Wu

Civilization	Technology tree	Strategy

Civilization	Technology tree	Strategy

“	Lead the Sun Clan to glory through infantry and naval prowess. The Wu unique units are the Fire Archer, a ranged soldier that fires incendiary arrows, and the Jian Swordsman, a heavy infantry unit whose shield offers immense protection - until it breaks.	”
—In-game description

Wu is an Asian civilization introduced in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - The Three Kingdoms, based on the Eastern Wu kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period.

Characteristics[]

Unique units[]

Fire Archer: Anti-building archer which has different attack modes when attacking units and buildings
Jian Swordsman: Heavy swordsman which loses its shield when it takes enough damage, gaining attack and speed but losing armor
Sun Jian (hero): Cavalry hero with a build limit of 1 which speeds up nearby units

Unique technologies[]

Red Cliffs Tactics: Demolition Ships and Fire Archers deal fire damage to ships and buildings.
Sitting Tiger: Traction Trebuchets and Lou Chuan trebuchet weapons fire additional projectiles.

Civilization bonuses[]

Barracks, Archery Ranges, Stables, Siege Workshops, Castles, and Docks provide +55 food when constructed.
Infantry regenerate 10/20/30 hit points per minute in Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
Jian Swordsmen and Hei Guang Cavalry have +2 attack in Imperial Age
Careening and Dry Dock available one Age earlier, cost and research time -75%

Team bonus[]

Houses built 100% faster

Overview[]

Changelog[]

The Three Kingdoms[]

Initially, military production buildings provide +65 food when constructed. With update 153015, they provide +55 food.

Campaign appearances[]

They have a dedicated campaign, Sun Clan. They also have the following appearances as AI players:

Liu Bei[]

Heroes of the Realm
- Hostile Warlords - Enemy

The Great Escape
- Sun Quan - Ally
- Hanjin - Enemy → Ally

The Battle of Red Cliffs (Liu Bei)
- Zhou Yu - Ally (possible enemy)
- Sun Quan - Ally (possible enemy)

Cao Cao[]

The Battle of Red Cliffs (Cao Cao)
- Sun Quan - Enemy

Sun Clan[]

The Conquest of Jiangdong
- Chinese Villages - Ally
- White Tiger Yan - Enemy
- White Tiger Raiders - Enemy
- Wang Lang - Enemy

The White Tiger
- Chinese Villages - Ally
- White Tiger Yan - Enemy
- White Tiger Yan Rebels - Enemy

The Avenger
- Chinese Villages - Ally
- Shanyue Tribes - Enemy

The Battle of Red Cliffs (Sun Clan)
- River Fortifications - Ally

In-game dialogue language[]

Wu use the same voice lines as the Chinese. Historically, the Chinese during the Three Kingdoms period would have spoken Eastern Han Chinese alongside regional dialects such as Wu Chinese, a variation of the Chinese language which is still spoken today around modern day Shanghai and parts of southeastern China.

Villager

Military

Monk

King

AI player names[]

Sun Jian (孙坚/孫堅): A warlord general in the late Eastern Han dynasty, the founder of the Sun clan.
Sun Ce (孙策/孫策): Son of Sun Jian, known as the Lord of Jiangdong. He led the Sun clan to conquer Jiangdong.
Sun Quan (孙权/孫權): Second son of Sun Jian and founding emperor of the Wu dynasty.
Cheng Pu (程普): A general who served three generations of the Sun clan.
Ding Feng (丁奉): An important general under Sun Quan in the later period.
Gan Ning (甘宁): Originally a pirate, he later turned over a new leaf and served the Sun clan.
Huang Gai (黄盖/黃蓋): General of the Sun clan, he pretended to surrender in the Battle of Red Cliffs and used fire attacks to defeat Cao Cao's fleet.
Han Dang (韩当/韓當): General of the Sun clan.
Lü Meng (吕蒙/呂蒙): Admiral of Wu, defeated Guan Yu at the Battle of Maicheng.
Lu Xun (陆逊/陸遜): Admiral of Wu, defeated Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling.
Lu Su (鲁肃/魯肅): Advisor to Sun Quan, he promoted the formation of the Sun-Liu Alliance.
Zhang Zhao (张昭/張昭): A key figure in Wu's internal affairs, his prestige was greatly reduced following the Battle of Chibi because he advocated surrender.
Zhang Hong (张纮/張纮): Advisor of the Sun clan. Followed Sun Ce to establish a foundation.
Zhu Zhi (朱治): General of the Sun clan.

