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—Age of Empires IV description |
The springald ship (attack ship before update 24916) is a military ship type in Age of Empires IV in various flavors that can be trained at the Dock. It is available to all civilizations, except the Byzantines, which have the Dromon.
Flavors[]
- War Cog - French, Jeanne d'Arc
- Baghlah - Abbasid Dynasty, Ayyubids, Delhi Sultanate
- Hulk - English, Holy Roman Empire, Order of the Dragon, Ottomans
- War Junk (Age of Empires IV)|War Junk - Chinese, Japanese, Mongols, Zhu Xi's Legacy
- Lodya Attack Ship - Rus
- War Canoe - Malians
Ability[]
- Man the Sails (Active): Activate to move 40% faster for 10 seconds. The ability deactivates early when dealing damage and has a 1 minute cooldown.
Tactics[]
Springald ships have two separate springald projectiles, which fire from each side of the ship and share the same cooldown. As such, the ship must be positioned with its broadside facing the enemy to fire, making it more difficult to chase down enemy ships. To compensate, springald ships have the Man the Sails ability which grant them a temporary speed boost. All springald ship weapons, including the upgraded Swivel Cannon, can fire while the ship is moving.
Mounted Guns[]
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Civilizations without the standard warship and equivalent ships (like the Atakebune for the Japanese) get the Mounted Guns technology, which converts the springald ship into a makeshift warship. However, it is not a unique technology. As of now, only the Malians and Rus have access to Mounted Guns.
The technology replaces the springald/ballista weapon with a powerful cannon, unlike the Swivel Cannon technology, which adds a weak cannon on top of the springald.
Further statistics[]
Strengths and weaknesses | |
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Strong vs. | archer ships, buildings (the latter with Mounted Guns only) |
Weak vs. | Incendiary ships, siege engines |
Technologies | |
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Hit points | Armored Hull (+20%) Shipwrights (+20%) |
Regeneration | Fire Stations (0.5 HP/s when out of combat, Holy Roman Empire and Order of the Dragon) |
Attack | Steeled Arrow (+1) Balanced Projectiles (+1) Platecutter Point (+1) Mounted Guns (40 siege attack replacing 35 ranged attack, and +25 vs buildings) |
Range | Springald Crews (+1) Admiralty (+1, English) Mounted Guns (+2) |
Additional projectiles | Swivel Cannon (+1 Cannon which fires in 360 degrees) |
Armor | Armored Hull (+1 ranged) Shipwrights (+1 ranged) Copper Plating (+2 fire/ranged, Japanese) |
Attack speed | Springald Crews (+20%) |
Movement speed | Teak Masts (+10%, Abbasid Dynasty and Ayyubids) |
Creation speed | Military Academy (+33%); Improved: (+53%, Mongols) |
Ability | Adaptable Hulls (+50% transformation speed, removes 25 wood conversion penalty, Rus) |
Other | Salvaged Materials (Heal 30 HP when killing an enemy unit, Delhi Sultanate) Piracy (Gain +25 wood, +25 gold when sinking an enemy ship, Mongols) |
Civilization bonuses | |
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Hit points | Chinese (+15% in Ming Dynasty) |
Armor | French and Jeanne d'Arc (+1 ranged) |
Attack speed | Holy Roman Empire and Order of the Dragon (+5% for each Relic garrisoned in a Dock) |
Resource cost | English (-10%) Zhu Xi's Legacy (-10% in Yuan Dynasty) French and Jeanne d'Arc (-35 food) |
Creation speed | Chinese and Zhu Xi's Legacy (+10%) |
Ability | Rus (Lodya Attack Ships can transform into any other type of ship) |
Dialogue lines[]
Springald ships use the same dialogue lines as the archer ship.
- Main article: Archer ship (Age of Empires IV)#Dialogue lines
Changelog[]
- Originally, springald ships were called 'attack ships' and each flavor had different statistics. As such, they had their separate pages and changelog. With the Anniversary Update, this class was renamed and given completely new statistics, and all flavors were standardized to have the same stats. Additionally, they gained the Man-the-sails ability.
- Originally, springald ships had two separate projectiles, one from each side, with independent cooldowns. With the Anniversary Update, both projectiles now share the same cooldown.
- Originally, springald ships had +40 bonus vs archer ships and Buildings. With the Anniversary Update, their bonus vs Buildings was increased to +45. With patch 5.1.148, their bonus vs archer ships was increased to +45. With Update 7.0.5861, their bonus vs Buildings was further increased to +55.
- Originally, French springald ships were called Hulk and shared the same statistics as other springald ships. With update 6.0.878, their ranged armor was increased to 4 (+1). With update 7.0.5861, they are called War Cog and cost -35 food. This was later inherited by Jeanne d'Arc.
- Originally, springald ships cost 120 food, 200 wood, 30 gold. With patch 10.1.48, they cost 110 food, 200 wood, 30 gold.