Leonardo's Tank

Leonardo's Tank
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Artillery
Civilization(s)	Italians
Age	Exploration Age*
Training
Trained at	Town Center *
Wood	1,500
Coin	1,500
Train time	45 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	3,500
Resistance	50% Hand 50% Ranged 50% Siege
Speed	5.25
Line of Sight	30
Ability	Claims treasures
Special ability	See Special abilities
XP train bounty	300
XP kill bounty	300
Siege attack
Damage	100 Siege
Bonus damage	×2.0 vs. Building ×0.75 vs Cavalry ×0.34 vs. Artillery and Arrow Knight
Area	3
Range	26
Rate of Fire	4.0

“	Armored vehicle with cannons pointing in all directions. Let's have a ride on the merry-go-round!	”
—In-game description

Leonardo's Tank is an artillery unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that is unique to the Italians and can only be acquired as an age up reward after sending the "Advanced Politicians" Home City Card and aging up to the Imperial Age. It is a multiple-cannon artillery unit with a faster movement and attack speed, and highly increased hit points, that can only be acquired once per game.

Overview

Leonardo's Tank is an untrainable artillery unit. The only way to obtain it is by sending the "Advanced Politicians" Home City Card and choosing The Inventor to age up to the Imperial Age. This will reward the player with one Leonardo's Tank, which can only be obtained once per game and cannot be obtained again if lost. Even if it is not lost during the game, Home City cards or researching Jagiellonian Legacy will not reward the player with a second Tank.

Compared to other artillery units, Leonardo's Tank has a massive amount of hit points, more speed, faster Rate of Fire, resists ranged, melee and siege attacks, takes no population space, and has seven cannons surrounding it, but its siege attack is lesser (causes the same base siege attack as Flaming Arrows). Due to its multiple cannons, Leonardo's Tank is able to fire in any direction without having to turn almost completely in order to face the enemy's units or buildings. It has the ability to collect treasures like the Explorer or Villagers, which makes it the only artillery unit capable of doing it.

Despite these unique features, Leonardo's Tank lacks multipliers against infantry, deals less additional damage against buildings, and is vulnerable against cavalry units that can outnumber it, Culverins, Huaracas, and Arrow Knights. However, it is a highly resistant artillery piece that can take a lot of damage from most units or defensive buildings, so it could be considered a mobile fortification. Nevertheless, players must protect Leonard's Tank if they want to make use of it until the end of the match, as it cannot be healed, either by healers, Field Hospitals, or Athos Monasteries.

Special abilities

• Heliocentric Attack: Leonardo's Tank fires six cannonballs instantly. 10 seconds cooldown.
• Toccata Attack: Leonardo's Tank fires all its cannons in a cascading attack. 10 seconds cooldown.

Cheat unit

Leonardo's Tank
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Artillery Cheat unit
Training
Cheat code	venividivinci
Wood	753
Coin	2,022
Train time	45 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	5,000
Resistance	75% Hand 75% Ranged 75% Siege
Speed	6.25
Line of Sight	30
Ability	Claims treasures
Special ability	Same as regular Leonardo's Tank
XP train bounty	50
XP kill bounty	50
Siege attack
Damage	800 1,000 (Heliocentric and Toccata Attack) Siege
Bonus damage	×3.0 vs. Infantry and Ship ×2.0 vs. Building
Area	4
Range	26
Rate of Fire	4.0
Trample attack
Damage	100 Hand
Area	2
Rate of Fire	2.0

Players can obtain Leonardo's Tank as a cheat unit by typing the cheat code venividivinci in the chatbox. It is similar to the regular unit, sharing its name, portrait, in-game model and abilities, but has higher hit points, resistance, speed, deals a massive amount of siege damage, has multipliers against infantry and ships, and it can be healed.

Additionally, it has a trample attack similar to The Tommynator, which deals 100 ram damage to every enemy units and trees on contact. It will not kill wild animals but will destroy their food value, so if a player hunts them, they will not give any food. Since this unit can destroys forests, players should be careful on using it if they are short on wood.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry, ships, buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, Culverins, Arrow Knights
Improvements
Hit points	Professional Gunners (+10%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Heated Shot (+1.5 multiplier vs. ships) Smokeless Powder (+5%) Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier against Frontier fortifications)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3) Gunner's Quadrant (+6)
Speed	Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)

Home City Cards

As Leonardo's Tank is unique to the Italians, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to Leonardo's Tank

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Indians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and attack

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Advanced Politicians	The next Age up researches twice as fast and all Politicians now grant additional rewards

• "Advanced Politicians" is required to get Leonardo's Tank as a reward for aging up to the Imperial Age by choosing The Inventor.

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Odzutsu Mortars	Artillery get +10% attack

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center owned by the player; all units get +2% hit points

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight; +1 Inquisitor

Trivia

• Without considering cheat units, Leonardo's Tank is the land unit with the most hit points, with 3,500 hit points.
• With the Hussite Wagon, Leonardo's Tank is the second armored fighting vehicle introduced in the Age of Empires series.
  • Ironically, Leonardo's Tank was originally meant to intimidate the enemy rather to be used as a serious weapon.
• Leonardo's Tank in-game model has six coats of arms that belong to Italian cities, which are identified by their respective heraldry.
  • Pisa, Pissan cross
  • Florence, red fleur-de-lis, or Florentine lily
  • Venice, Lion of Saint Mark
  • Turin, bull in yellow
  • Genoa, red cross of Saint George.
    • It could also be Milan, Bologna, Alessandria, Vercelli, or Padua, as these cities have the red cross of Saint George in their coat of arms.
  • Rome, Greek cross and the acronym SPQR, of the Latin expression Senatus PopulusQue Romanus (English: The Roman Senate and People)
• When hovering the cursor over Leonardo's Tank, the description of it reads "Conical, Comical, Cannonical".
• When idle, Leonardo's Tank uses the Tommynator, BigAndy and Monster Ice Cream Truck's idle audio files.
• The cost in wood (753) alludes to the foundation of Rome (753 BC) and the cost in coin (2022) alludes to the year of launch of the Knights of the Mediterranean expansion (May 2022)

Gallery

An in-game Leonardo's Tank

Many views of Leonardo's Tank, with the Italian cities' coats of arms

Leonardo da Vinci's fighting vehicle original sketch from the 14th-15th century

A model based on Leonardo's Tank, 2003