History[]

“	The story of the Wu Kingdom starts with Sun Jian, the father of the first emperor of Wu, Sun Quan. Sun Jian was a modest man, but he claimed to be descended from Sun Tzu, the famous military general and author of The Art of War. Like many of his contemporaries, Sun Jian utilized the Yellow Turban Rebellion as a way to gain a name for himself; however, it was his participation in the coalition against Dong Zhuo that solidified his reputation. Sun Jian was chosen to lead the main offensive against Dong Zhuo’s armies. He was the first to enter the abandoned capital Luoyang: the city had been razed to the ground, but Sun Jian’s men found the legendary Imperial Seal in a well. Reports of the fate of the mysterious object vary, but historians tend to believe that, despite Yuan Shao’s attempts to take the seal from Sun Jian, Sun Jian was able to escape back home with the seal. Once home, Sun Jian fell under the influence of Yuan Shao’s half brother, Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu called for Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao in the Jing Province, which led to Sun Jian’s untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. His son Sun Ce continued to serve under Yuan Shu, but his growing ambition refused to let him be satisfied. According to the Romance, in 195 CE, Sun Ce traded the Imperial Seal to Yuan Shu for elite troops and he started to gain territory south of the Yangtze River, including the Danyang, Wu, and Kuaiji commanderies. After Yuan Shu named himself emperor in 197 CE, Sun Ce turned away from his former commander and instead established an alliance with Cao Cao, who named him the General Who Exterminates Rebels. In 198 CE, Sun Ce conquered Lujiang and took over the Yuzhang territory as well. After this rapid success, Sun Ce was forced to return to Wu to suppress a rebellion led by Xu Gong and White Tiger Yan. Sun Ce successfully captured and killed Xu Gong; however, later he was attacked by some of Xu Gong’s loyal followers on a hunting trip and eventually died of his wounds. The Romance tells a different story: that Sun Ce was haunted to death by Yu Ji, a Taoist priest that Sun Ce had executed. Either way, Sun Ce died at age twenty-six, leaving his younger brother Sun Quan in charge. Sun Quan took over as commander in 200 CE. Although he was young, his military prowess and leadership skills were confirmed in a series of naval campaigns against Huang Zu, establishing his control over much of the Yangtze River. Sun Quan was then sought out by Liu Bei, who desired to form an alliance together against Cao Cao. Sun Quan accepted Liu Bei’s offer: together with their two famous strategists, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, their combined forces destroyed Cao Cao’s numerically superior navy with Wu fire-ships at Chi Bi (The Battle of Red Cliffs). Sun Quan continued to build a formidable navy, becoming the dominant navy in the middle Yangtze region. The Wu were also known for their powerful infantry. In particular, their ‘dare to die’ infantry were so fearsome that they once stripped off their armor in order to climb up to attack a Wei army: the Wei initially laughed at them, but were quickly overwhelmed by the fierce infantry. After fighting back and forth with Liu Bei over territory, Sun Quan reestablished ties to the Wei empire in 221 CE when Cao Pi named him King of Wu, a move clearly designed to punish Liu Bei for stealing Jingzhou. Sun Quan was able to reclaim the Jing province in 222 CE: after this, he quickly broke from the Wei again and re-allied with the Shu Han. Finally, in 229 CE, Sun Quan also named himself emperor, establishing the last of the Three Kingdoms. He ruled until his death in 252 CE. Sun Quan’s successors focused more on in-fighting than maintaining the Wu kingdom, and the instability caused by this quarreling left the Sun family open to conquest: under Sun Hao, the Wu kingdom was conquered by the Sima clan in 280 CE, ending the Three Kingdoms period and absorbing the territory into the Jin empire.	”
—In-game history section

Trivia[]

The Wu civilization crest depicts a "Double arc" shield (雙弧盾 - Shuang Hu Dun) emblazoned with an ancient form of the Chinese logograph 吳 (Wu). The crest features the red color, which is the common association for the Wu faction in the Dynasty Warriors franchise.
The user interface emblem of the Wu depicts a tiger belt hook from Eastern Zhou during the Warring States period.
Wu is the only civilization capable of training Battering Rams that cannot upgrade them to Capped Rams.
Wu is the only The Three Kingdoms civilization which has access to Redemption, making it the second East Asian civilization with Redemption since the Chinese lost access to it.
The Wu Castle is based on a modern-day (1936) recreation of the Chibi Castle in Chibi Town, Xianning city, Hubei province, China, which was site of the Battle of Red Cliffs during the Three Kingdoms period.
The Wu having access to fully-upgraded cavalry but mediocre archers is historically inaccurate, as the plains of the Yangtze River are ill-fitted for horse breeding, and mountainous southern China was an environment better suited to archery than horsemanship. However, the Wu in-game have lackluster Cavalry Archers.

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