Llama

The Llama is a herdable animal in Age of Empires II: The Forgotten and Age of Empires III.

Age of Empires II

Template:WildlifeIn Age of Empires II, the Llama provides 100 food.

It can be found in American maps and random maps with jungle, including Acropolis, Cenotes, Yucatán, and many others. The Incas start the game with one Llama due to their civilization bonus.

Age of Empires III

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“	Herd animal. Fattens over time. Fattens faster if tasked on a Livestock Pen, Farm, or Village.	”
—In-game description

In Age of Empires III, Llamas can be found in the wild in the maps Andes, Pampas, and Araucania, and in some iterations of Araucania, each player starts with six of them. Alternatively, Portuguese and Spanish players can send the Llama Ranching Home City Card, which will enable them to train Llamas from the Livestock Pen in a similar manner to the Sheep and the Cow for other civilizations. A Llama costs 70 food to create, and when fully fattened, grants 400, but they fatten faster than Cows, making them an all around better livestock animal.

Home City Cards

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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team All Card Description Age Home City level File:Spanish Home City 4 (Sustainable Agriculture).png Stockyards Livestocks fatten 30% faster when tasked to Livestock Pens, Farms, and Villages 1 The Stockyards card is available to European civilizations except Dutch and Portuguese, Iroquois, and Chinese. British Card Description Age Home City level TEAM Wool Staple Ports Livestock fattens 20% faster; Indian livestock generate +20% XP; Japanese livestock contributes 20% more to Shrines' resource/XP trickle 10 Indians Card Description Age Home City level File:Indian Home City 2 (Shivaji's Tactics).png TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Goraksha Livestock generates +80% XP and Sacred Cows cost -20% +1 Villager 10 Spanish Card Description Age Home City level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

History

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Scientific Name: Lama glama Approx. Size: 3-4 ft. at the shoulder, 300 lb. Diet: Grasses, vegetation Llamas resemble shaggy camels without humps. They live in herds and are sometimes added to herds of sheep, goats, and even geese to protect these animals from predators. Humans use them as beasts of burden or sources of meat, milk, and wool. When aggravated or making displays of dominance or displeasure, llamas can spit up greenish stomach acid. They have thick, wooly coats, commonly brown, black and white or piebald. Llamas include four species of related animals - two (the llama and the alpaca) are domestic, and two (the guanaco and the vicuna) are wild.

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Trivia

• While not appearing as a herdable unit, the Llama Caravan is the Atlantean caravan unit in Age of Mythology.
• The llama is the domestic descendant of the guanaco.
• The llama is the largest domestic animal native to the Americas, where they were used for wool, meat, and burden. They were not ridden as they are still too weak to carry an adult for long (unlike what is shown in the cutscenes of the Pachacuti campaign). Nevertheless, when the Incas first saw Spanish horses for the first time they assumed that horses were animals similar to llamas. This probably explains why they were not as intimidated by cavalry as other Native American peoples.

Gallery

A Llama in Age of Empires II