Polemarch

This article is about the unit in Chronicles: Battle for Greece. For the unit upgrade in Age of Mythology, see Centaur.

Polemarch
Hero information
Introduced in	Chronicles: Battle for Greece
Hero type	Infantry unit
Civilization	Spartans
Age	Civic Age
Pronunciation	Po-lay-mark
Training
Trained at	Town Center
Training time	50 35 25
Train limit	1 2
Statistics
Hit points	40 65 80 120
Regeneration	0 5 HP/min 10 HP/min 20 HP/min
Melee attack	4 4 7 9
Attack bonus	vs standard building:   +1   +2
Reload time	2
Range	Attack: 0.5 Aura: 8
Melee armor	0 1 2 3
Pierce armor	1 2 4 5
Armor class	Infantry Unique Units
Speed	1.05 1.15
Line of Sight	5 8 9 10
Ability	See here
Collision size	0.2
Notes
1 Polemarch spawns for free upon reaching the Civic and Classical Ages each

“	Powerful heavy infantry unit that makes nearby military units attack 15% faster. Immune to conversion and slowly regenerates HP. Becomes stronger each age and limited to one at a time (two at a time starting in the Classical Age).	”
—Technology tree description

The Polemarch is a Civic Age infantry unique unit in Chronicles: Battle for Greece available at the Town Center to the Spartans in the Civic Age. It is a free hero unit with lots of abilities, but with a very low build limit.

Abilities

Personal abilities

• Cannot be converted
• Free unit
• Free stat buffs upon Aging up
• Skeuophoroi: Can dodge five projectiles over 45 seconds (similar to the Shrivamsha Rider)

Aura abilities

The Polemarch has an aura of radius 8 in which military units receive the following benefits:

• Attack 18% faster (i.e. -15% reload time)
• Morai: Move 15% faster and +4 aura radius
• Ephorate: Regenerate hit points

Polemarchs affect each other too.

The effect on a unit does not stack with multiple Polemarchs.

Tactics

The Polemarch benefits all non-siege non-ship military units, and is an important cornerstone of any Spartan army. As their boosts do not stack, the player can have two separate armies, each boosted by a Polemarch; on the other hand, Polemarchs also boost each other, and can be used simultaneously depending on the game situation and the Polemarch technologies chosen (such as to heal them up faster with Ephorate while on the march). Their aura boosts the Spartan unique unit at the Fort, the Hippeus, more than other units, and so should be paired with them when infantry is viable.

Further statistics

As Polemarchs are unique to the Spartans, only technologies that are available to them are shown in the following table:

Technologies
Hit points	Hippagretai (+50)
Attack	Forging (+1) Iron Casting (+1) Blast Furnace (+2) Arson (+2 vs buildings) Skeuophoroi (+2)
Armor	Scale Mail Armor (+1/+1) Chain Mail Armor (+1/+1) Plate Mail Armor (+1/+2)
Movement speed	Baggage Carriers (+10%)
Ability	Skeuophoroi (receive shield against projectiles, see personal abilities) Ephorate (nearby units regenerate 30 HP/min) Morai (+50% aura radius and nearby units move 15% faster)

Aura and ability enhancements
Regeneration	Polemarch (+30 HP/min, requires Ephorate)
Attack speed	Polemarch (+17.65%)
Movement speed	Fortified Outpost (+20%, with Macedonian allies only) Polemarch (+15%, requires Morai)

Team bonuses
Line of Sight	Armenians (+2)

Changelog

Battle for Greece

• With update 153015:
  • Pierce armor in the Archaic Age changed from 3 → 1.
  • HP increased from 40/55/60/80 through the ages → 40/65/80/120.
  • Speed changed from 1.15 → 1.05 in Archaic/Civic Age and 1.15 for Classical/Imperial Age.
  • Train time changed from 75/60/50 for Civic/Classical/Imperial Age → 50/35/25.

Heroes

The following untrainable heroes in the game have the appearance of a Polemarch:

• Miltiades

Trivia

• When considering Chronicles as a game mode for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this is the first hero in the game that is available in regular Skirmish games, predating the trainable heroes (Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian) introduced with The Three Kingdoms.
• The Polemarch loses pierce armor when advancing to the Civic Age.
• The limit on the Polemarch does not come from an attribute on the unit, but a hidden resource. This resource is always zero. When a Polemarch dies, it adds to the resource. When Polemarchs are spawned, they do not cost any resources, but add to this resource when dying.
  • This means that if a player starts with non-zero Polemarchs in the Scenario Editor, the build limit is increased by the number of existing Polemarchs. This ensures that killed Polemarchs can always be replaced.
• "Polemarch" (Greek: πολέμαρχος polemarchos) is an ancient Greek term to refer to senior military officers assigned as "warlords" during times of conflict. The limit of two Polemarchs may relate to the unusual feature of ancient Sparta having two kings who ruled simultaneously.
• The Polemarch is equipped with a Corinthian helmet, a muscle cuirass, an aspix (shield) featuring a bull-head with down-turned horns, a common Spartan shield pattern, and a dory spear.
• Unlike the Hippeus, who uses the Spartan lambda on its shield, the Polemarch uses a "brazen bull head" symbol.

Gallery

Views of the Polemarch

POLEMARCH (Ephorate) + HIPPEUS vs EVERY UNIQUE UNIT (Total Resources) │ AoE2