| “ | Small ship packed with explosives. Detonates when killed, damaging any units in the area. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The Incendiary Ship is a military ship type in Age of Empires IV available to all civilizations in various flavors that can be trained at the Dock. It is a small ship packed with explosives that has no weapons other than self-destruction.
Ability[]
Detonate: This is the inherent attack ability of the Demolition ship, which causes the ship to self-destruct upon use and deal damage across an area, and can be triggered in several ways. By right clicking on an enemy, the Incendiary Ship will attempt to reach the enemy and detonate once it gets close enough. Alternatively, the detonation can also be triggered manually by either using the ability hotkey or deleting the unit. Finally, an Incendiary Ship will also detonate upon reaching 0 hp. All methods deal the same amount of damage. The detonation has a 2-tile radius range, and damage reduces down to 75% and 25% further from the explosion center.
Tactics[]
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Flavors[]
- Explosive Dhow - Abbasid Dynasty, Ayyubids, Delhi Sultanate, Tughlaq Dynasty
- Demolition Ship - Byzantines, English, French, Holy Roman Empire, House of Lancaster, Jeanne d'Arc, Knights Templar, Macedonian Dynasty, Malians, Order of the Dragon, Ottomans
- Explosive Junk - Chinese, Golden Horde, Japanese, Mongols, Sengoku Daimyo, Zhu Xi's Legacy
- Lodya Demolition Ship - Rus
Further statistics[]
| Strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | springald ships, Warships, Buildings |
| Weak vs. | archer ships |
| Technologies | |
|---|---|
 Hit points
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 Armored Hull (+20%) Shipwrights (+20%) Teak Masts (+10%,  Abbasid Dynasty  Ayyubids)
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 Regeneration
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 Fire Stations (0.5 HP/s when out of combat,  Holy Roman Empire and  Order of the Dragon)
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| Attack |  Explosives (+40%) Liquid Explosives (Full damage is dealt across area of effect,  Byzantines) Military Tactics Training (+20% bonus damage,  House of Lancaster)
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 Range
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 Incendiaries (+20%)
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| Armor | Armored Hull (+1 ranged) Shipwrights (+1 ranged) Copper Plating (+2 fire/ranged,  Japanese)
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| Creation speed |  Military Academy (+33%); Improved: (+53%,  Mongols)
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| Ability |  Adaptable Hulls (+50% transformation speed, removes 25 wood conversion penalty,  Rus)
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| Other |  Piracy (Gain +25 wood, +25 gold when sinking an enemy ship, Mongols)
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| Civilization bonuses | |
|---|---|
| Hit points
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 Chinese (+15% in  Ming Dynasty)
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| Resource cost |  English and House of Lancaster (-10%) Zhu Xi's Legacy (-10% in  Yuan Dynasty)
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| Creation speed | Chinese and Zhu Xi's Legacy (+10%)
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| Ability | Rus (Lodya Demolition Ships can transform into any other type of ship)
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Note: Movement speed increases are theoretical, since the Incendiary Ship already has the fastest allowable speed in the game.
Dialogue lines[]
- Abbasid Dynasty and Ayyubids: /Abbasid Dynasty dialogue lines
- Byzantine: /Byzantine dialogue lines
- Chinese and Zhu Xi's Legacy: /Chinese dialogue lines
- Delhi Sultanate: /Delhi Sultanate dialogue lines
- English and House of Lancaster: /English dialogue lines
- French, Jeanne d'Arc, and Knights Templar: /French dialogue lines
- Holy Roman Empire and Order of the Dragon: /Holy Roman Empire dialogue lines
- Japanese: /Japanese dialogue lines
- Malians: /Malians dialogue lines
- Mongols: /Mongols dialogue lines
- Ottomans: /Ottomans dialogue lines
- Rus: /Rus dialogue lines
Changelog[]
- Originally, Incendiary Ships dealt 300 damage, with patch 11009, this was increased to 400 damage to compensate for a bugfix which no longer allowed them to detonate multiple times (multiplying their damage several times over)
- The Naval rework in the Anniversary Update, significantly changed the statistics of Incendiary ships, although unlike archer ships and springald ships, their statistics were already standardized among the different flavors
- Attack was decreased from 400 to 95
- Attack bonus was changed from +200 vs Warships to +300 vs Broadside ships (Warships and Springald Ships) and Buildings
- Wood cost was decreased from cost 160 wood to 80 wood
- Training time was decreased from 35 seconds to 15 seconds
- Hit points were decreased from 200 to 145
- Move speed was increased from 1.5 to 2 tiles per second.
- With update 13.0.4178, incendiary ships gained access to line, column, and staggered formations
Gallery[]
Abbasid Dynasty Explosive Dhows
Byzantine Demolition Ships
Chinese and Mongol Explosive Junks
Delhi Sultanate Explosive Dhows
English and House of Lancaster Demolition Ships
French Demolition Ships
Holy Roman Empire Demolition Ships
Japanese Explosive Junks
Knights Templar Demolition Ships
Mali Demolition Ships
Ottoman Demolition Ships
Rus Lodya Demolition Ships
