Mounted Trebuchet

Mounted Trebuchet
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - The Three Kingdoms
Type	Cavalry siege unit
Civilization	Khitans
Age	Imperial Age
Training
Trained at	Siege Workshop
Food	175
Gold	175
Training time	46 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	75
Melee attack	30
Attack bonus	+30 vs Siege weapon +10 vs Building
Blast radius	0.5
Reload time	6.5
Attack delay	0.7
Range	10
Minimum range	3
Melee armor	2
Pierce armor	4
Armor class	Camel Siege weapon Heavy siege Unique unit
Speed	0.8
Line of Sight	13
Ability	Projectiles spawn area hazard Can attack ground

“	Khitan unique Siege Cavalry with long range, but cannot attack at close range. Projectiles leave lingering fire on the ground.	”
—In-game description

The Mounted Trebuchet is the second unique unit of the Khitans in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - The Three Kingdoms. It is a camel cavalry siege unit with a long-lasting area damage attack. It can be trained at the Siege Workshop once the Imperial Age is reached. It has no Elite upgrade. The unit is functionally similar to a Bombard Cannon, despite being a Trebuchet. Unlike the Trebuchet and like the Bombard Cannon, they prioritize attacking enemy units over buildings.

Ability

The lingering fire area hazard left behind by the Mounted Trebuchet's projectile

On impact, its projectiles create a patch of fire that lasts for 8 seconds, dealing 2 damage per second to any enemy unit and 4 damage per second to any enemy building in a 0.65 tile radius. The fire damage ignores armor, but does not stack if multiple Mounted Trebuchet projectiles land on the same area.

Unit comparison

	Mounted Trebuchet	Bombard Cannon
Requirements	None	Chemistry - 300 food, 200 gold, 100 seconds
Cost	175 food, 175 gold	225 wood, 225 gold
Time	46	56
Hit points	75	80
Melee attack	30+1	40
Attack bonus	+30 vs siege +10 vs building	+20 vs siege +200 vs building +40 vs ship, stone defense, heavy siege
Armor	2+3/4+4	2/5
Speed	0.88	0.7
Range	10/3	12/5
Additional armor classes	Camel Unique unit	Gunpowder unit
Other properties	Projectiles have lingering fire on impact which deal damage over time

Further statistics

Technologies
Attack	Chemistry (+1) Siege Engineers (+20% against buildings)
Range	Siege Engineers (+1)
Armor	Scale Barding Armor (+1/+1) Chain Barding Armor (+1/+1) Plate Barding Armor (+1/+2)
Conversion resistance	Devotion (+1 min, +1 max) Faith (+4 min, +4 max) Heresy (die upon getting converted)
Movement speed	Husbandry (+10%)

Team bonuses
Conversion resistance	Teutons (+3 min, +1 max)
Creation speed	Celts (+20%)

Team bonuses

• Bulgarians: Cavalry armor technologies at the Blacksmith are researched 80% faster.
• Huns: Researching Husbandry is 20% faster.
• Lithuanians: Researching Devotion and Faith is 20% faster.
• Malians: Researching Chemistry and Siege Engineers is 80% faster.
• Portuguese: Technologies that benefit Mounted Trebuchets are researched 25% faster.

Trivia

• The Mounted Trebuchet is specifically excluded from gaining melee attack from the Forging line of technologies, despite being a cavalry unit dealing melee attack.
• Mounted Trebuchets do not benefit from Ordo Cavalry either, because they do not have the properties defined which help other cavalry units benefit from the technology.
• If the Mounted Trebuchet is given to a civilization with Bloodlines via the Scenario Editor, it will gain +20 hit points.
• Enemy AI units do not try to dodge the projectiles of Mounted Trebuchets, unlike other similar siege units like Trebuchets, the Bombard Cannon line, the Mangonel line, etc. This is because it is a projectile melee cavalry, like the Mameluke, and not a siege weapon.
• Despite being a camel unit, it is not affected by the Gurjara and Hindustani team bonuses, Maghrebi Camels, and Zealotry.

Gallery

Views of the Mounted Trebuchet

Promotional image

Traction, Mounted, vs regular Trebuchets