Imam (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the unit in Age of Empires III. For the unit in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, see Imam (Age of Empires II).

Imam
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Civilization	Ottomans
Age	Commerce Age
Abilities	Heals injured units (10 hit points per second, 12 range)
Training
Trained at	Mosque
Coin	150
Training time	30 seconds
Training limit	30
Statistics
Hit points	360
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	4.0
Line of Sight	12
Population	1
XP train bounty	15
XP bounty	15
Melee attack
Damage	5
Rate of Fire	1.5

“	Heals injured units.	”
—In-game description

The Imam is a special unit in Age of Empires III that is unique to the Ottomans and can be trained at the Mosque. It is identical in all but name and appearance to the Priest.

Imams can garrison in the same buildings as Settlers, and count as a Settler when adding to a Town Center's attack.

Further statistics

As Imams are unique to the Ottomans, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Mission Fervor (+35%)
Sight	Town Watch (+2)
Speed	Mission Fervor (+15%)

Home City Cards

As Imams unique to the Ottomans, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Imam

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Russians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheap Priests Priests, Imams, and Missionaries cost -50% and train time -75%; Medicine Man and Warrior Priest spawn time -15% 10 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Imams cost 200 coin, give 20 XP when trained or killed, train in 40 seconds, and have no train limit.

Definitive Edition

• Imams cost 150 coin, give 15 XP when trained or killed, and train in 30 seconds.
• Imams' healing rate set to 10.
• With update 23511, Imams have a train limit of 30.

History

“

Imam can refer to a religious leader who guides salat prayer services in a mosque, but also to a leader or ruler with political authority. Imam Shamil was a nineteenth century religious and military leader who fought against Russian armies of his homeland in present day Daghestan, which lies between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. The inhabitants of the northern Caucasus had fought incursion by other rulers for centuries, against the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and against Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After the deaths of the first and second Imams of Daghestan (Ghazi Mollah and Gamzat-bek), Imam Shamil took over the guerilla resistance to the Tsar's armies. Shamil became the third Imam of Daghestan and is known for his great physical strength and for his iron-fisted resistance to Russia.

”

Gallery

An in-game Imam

See also

• Missionary – Spanish equivalent
• Priest – other European equivalent
• Healer – Haudenosaunee and Lakota counterpart
• Warrior Priest – Aztec counterpart
• Priestess – Inca counterpart
• Abun – Ethiopian counterpart
• Griot – Hausa counterpart