Heavy Infantry (Age of Mythology)

This article is about the technology in Age of Mythology. For the unit branch, see Heavy infantry.

Heavy Infantry
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Mythology
Civilization	All except Egyptians and Japanese
Age	Heroic Age
Research
Researched at	Military Academy Longhouse Hill Fort Military Barracks Counter Barracks Palace Military Camp
Prerequisite(s)	Medium Infantry
Required for	Champion Infantry
Food	300
Gold	300
Research time	30 seconds
Effect
Infantry +15% HP, +15% attack, +1 LoS Throwing Axemen +1 range

• Retold
• Original

“	Upgrades Infantry to Heavy Infantry, with more hitpoints and attack.	”
—In-game description

“	Infantry improved to Heavy Infantry, with more hitpoints and attack.	”
—In-game description

Heavy Infantry is a generic Heroic Age technology in Age of Mythology. It improves infantry hit points, attack, and Line of Sight. It is available to all civilizations except the Egyptians and Japanese.

Before Retold and since patch 2.7, it also affected the Norse Bogsveigir.

Effects

• Infantry:
  • +15% hit points.
  • +15% attack.
  • +1 Line of Sight.
• Throwing Axemen: +1 range.

Further statistics

God bonuses

• Freyr: Heavy Infantry costs 150 food, 150 gold but takes 75 seconds to research.

Myth technologies

• Rigsthula (Heimdall): -16.67% research time. (since Retold)

Changelog

Age of Mythology

• The attack increase is +10% hack.

Tale of the Dragon

• With patch 2.7, it also increases the pierce attack of Bogsveigir by 10%.

Retold

• The attack increase is +20% for all damage types. With update 18.7603, the attack increase is +15%.
• It also increases the maximum range of Throwing Axemen by 1.