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Royal Heirs is a reworked technology in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - update 81058 that is unique to the Ethiopians and can be researched at the Castle. Once researched, it reduces incoming damage from mounted units for Shotel Warriors and Camel Riders by 3.

Mounted units refer to any melee or ranged unit featuring one of these animals: Horses, Camels, or Elephants. The Missionary is also a mounted unit, but Royal Heirs adds no resistance to their conversion attempts.

Strategy[]

Royal Heirs boosts the combat effectiveness of their camels and Shotel Warriors, which can either be seen as 3 extra melee armor or 3 extra pierce armor, depending what mounted unit their camels and Shotel Warriors face. This helps compensate for the lack of Bloodlines for their camels and boosts the Ethiopians' already strong anti-cavalry capacity, since they also have free Pikeman upgrade. Combined with their high mobility, Shotel Warriors and their camels can give easy chase to enemy Cavalry Archers.

In the Imperial Age, their Heavy Camel Riders become far less effective, because they not only lack Bloodlines, but also Plate Barding Armor, making their Heavy Camel Riders more vulnerable to foot archers, and will not perform significantly better than generic Heavy Camel Riders. Their Elite Shotel Warriors also gives them a fighting edge in trash war scenarios, as Elite Shotel Warriors not only can clean up enemy Halberdiers and Elite Skirmishers, but also can win cost-effectively against Hussars, which helps compensate for their lackluster Hussars.

It can also reduce even the armor-ignoring attack of the Leitis and Dravidians' cavalry with Wootz Steel.

Changelog[]

Dynasties of India[]

Team bonuses[]

  • Portuguese: Researching Royal Heirs is 25% faster.

History[]

The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was a dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire formed in the thirteenth century. Its members claim lineal descent from the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Tradition asserts that the queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem. In 1270, the Zagwe dynasty was overthrown by Yekuno Amlak, who claimed descent from Solomon and founded the Solomonic era of Ethiopia. The dynasty lasted until 1974.

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First iteration[]

Royal Heirs is a technology in Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms that is unique to the Ethiopians and can be researched at the Castle. Once researched, it makes Shotel Warriors train 100% faster. With update 81058, its effect was imbibed in the Elite Shotel Warrior upgrade, and the technology was reworked.

Unique technologies in Age of Empires II
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Celts Stronghold Furor Celtica Chinese Great Wall Rocketry
Franks Bearded Axe Chivalry Goths Anarchy Perfusion
Japanese Yasama Kataparuto Mongols Nomads Drill
Persians Kamandaran Citadels Saracens Bimaristan Counterweights
Teutons Ironclad Crenellations Turks Sipahi Artillery
Vikings Chieftains Bogsveigar Aztecs Atlatl Garland Wars
Huns Marauders Atheism Koreans Eupseong Shinkichon
Maya Hul'che Javelineers El Dorado Spanish Inquisition Supremacy
Inca Andean Sling Fabric Shields Italians Silk Road Pirotechnia
Magyars Corvinian Army Recurve Bow Slavs Detinets Druzhina
Berbers Kasbah Maghrebi Camels Ethiopians Royal Heirs Torsion Engines
Malians Tigui Farimba Portuguese Carrack Arquebus
Burmese Manipur Cavalry Howdah Khmer Tusk Swords Double Crossbow
Malay Thalassocracy Forced Levy Vietnamese Chatras Paper Money
Bulgarians Stirrups Bagains Cumans Steppe Husbandry Cuman Mercenaries
Lithuanians Hill Forts Tower Shields Tatars Silk Armor Timurid Siegecraft
Burgundians Burgundian Vineyards Flemish Revolution Sicilians First Crusade Hauberk
Bohemians Wagenburg Tactics Hussite Reforms Poles Szlachta Privileges Lechitic Legacy
Bengalis Paiks Mahayana Dravidians Medical Corps Wootz Steel
Gurjaras Kshatriyas Frontier Guards Hindustanis Grand Trunk Road Shatagni
Romans Ballistas Comitatenses Armenians Cilician Fleet Fereters
Georgians Svan Towers Aznauri Cavalry Jurchens Fortified Bastions Thunderclap Bombs
Khitans Lamellar Armor Ordo Cavalry Shu Coiled Serpent Array Bolt Magazine
Wei Tuntian Ming Guang Armor Wu Red Cliffs Tactics Sitting Tiger
Revised technologies
Couriers · Manipur Cavalry · Paper Money · Royal Heirs
Removed technologies
Boiling Oil · Camelry · Madrasah · Obsidian Arrows · Orthodoxy · Panokseon · Pavise
Berserkergang · Mahouts · Scutage · Zealotry