The Cobra Car (simply titled COBRA before The Forgotten) is a cheat unit in Age of Empires II. It is an AC Cobra that fires rounds of bullets at its targets. It is also available in the Scenario Editor.
Overview[]
Rather than utilizing explosive weapons in combat like its predecessor, the Cobra behaves much like a very rapidly-firing Hand Cannoneer. However, the Cobra has a tendency to harm friendly units caught within its blast radius.
The Cobra has a very impressive range of 10 that can hardly be matched by any other ranged attacker in the game, allowing it to pummel incoming hostiles with ease, though Towers, Castles or British Longbowmen can outrange it. Still, due to its high hit points, armor, and damage output, the Cobra Car easily mows down armies of Longbowmen.
A fatal weakness of Cobras is their poor AI, relying heavily on proper and constant micromanagement in order to protect them from damage and destruction during a raid, not from the enemy but from themselves. For some reason, shots fired from the Cobras can deal high damage towards friendlies who wander into their line of fire (including other Cobras). Because of this, clusters of these cars huddling up trying to tear down a fortified structure such as a Castle or Wonder can accidentally fire over and destroy each other's very quickly.
Further statistics[]
Due to the Cobra Car being classified as a siege weapon, all technologies and civilization bonuses that enhance all Siege Workshop units also benefits this unit. However, despite being also a gunpowder unit, it is not affected by unique technologies and civilization bonuses that benefit gunpowder units.
| Upgrades | |
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| Hit points |  Furor Celtica (+40%, Celts only)
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| Attack |  Siege Engineers (+20% attack against buildings) Torsion Engines (increases blast damage radius, Ethiopians only)
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| Range | Siege Engineers (+1)
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| Armor |  Ironclad (+4/+0, Teutons only)
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| Movement Speed | Drill (+50%, Mongols only)
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| Conversion defense |  Faith Heresy
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Changelog[]
The Age of Kings[]
- The unit is named COBRA, used the Mangonel icon, is hidden in the Scenario Editor, does not display unit outlines when behind units, and is always blue in color.
The Forgotten[]
- The unit is renamed Cobra Car, has its own icon, is unhidden in the Scenario Editor, displays unit outlines when behind units, and its color depends on the player' color.
Trivia[]
- With a speed of 4.5, the Cobra Car is the second fastest unit behind the VMDL.
- As a siege weapon, the Cobra Car can be repaired by Villagers (and costs no resources).
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| Cheat units in the Age of Empires series | |
|---|---|
 Age of Empires |  BabyPrez (removed) ·  Big Bertha ·  Black Rider ·  Crocodile (Alpha) ·  Dragon ·  Elephant (Alpha) ·  Flying Dutchman ·  Gazelle (Alpha) ·  Laser Trooper ·  Lion (Alpha) ·  Medusa ·  Nuke Trooper ·  Saint Francis ·  Stealth Archer ·  Winsett's other Z ·  Winsett's Z ·  Zug 209 |
 Age of Empires II |  Alfred the Alpaca ·  Cobra Car ·  Furious the Monkey Boy ·  Penguin · Photonman ·  Saboteur ·  Sharkatzor ·  Stormy Dog ·  VMDL |
 Age of Mythology |  Bella ·  Football ·  Flying Purple Hippo ·  Forkboy ·  Lazer Bear ·  Methane Chicken ·  UFO ·  Walking Berry Bush |
 Age of Empires III |  BigAndy ·  Flaming Hot Dog Cart ·  Fluffy ·  Flying Purple Tapir ·  Gatling Camel ·  George Crushington ·  Guardian Lion ·  Honey Badger ·  Lazerbear ·  Learicorn ·  Leonardo's Tank ·  Mediocre Bombard ·  Monster Ice Cream Truck ·  Penguin ·  The Tommynator |
 Age of Empires IV |  Photon Man |
