Imperial Age (Chronicles)

This article is about the Age in Chronicles. For other uses, see Imperial Age.

Imperial Age
Age
Availability
Introduced in	Chronicles
Civilization	All civilizations
Age number	4
Preceded by	Classical Age
Required buildings	Two of the following: Temple Academy Siege Workshop or one of the following: Fort
Research
Researched at	Town Center
Food	1,000
Gold	800
Time	190 seconds

The Imperial Age is the fourth and final Age in Chronicles. It is preceded by the Classical Age. It corresponds to the identically-named Imperial Age in Age of Empires II.

Available buildings

Civilian buildings

• Wonder - special building that grants victory when constructed and defended for 200 years (the countdown is longer for bigger maps)

Defensive structures

• Bastion¹ - Tower that attacks enemies on sight

1. The Bastion upgrade is researched at the Academy.

Available units

Military units

At the Barracks:

• Paragon (upgrade of Swordsman) - Anti-Infantry unit
• Elite Guardsman (upgrade of Guardsman) - Anti-Cavalry unit
• Elite Hoplite (upgrade of Hoplite, Athenians and Spartans only) - heavy infantry unit
• Elite Phalangite (upgrade of Phalangite, Macedonians only) - heavy infantry unit

At the Archery Range:

• Laminated Bowman (upgrade of Laminated Bowman) - basic foot archer unit
• Heavy Cavalry Archer (upgrade of Cavalry Archer) - mounted archer unit
• Gastraphetoros - foot archer with a powerful short-range attack (requires Flaming Arrows, Athenians only)

At the Stable:

• Raider (upgrade of Light Cavalry) - light and quick scouting unit, also good against siege weapons and Priestesses
• Shock Cavalry → Imperial Cavalry - heavy cavalry unit
• Elite War Chariot (upgrade of War Chariot, Achaemenids only) - durable anti-infantry cavalry unit
• Elite Sannāhya (upgrade of Sannāhya, Puru only) - slow and powerful cavalry unit

At the Fort:

• Elite unique unit - a special unit only one civilization can train
• / Palintonon - powerful long-range siege weapon

At the Siege Workshop:

• Capped Ram → Siege Ram (upgrade of Battering Ram) - anti-building siege unit that is almost immune to missiles
• Onager → Siege Onager (upgrade of Mangonel) - ranged siege unit with splash attack
• Heavy Scorpion (upgrade of Scorpion) - ranged siege unit with pass-through attack along a line
• Siege Ballista¹ - siege unit with a long range
• Siege Elephant (upgrade of Armored Elephant, Puru only) - living melee siege weapon

1. Requires Flaming Arrows

At the Port:

• Elite Lembos (upgrade of Heavy Lembos) - fast scouting ship with a flamethrower

At the Shipyard:

• Elite Galley (upgrade of War Galley) - basic war ship with a ranged attack
• Heavy Incendiary Ship (upgrade of Incendiary Ship) - self-destructive vessel
• Trireme (upgrade of Bireme) - melee ship with a charged attack
• Onager Ship (upgrade of Catapult Ship) - siege ship with a splash attack
• Leviathan¹ - anti-building siege warship with long range and an aura buff for allied ships

1. Requires Flaming Arrows

Available technologies

Economic technologies

At the Mill:

• Crop Rotation - gives Farms extra food

At the Lumber Camp:

• Two-Man Saw - increases wood-chopping speed

At the Market:

• Banking - removes tribute fee (since patch 5.8; moved from Castle Age)
• Guilds - reduces commodity trading fee

At the Academy:

• Architecture - strengthens buildings

Military technologies

At the Barracks:

• Battle Drills - gives Levy-line +3 melee attack, +1 Line of Sight, +2 attack vs shock infantry, +1 vs Standard Buildings

At the Archery Range:

• Parthian Tactics - increases armor and attack against Spearmen of mounted archers

At the Shipyard:

• Shipwright - makes ships cheaper and increases their creation speed

At the Blacksmith:

• Ring Archer Armor - increases archer armor
• Bracer - improves missiles
• Blast Furnace - increases infantry and cavalry attack
• Plate Mail Armor - increases infantry armor
• Plate Barding Armor - increases cavalry armor

At the Academy:

• Flaming Arrows - increases missiles and siege units and allows the creation of Gastraphetoroi and Leviathans
• Siege Engineers - increases siege unit range and attack against buildings
• Arrowslits - increases Tower attack

At the Fort:

• Unique technology¹ - special technology that only one civilization can research (choice of two per civilization)
• Hoardings - increases Fort hit points
• Sappers - increases the attack of Villagers against buildings
• Conscription - increases the working rate of Barracks, Archery Ranges, Stables, and Forts
• Spies² - shares enemy Line of Sight
• Treason³ - reveals enemy Kings for a short time

1. Not all unique technologies are military technologies.
2. Spies is not available in Regicide and Deathmatch games.
3. Treason is only available in Regicide games.

At the Town Center:

• Hippagretai (Spartans only)

Religious technologies

At the Temple:

• Purification - Priestesses regain their faith faster after a successful conversion
• Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max) - increases conversion resistance of all units
• Haruspicy increases conversion range
• Mystery Cults - only one Priestess must rest after a successful conversion

Civilization-specific mechanics

Puru

The player can research Skandhavaras at the Fort to unlock two Emplacement technologies which can be applied to each Fort individually.

Trivia

• The icon resembles a scutum shield with a cut like late medieval ecranche/bouche jousting shields, such as this one, like the Imperial Age icon for Age of Empires II, which is a bit too late for the time period depicted in Chronicles.
• This shield in this Age's icon utilizes the patterns of all three previous Age icon shields, while adding a laurel wreath on a royal purple background.

Gallery

Greek architecture set in the Imperial Age

Persian architecture set in the Imperial Age

Puru architecture set in the Imperial Age

Thracian architecture set in the Imperial Age