 coin	30	EU
	Imam	115 food
	Abun	150 coin	5	Ethiopians
	Griot
	Healer		10
	Healer
	Warrior Priest	200 coin		Aztecs
	Priestess		16	Inca

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Catharsis	250 coin	Grants a trickle of 2.5 XP if the player's units have not been damaged in the past 30 seconds
	Phanarion	500 coin	Ships 1 Evzone for every 2 buildings owned by the player
	Filiki Eteria	800 coin	After being knocked out, the player's hero units spawn 2 Evzones

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Line of Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Cost	Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)

Home City Cards

Note that the Athos Monastery is nearly identical in function to an Ethiopian Mountain Monastery, so cards mentioning the Mountain Monastery may also affect the Athos Monastery.

Click here for a list of Home City Cards related to the Athos Monastery

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Shared

Card	Description	Age
Monumental Architecture	Building hit points +30%; Town Center and Command Post damage +35%
Improved Buildings	Building hit points +40%
TEAM Improved Buildings	Building hit points +25%

• "Monumental Architecture" is available to the Inca, and also Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.
• "Improved Buildings" is available to Asians (except the Indians), Europeans, Mexicans, and Native Americans (except the Inca).
• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Silversmith	Villager gather work rate for mine, Tribal Marketplace, and Mountain Monastery +10%; Abun gather work rate for Mountain Monastery +10%; Mountain Monastery auto gather work rate +10%; land villager changes gather yield for mine and Mountain Monastery +10%

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Lalibela Rock Church	Delivers 1 Abun and 1 Mountain Monastery Builder; land villager and Abun changes gather yield for Mountain Monastery +25%; Mountain Monastery changes auto gather yield for coin and influence +1,000%
Heywat Philosophy	Mountain Monastery technology cost -30%, research time -50%
Ge'ez Script	Delivers 1 Plentyful Tokens of 400 Influence for each Mountain Monastery present on the map
Tabot	All existing and newly constructed Mountain Monasteries get +900 coin
Gondarine Architecture	Building hit points +25%; Town Center, Command Post, and Palace hit points +50% instead; Mountain Monastery hit points +100% instead; Wall hit points +225% instead
Iyasu Reforms	Villager gather work rate for all resources +15%; Abun gather work rate for Mountain Monastery +15%; Mountain Monastery auto gather work rate +15%
Fazogli Gold	Villager and fishing boat gather work rate for coin sources +20%; Abun gather work rate for Mountain Monastery +20%; Mountain Monastery auto gather work rate +20%; Hacienda auto gather work rate for coin +20%

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Ironmonger	Villager gather work rate for mine, Tribal Marketplace, and Mountain Monastery +10%; Abun gather work rate for Mountain Monastery +10%; Mountain Monastery auto gather work rate +10%

• "TEAM Ironmonger" is available to the Ottomans and Spanish.

French

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Louvre	Adds 0.1 to XP trickle rate; Town Watch, Gas Lighting, Standing Army, Mass Cavalry, Medical Science, and Mission Fervor cost -50%; Kebra Nagast, Book of Axum, and Solomonic Dynasty cost -10%

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
Wampum	Unit train bounty +35%, train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead; building build bounty +35%

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Huanka Support	Delivers 1 Town Travois and 1 War Hut Travois; Town Center build limit +1; building build time -15%; costs 500 coin

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Mughal Architecture	Building wood cost -20%, build time -30%; Wonder build time -10% instead, +1 Hindu Villager

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Camp Movements	Delivers 2 War Hut Travois; building build time -25%; Town Centers, Community Plaza, Market, Corral, War Hut, Farm, Native Embassy, Estate, and Dock can be transformed into a Travois to be built elsewhere
Winter Counts	Unit train bounty +40%; building build bounty +20%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Colegio de San Nicolas	Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
Talavera Architecture	Building build time -30%, hit points +30%, grant coin build bounty instead of XP	Imperial Age
Maya Architecture	Building (except Fort) hit points +30%, and now grant food as well as experience when built; grants Redoubts

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Talavera Architecture" is available upon selecting the Puebla Federal State.
• "Maya Architecture" are available upon revolting to the Maya.

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Falun Mine	Delivers 1 Prospector Wagon; land villager changes gather yield for mine and Mountain Monastery +25%, Abun for Mountain Monastery +25%, Mountain Monastery auto gather yield for coin and influence +25%

United States

Card	Description	Age
Connecticut Shipwrights	War ship train time -50%; building build time -35%; artillery train time -15%, Heavy Cannon train time -10% instead	Imperial Age

• "Connecticut Shipwrights" is available upon selecting the Connecticut Federal State.

Changelog

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.58326, Athos Monasteries are tagged as Resource enclosure and can also train Priestesses for the Inca and Griots for the Hausa.

See also

• Mountain Monastery – similar Ethiopian building with the same appearance
• Tribal Marketplace – similar Haudenosaunee and Lakota building