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โ€œMounted infant-ry on a tricycle. A cute, innocent baby with poopy pants and daddy's shotgun. Such a lil' sweetheart.โ€
—In-game description in the Definitive Edition

BabyPrez is a cheat unit available in Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome. It is an infant mounted on a tricycle armed with a single large mini-gun, hence its name. BabyPrez always spawns at the most recently built Town Center. Despite its superior stats compared to a standard unit, its stats cannot be upgraded and it is vulnerable to conversion.

The unit is also available in the Scenario Editor (Definitive Edition only). The unit and its cheat code are not present in the Age of Empires game mode in Return of Rome.

Trivia[]

  • The toddler is based on the child of Scott Winsett, lead artist of The Rise of Rome.[1] Additionally, the unit's internal name is "Winsett's_baby".
  • The primary fire sound of the BabyPrez's gun is the same as the one from the original Quake shotgun, albeit without the pump-sound effect.
  • When it dies, the infant rolls forward off the tricycle with a loud cry and will remain on the ground eternally. Unlike other units, it will not decompose and disappear off the map; however, building any structure over it will remove its remains. The only other unit that shares this unique feature is the Zug 209, although with a different death animation.
  • Like several other cheat units in Age of Empires, BabyPrez has no icon. Other cheat units eventually received icons in Return of Rome.

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References[]

  1. โ†‘ Discussion with Mark Terrano (July 2012) on Reddit
Cheat units in the Age of Empires series
Age of Empires
BabyPrez (removed)  ยท Returnofrome heavy catapult icon Big Bertha  ยท Horse Archer Black Rider  ยท Dragon Icon updated nuRoR Dragon  ยท Returnofrome juggernaut icon Flying Dutchman  ยท Photonman aoe2DE Laser Trooper  ยท Cavalry111 Medusa  ยท Nuke Trooper Icon updated nuRoR Nuke Trooper  ยท AoE2 DE priest icon Saint Francis
Composite Bowman Stealth Archer  ยท Winsett other Z Icon updated nuRoR Winsett's other Z  ยท Winsett Z Icon updated nuRoR Winsett's Z  ยท Zug 209 Icon updated nuRoR Zug 209
Age of Empires II
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Age of Mythology
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Age of Empires III
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Age of Empires IV
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