Heavy Transport

Heavy Transport
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires
Type	Transport Boat
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Iron Age
Training
Trained at	Dock
Wood	150
Training time	75 seconds (base) 37 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	200
Melee armor	0
Pierce armor	0
Speed	1.75
Garrison	10
Line of Sight	5
Upgraded from
Upgraded from	Light Transport

“	Used to transport villagers, military units, and Artifacts across water. The Heavy Transport has more hit points, is faster, and carries more units than the Light Transport.	”
—In-game description in the Definitive Edition

The Heavy Transport is a ship in Age of Empires that can be trained at the Dock once the Iron Age is reached.

Gameplay

As the upgrade of the Light Transport, it doubles its carrying capacity to ten units and adds +50 additional hit points while slightly increasing movement speed. Depending on the type of map, the upgrade may not be needed in most games, but if played on sea maps with many island chains, it is strongly recommended.

The Heavy Transport is available to all civilizations.

Civilization bonuses

• Carthaginians: Heavy Transports have +25% speed.
• Greeks: Heavy Transports have +20% speed.
• Macedonians: Heavy Transports have +2 Line of Sight and are four times more resistant to conversion.
• Minoans: Heavy Transports cost -30%.
• Yamato: Heavy Transports have +25% hit points.

Team bonuses

• Palmyrans: Researching technologies that benefit Heavy Transports are 30% faster.

Changelog

Age of Empires

• The Heavy Transport is not available to the Assyrians, Babylonians, Choson, Hittites, Palmyrans, Shang, and Sumerians.

Definitive Edition

• All civilizations have access to the Heavy Transport.

Return of Rome

• Team bonuses added, Palmyrans: Technologies benefiting Heavy Transports researched 30% faster.

History

“	Ships built for carrying military units replaced smaller galleys when armies grew larger and targets became more valuable and better defended. It became necessary to move ever-larger armies for invasion, and to bring siege engines and supplies along for extended sieges of coastal cities. The Heavy Transport represents a larger sailing ship, something like a Merchant Ship, built mainly for capacity at the expense of speed.	”
—The Age of Empires manual

Gallery

Heavy Transports in the Definitive Edition.

A group of Heavy Transports in the original game.

Two Heavy Transports owned by player 2

Heavy Transport idle sprite in Return of Rome

Technology tree

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