| “ | Armored vehicle with cannons pointing in all directions. Let's have a ride on the merry-go-round! | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
Leonardo's Tank is an artillery unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that is unique to the Italians and can only be acquired as an age up reward after sending the "Advanced Politicians" Home City Card and aging up to the Imperial Age. It is a multiple-cannon artillery unit with a faster movement and attack speed, and highly increased hit points, that can only be acquired once per game.
Overview[]
Leonardo's Tank is an untrainable artillery unit. The only way to obtain it is by sending the "Advanced Politicians" Home City Card and choosing The Inventor to age up to the Imperial Age. This will reward the player with one Leonardo's Tank, which can only be obtained once per game and cannot be obtained again if lost. Even if it is not lost during the game, Home City cards or researching Jagiellonian Legacy will not reward the player with a second Tank.
Compared to other artillery units, Leonardo's Tank has a massive amount of hit points, more speed, faster Rate of Fire, resists ranged, melee and siege attacks, takes no population space, and has seven cannons surrounding it, but its siege attack is lesser (causes the same base siege attack as Flaming Arrows). Due to its multiple cannons, Leonardo's Tank is able to fire in any direction without having to turn almost completely in order to face the enemy's units or buildings. It has the ability to collect treasures like the Explorer or Villagers, which makes it the only artillery unit capable of doing it.
Despite these unique features, Leonardo's Tank lacks multipliers against infantry, deals less additional damage against buildings, and is vulnerable against cavalry units that can outnumber it, Culverins, Huaracas, and Arrow Knights. However, it is a highly resistant artillery piece that can take a lot of damage from most units or defensive buildings, so it could be considered a mobile fortification.
Special abilities[]
Heliocentric Attack: Leonardo's Tank fires six cannonballs instantly. 10 seconds cooldown.- Toccata Attack: Leonardo's Tank fires all its cannons in a cascading attack. 10 seconds cooldown.
Cheat unit[]
Players can obtain Leonardo's Tank as a cheat unit by typing the cheat code venividivinci in the chatbox, spawning a much stronger Tank for the user. It is similar to the regular unit, sharing its name, portrait, in-game model, and abilities, but has higher hit points, resistance, and speed, deals a massive amount of siege damage, has multipliers against infantry and ships, and can be healed.
If the player types in the code feeling whelmed now?, this will turn all units and buildings into the cheat Tank, including neutral wildlife and Treasure Guardians. The neutral Tanks can be attacked by any player, though they are not aggressive unless attacked first.
Additionally, it has a trample attack similar to The Tommynator, which deals 100 ram damage to every enemy units and trees on contact. It will not kill wild animals but will destroy their food value, so if a player hunts them, they will not give any food. Since this unit can destroys forests, players should be careful on using it if they are short on wood.
Further statistics[]
| Unit strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Infantry, ships, buildings |
| Weak vs. | Cavalry, Culverins, Arrow Knights |
| Improvements | |
| Hit points |  Professional Gunners (+10%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
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| Attack |  Heated Shot (+1.5 multiplier vs. ships) Smokeless Powder (+5%) Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier against Frontier fortifications)
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| Speed |  Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
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| Line of Sight |  Gunner's Quadrant (+6) Town Watch (+3)
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Home City Cards[]
As Leonardo's Tank is unique to the Italians, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to Leonardo's Tank
| Some cards are highlighted with: | |
| Green | TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team |
| Blue | Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds) |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
| Unit hit points and damage +5% |  |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 Advanced Politicians
| The next Age-up is (-25% for Commerce Age, -50% for later Ages); all Politicians send extra rewards |  |
- "Advanced Politicians" is required to get Leonardo's Tank as a reward for aging up to the Imperial Age by choosing The Inventor.
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Odzutsu Mortars
| Artillery damage +10%; Samurai Line of Sight +2, siege attack range +1 |  |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Knights of the Round Table
| Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2% | |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Mariachi
| For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10% | |
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 TEAM Spanish Inquisition
| Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10 |  |
Trivia[]
- Without considering cheat units, Leonardo's Tank is the land unit with the most hit points, with 3,500 hit points.
- With the Hussite Wagon, Leonardo's Tank is the second armored fighting vehicle introduced in the Age of Empires series.
- Ironically, Leonardo's Tank was originally meant to intimidate the enemy rather to be used as a serious weapon.
- Leonardo's Tank in-game model has six coats of arms that belong to Italian cities, which are identified by their respective heraldry.
- Pisa, Pissan cross
- Florence, red fleur-de-lis, or Florentine lily
- Venice, Lion of Saint Mark
- Turin, bull in yellow
- Genoa, red cross of Saint George.
- It could also be Milan, Bologna, Alessandria, Vercelli, or Padua, as these cities have the red cross of Saint George in their coat of arms.
- Rome, Greek cross and the acronym SPQR, of the Latin expression Senatus PopulusQue Romanus (English: The Roman Senate and People)
- When hovering the cursor over Leonardo's Tank, the description of it reads "Conical, Comical, Cannonical".
- When idle, Leonardo's Tank uses the Tommynator, BigAndy and Monster Ice Cream Truck's idle audio files.
- The cost in wood (753) alludes to the foundation of Rome (753 BC) and the cost in coin (2022) alludes to the year of launch of the Knights of the Mediterranean expansion (May 2022)
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