| “ | Unique ranged unit. Strong vs. units at long range. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Bactrian Archer is an untrainable foot archer unit in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. It is available in the Scenario Editor and present in the Battle for Greece campaign, where it is one of the bodyguard units that can be chosen in the first act when playing as the Achaemenids. It is the equivalent of the Cretan Archer in the second and third acts, although its statistics are slightly different.
Campaign appearances[]
Chronicles: Battle for Greece[]
- Prologue: Gates of the Gods: Bactrian Archers are available as a bodyguard unit to Artaphernes and will follow him and Datis on their campaigns if chosen (being available in Greeks Bearing Gifts, The Ionian Revolt, A City Ablaze, Chasing Smoke, Death to Traitors and Earth and Water).
- The Battle of Marathon: The Persian army under Datis has several archer battalions composed entirely of Bactrian Archers. The Medizers also field some Bactrian Archers.
- The Hot Gates: Persian land forces at Thermopylae employ Bactrian Archers.
- Wrath of the Regent: Bactrian Archers defend the city of Byzantium.
Further statistics[]
As Bactrian Archers are only available to the Achaemenids in the campaign, only technologies that are available to them are shown in the following table:
| Strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Villagers, infantry, Priestesses |
| Weak vs. | Skirmishers, cavalry, siege weapons |
| Technologies | |
|---|---|
 Hit points
|
 Karda (+15%)
|
| Attack |  Fletching (+1) Bodkin Arrow (+1) Bracer (+1) Flaming Arrows (+1)
|
 Range
|
Fletching (+1) Bodkin Arrow (+1) Bracer (+1)
|
| Accuracy |  Thumb Ring (increases accuracy to 100% for non-moving targets) Target Practice (hit moving targets)
|
| Armor |  Padded Archer Armor (+1/+1) Leather Archer Armor (+1/+1)
|
| Conversion resistance |  Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max)
|
 Attack speed
|
Thumb Ring (+17.6%)
|
| Creation speed |  Conscription (+33%)
|
| Aura enhancements | |
|---|---|
| Armor |  Spearman (0/+1, requires Sparabaras)
|
| Attack speed
|
 Defensive Town Center (+15%)
|
| Creation speed |  Military Town Center (+50%)
|
Trivia[]
- Despite being described as a "unique ranged unit", it does not have the unique unit armor class.
- In the game files, the 'Reload Time' is 1.8, but 'Shown Reload Time' is 1.9.
- Considering the entire Age of Empires II dataset, it is one of the few units which have an attack bonus vs cavalry, but none vs camels. Another such unit is the Mameluke.
Gallery[]
Many views of the Bactrian Archer
