The Udasi Temple is a native Asian religious settlement found in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post at their Trading Post site.
Unit[]
Chakram Thrower: Sikhs that throw hoops, causing splash damage. Good against infantry and buildings.
Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Sikh Gurus
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130 wood 130 coin |
Heroes get +50% hit points |
 Punjabi New Year
|
200 food 200 coin |
Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Estates, Fields, and Haciendas 10% faster; herdable animals fatten 10% faster when tasked to Livestock Pens, Farms, Villages, and Livestock Markets; Indian herdable animals generate +10% XP when tasked to Sacred Fields; Japanese herdable animals generate +10% resource/XP when tasked to Shrines; herdable animals gather from Haciendas 10% faster; Haciendas auto gather 10% faster | |
 Army of the Pure
|
125 wood 125 coin |
Chakram Throwers get +2 Line of Sight and ranged attack and siege attack range |
Strategy[]
They focus on improving the agricultural economy of both coin, food, and livestock buildings. It is a great economic asset. Militarily, they help heroes and their military unit, the Chakram Thrower.
Punjabi New Year allows villagers to be 10% more efficient in collecting from agricultural buildings, and also makes livestock work 10% more efficiently in livestock buildings. This is a plus for civilizations that use livestock a lot (such as the Japanese, Indians, British, Chinese, Haudenosaunee, Hausa, and Ethiopians).
Sikh Gurus give heroes +50% hit points. This increases their usefulness, especially in searching and hunting for treasures and tanking damage to help the main army.
The Chakram Thrower is similar to a Grenadier. It:
- Is a light infantry unit.
- Has 50% ranged resistance. Makes it naturally good versus light infantry, even without increased multipliers. Incentivizes healing it.
- Only has an increased multiplier versus heavy infantry (so not light cavalry).
- Has a ranged attack with an Area of Effect of 2.
- Is slightly faster than normal for light infantry (4.5 to a Skirmisher's 4.0). Helps it with hit and run tactics versus heavy infantry.
- Has a higher dps in ranged mode, even versus 1 unit. This means it is very important to protect from melee combat with front line units.
- Has a great relatively long range siege attack for light infantry of 20 damage at 10 range.
Army of the Pure gives Chakram Throwers +2 range, +2 line of sight, and +2 siege attack range. Overall, making them better, especially for hit and run tactics versus heavy infantry.
Overall, the Udasi Temple is the strongest after the player has made a significant transition to agricultural buildings, due to Punjabi New Year. It is also about the time, heroes start being used to tank a lot for Sikh Gurus and units start being massed enough for Chakram Throwers and Army of the Pure to start being the most useful. Chakram Throwers make the Udasi Temple especially good versus infantry (including non-heavy infantry).
History[]
| “ | This Holy Site is identical to a Native Trade Site. Allying with Natives allows a player to train special Native units, usually warriors, and also grants access to a group of improvements to that tribe. Native units do not cost any population spaces, but can only be built in limited numbers. The Udasis are members of a Sikh sect that shares many of the same principles as Sikhism, that of a supreme God who governs with justice and grace, and the opportunity of every human being to become one with that God, while renouncing other practices. The very name "udasi" is from the Sanskrit "udas," meaning to renounce. The Udasi sect was created when the followers of Suri[sic] Chand, the son of the very first Sikh guru, Kanek[sic], split from the dominant order of Sikhism. Early Udasis served as Sikh missionaries to the north and east of the Punjab, the Sikh holy land and site of their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple. They insisted that they were in fact Sikh, despite their physical appearance, which did not adhere to the traditional Five K's of the Sikh: a sword, steel bracelet, long shorts, uncut hair, and comb. Other, more drastic differences, such as celibacy and a dedication to ascetic principals, forsaking bodily needs and desires for a disciplined, monastic spirituality, helped to define the sect and set it apart. |
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Trivia[]
- The Udasi Temple is part of the religion themed minor civilizations of The Asian Dynasties, representing one of the branches of Sikhism.
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