| โ | No adversary can stand his ground against me! I am a titan among mortals, a harbringer of devastation, and the architect of an empire without bounds! | โ |
| —Capturing Sultan Bayezid in A Titan Amongst Mortals | ||
Tamerlane is a mounted archer hero found in the Scenario Editor in Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. In-game, he is represented by an Elite Mangudai.
Like other cavalry archers, Tamerlane is affected by all technologies that affect cavalry archers as well as any other bonuses that affect them. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health (since The Conquerors).
Tamerlane has his own dedicated campaign in The Last Khans.
Campaign appearances[]
Prithviraj[]
- The Fate of India: Since Dynasties of India, Muhammad Ghori is a renamed Tamerlane. He leads the Ghorid forces from the western Castle.
Tamerlane[]
- Amir of Transoxiana: Tamerlane leads the Timurids in conquering the major powers of Transoxiana.
Victors and Vanquished[]
- Temujin: Ong Khan is a renamed Tamerlane. Ong Khan is Temujin's overlord leading the Kereyids, and he serves the Great Jin in turn. He asks for Temujin to join in Jin's wars, against the Tatars and the Xi Xia. Ong Khan has to be defeated to unify the steppes.
History[]
Timur was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who is best known for establishing the Timurid Empire in an attempt to restore the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan through a series of military campaigns across West, South, and Central Asia, as well as the Caucasus and South Russia, and even standing head-on against the Mamluks and the Ottoman Empire with a multi-ethnic army that is feared across Asia, Africa, and Europe.
A devout Muslim and a patron of arts and architecture, Timur is regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, overshadowing the fact that his campaigns resulted in the deaths of 5% of the world's population at the time, or about 17 million people. The Timurid Empire was fragmented upon Timur's death, but one of his descendants, Babur, would go on to found the Mughal Empire over a century later.
Trivia[]
- His full name is Shuja-ud-din Timur bin Taraghay Barlas, which his laqab Shuja-ud-din means "religiously pious" in Arabic. Tamerlane was fighting against other Muslims rather than Christians or Hindus for most of his life.
- His European name, Tamerlane, derives from Temลซr(-i) Lang (ุชูู ูุฑ ฺููฏ), which means "Timur the Lame" in Persian, the meaning of which refers to his permanently crippling injuries he suffered in 1363 where he was shot by two arrows, one in his right leg and another in his right hand, either while trying to steal sheep from a shepherd or serving as a mercenary in Khorasan (present-day Afghanistan).
- His name was originally an AI player name for the Mongols. However, in the Definitive Edition, it is instead an AI player name for the Tatars, because Tamerlane was born in a Turkicized division of the Mongol Empire which is much closer to the Tatars civilization.
- 19 years prior to getting his own campaign in the Definitive Edition, Tamerlane was the subject of the popular fan-made campaign "Tamerlane: Prince of Destruction", which is Age of Kings Heaven's most downloaded campaign.
- The semi-official campaign The Rise of Tamerlane, created by a Forgotten Empires campaign designer, is about Tamerlane's youth and focuses on historical events that were not covered in the official campaign. The campaign (containing four scenarios) is available for free download since December 2019.
- A second chapter was uploaded in December 2020, containing three more scenarios.
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