In-game, the Japanese are specified as an infantry civilization.
Overview
Civilization bonuses
- Fishing Ships have double HP, +2 pierce armor, and work 5%/10%/15%/20% faster in the Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.
- Mills, Lumber Camps, and Mining Camps are 50% cheaper.
- Infantry attack 33% faster starting in the Feudal Age.
- Team bonus: Galleys have +50% Line of Sight.
Unique units
Samurai (anti-unique unit infantry)
Unique technologies
- File:CastleAgeUnique.png Yasama (towers fire extra arrows)
- File:Unique-tech.jpg Kataparuto (Trebuchets fire and pack faster)
Tech tree key
The Japanese have access to the following units, buildings, and technologies. Clicking on the icon links to the corresponding page.
- Red: Buildings
- Blue: Units
- Green: Technologies
- Purple: Unique units
Military
Barracks
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Archery Range
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Stable
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Research
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Economy
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Mill
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Market
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Changelog
The Age of Kings
- Infantry attacks 11%/18%/33% faster in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
- Cannot research Gold Shaft Mining.
- Cannot research Treadmill Crane.
- Samurai train in 16 seconds
- Samurai have 0 pierce armor, a Rate of Fire of 2.0, and move at a speed of 0.9
- Samurai have an attack bonus of +5 (+6 for Elite) against Unique units.
The Conquerors
- Infantry now attacks 33% faster starting in the Feudal Age.
- Cannot research Bloodlines.
- Kataparuto introduced.
- Samurai now train in 9 seconds.
- Samurai now have 1 pierce armor, a Rate of Fire of 1.9, and move at a speed of 1.
- Samurai now have an attack bonus of +10 (+12 for Elite) against unique units.
The Forgotten
- Bloodlines added to the technology tree.
- Gold Shaft Mining added to the technology tree.
- Yasama introduced. It costs 300F/400W and gives towers 3 additional arrows.
The African Kingdoms
- Yasama now costs 300F/300W.
- With patch 4.8, Yasama now gives towers 2 additional arrows.
- With patch 4.8, Treadmill Crane was added to the technology tree.