This article is about the Greek Villager in Age of Mythology. For the Villager in other games of the series, see Villager. |
The Villager is a worker unit in Age of Mythology that is only available to the Greeks. Villagers are essential in gathering the resources with which to develop the player's army and build structures to expand your empire. A strong empire has many Villagers. In times of emergency, Villagers are fair fighters, but they are best left to what they do well - gathering resources and constructing buildings.
The player can only have up to 80 Villagers alive at any given time regardless of the population cap status.
Tasks[]
Villagers are usually used to gather resources to fund the player's many technological upgrades and unit creation in addition to building and repairing structures.
Assigning Villagers to Temples will slowly generate Favor. The more Villagers praying at a Temple, the more favor is generated, though the benefit decreases with each additional Villager.
Buildings[]
Villagers can build the following buildings:
God bonuses[]
Technologies[]
Storehouse[]
- Hand Axe, Bow Saw, and Carpenters: +10% wood gather rate, +50% carrying capacity.
- Pickaxe, Shaft Mine, and Quarry: +10% gold gather rate, +50% carrying capacity.
Granary[]
- Hunting Dogs: +30% hunted food gather rate.
- Husbandry: +20% herdable food gather rate, 2ร food carry capacity (of all types).
- Plow, Irrigation, and Flood Control: +10% farm food gather rate.
Myth Technologies[]
Worshiping the gods below enables players to research myth technologies that improve Villagers.
Aphrodite[]
- Golden Apples: +15% favor generation. Researched at the Town Center.
- Divine Blood: +20% movement speed, construct +15% faster, Villagers carry +10 food, wood, and gold. Researched at the Town Center.
Dionysus[]
- Bacchanalia: +5% hit points. Researched at the Temple.
Apollo[]
History[]
โ | Villagers form the basis of your economy. Make sure you have enough Villagers to generate a steady inflow of resources, but remember they are weak in combat. Task a Greek Villager on a Temple to generate Favor. A mixture of freemen and slaves performed the bulk of the food production and other labor in the lands surrounding the Aegean Sea that constituted ancient Greece. Because the land here was not rich for agriculture, the typical freemen villager became adept at a variety of crafts and was a more independent thinker than more docile peasants elsewhere. Freemen Greek villagers also were the bulk of the Greek soldiery, the best in the world at the time, and were at the forefront of Greek expansion through colonization and trade. | โ |
—In-game history section |