Rise of Rome - units

	Unit	?	Age	Cost	Upgrade cost	HP	Damage	Range	Armor	Speed	Train at
	Armored Elephant	E	Iron	170 40	1000 1200	600	18 + Siegecraft	2	1 piercing	slow	Stables

Description: Finally the little villagers in the game figured out that armoring elephants is a good idea ;) Seriously, this upgrade removes the biggest weakness of the War Elephant (having no armor at all to start with). Now you can upgrade your elephants up to 8 armor, as opposed to 6 before. The Armored Elephant also has Siegecraft, more attack strength, and piercing armor. Get ready to rumble ;)

	Unit	?	Age	Cost	Upgrade cost	HP	Damage	Range	Armor	Speed	Train at
	Camel Rider	?	Bronze	70 60	-	125	6 [+4 .. 8]	-	-	fast	Stables

Description: +8 attack vs. cavalry, Scout, Horse Archer; +4 attack vs. chariots - this makes the camel a good counter against cavalry rushes. Of course there are other units that are stronger than cavalry units, but they are too slow for following the cavalry. Now defensive players have a much better chance. Maybe the attackers come now with camels, too :)

Unit

Age

Cost

Upgrade cost

Damage

Range

Armor

Speed

Train at

fire rate

Fire Galley

Iron

135

(War galley needed)

200

fast

Dock

1/1s

Description: Fire Galleys take +10 damage from Ballista and Helepolis, +15 damage from other Stone Throwers, Catapults, Heavy Catapults, Catapult Triremes, and Juggernaughts. However, they are stronger than Triremes in short range naval battle. They are the "melee unit of the sea" :) and will revive sea battles, and area that was not too popular in the original version of AoE. Alchemy gives them a whopping +6 damage! With their fast fire rate (1 shot/second, 5 times faster than Juggernaughts), they will probably become key units in sea battles. Note that this unit is disabled with the option "full techtree" chosen.

	Unit	?	Age	Cost	Upgrade cost	HP	Damage	Range	Armor	Speed	Train at
	Scythe Chariot	?	Iron	40 60	1200 800	120	9	2	-	fast	Stables

Description: +7 attack vs. Priest. Scythed wheels damage adjacent enemy units. The Nobility upgrade is needed for them. Seems to be a very expensive upgrade for me if I look at the stats only. The scythed wheels will make a differnence, though - I cannot wait to see them maiming through villagers :>

	Unit	?	Age	Cost	Upgrade cost	HP	Damage	Range	Armor	Speed	Train at
	Slinger	?	Tool	40 10	-	25	2 [+2]	4	+2 piercing	slow	Barracks

Description: +2 attack against archers; increased attack against walls and towers. Stone mining gives them a +1 attack and range bonus, as does the Heavy Catapult upgrade. They are cheaper than archers, yet they win against archers in hand to hand combat; against Axemen, though, they will lose. This makes them a good defensive unit, countering early archer attacks.

There are detailed historic descriptions of each unit available at Microsoft's Rise of Rome page. You will not find them here, because I did not want to copy other pages. The descriptions have been taken from that page, though, because I do not have the expansion yet :)

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