Units

This page lists every unit that can be trained in the current build of Dawn of Embers, with its balance numbers. Each unit has its own page with more detail.

Units are trained at buildings. A building holds up to 5 units in its training queue; the cost is paid when a unit is queued, and cancelling refunds it in full. Training is refused when the player's population (living units plus everything already queued) would pass the population cap. See Population.

Reading the numbers

• HP is maximum hit points.
• Attack is damage per hit before armour. Defense is flat armour: it is subtracted from every hit the unit takes, and every hit deals at least 1. See Damage types.
• Range is in metres (the game data stores distances in Unreal units, 100 to a metre). It is measured to the edge of the target.
• Cooldown is the time between attacks.
• * Attack per second is Attack divided by Cooldown, worked out for this table. It is before armour, the attacker's bonuses and the building rule below.
• Pop is the population the unit uses.
• Only siege units (role Siege, or Can siege = Yes) deal full damage to buildings, and the Ballista is an exception. Every other unit deals 25% of its damage to buildings.
• The damage type is shown on the unit panel but does not change damage in the current build.

All units

Unit	Trained at	Role	HP	Attack	Defense	Range (m)	Cooldown (s)	Attack per second*	Train time (s)	Cost	Pop	Damage type	Ranged	Can siege
Male Villager	Town Hall	Villager	60	4	0	1.2	2	2.0	12	50 food	1	None	No	No
Female Villager	Town Hall	Villager	60	4	0	1.2	2	2.0	12	50 food	1	None	No	No
Swordsman	Infantry Training Grounds	Infantry	140	14	6	1.5	1.7	8.2	24	60 food, 20 gold	1	Melee	No	No
Spearman	Infantry Training Grounds	Infantry	110	11	4	1.8	1.9	5.8	20	50 food, 20 wood	1	Melee	No	No
Shortbowman	Archers Training Grounds	Ranged	80	9	1	10	1.8	5.0	20	40 food, 20 leather	1	Ranged	Yes	No
Longbowman	Archers Training Grounds	Ranged	85	12	1	21	2.2	5.5	26	50 food, 30 leather	1	Ranged	Yes	No
Crossbowman	Archers Training Grounds	Ranged	95	15	2	12	2.6	5.8	28	50 food, 20 gold, 25 leather	1	Ranged	Yes	No
Knight	Stable	Cavalry	200	18	8	1.5	1.8	10.0	34	80 food, 40 gold	2	Melee	No	No
Lancer	Stable	Cavalry	170	22	5	2	2.4	9.2	32	70 food, 30 gold	2	Melee	No	No
Cavalry Archer	Stable	Cavalry	130	11	3	11	2.2	5.0	34	60 food, 40 gold, 20 leather	2	Ranged	Yes	No
Battering Ram	Siege Workshop	Siege	300	8	10	1.2	3.5	2.3	40	50 gold, 150 wood	3	Siege	No	Yes
Catapult	Siege Workshop	Siege	120	10	1	9	5	2.0	45	75 gold, 150 wood	3	Siege	Yes	Yes
Trebuchet	Siege Workshop	Siege	110	12	1	12	7	1.7	60	150 gold, 200 wood, 50 stone	3	Siege	Yes	Yes
Ballista	Siege Workshop	Siege	130	25	2	8	3	8.3	40	60 gold, 150 wood	3	Siege	Yes	Yes
Fire Mage	Wizards Training Grounds	Mage	70	18	1	9	3	6.0	35	60 food, 60 gold, 40 fibre	2	Fire	Yes	No
Water Mage	Wizards Training Grounds	Mage	80	15	2	8	3	5.0	35	60 food, 60 gold, 40 fibre	2	Water	Yes	No
Earth Mage	Wizards Training Grounds	Mage	95	14	3	7.6	3.2	4.4	35	60 food, 60 gold, 40 fibre	2	Earth	Yes	No
Lightning Mage	Wizards Training Grounds	Mage	65	17	1	11	2.8	6.1	35	60 food, 60 gold, 40 fibre	2	Lightning	Yes	No
Trade Cart	Trading Hub	Support	120	0	2	0	0	-	25	50 gold, 100 wood	1	None	No	No
Fishing Ship	Fishing Docks	Support	150	0	2	0	0	-	30	75 wood	1	None	No	No
Trade Ship	Fishing Docks	Support	180	0	2	0	0	-	35	50 gold, 100 wood	1	None	No	No
Transport Ship	Military Docks	Support	220	0	4	0	0	-	35	125 wood	1	None	No	No
War Galley	Military Docks	Ranged	250	20	5	6	2.5	8.0	50	75 gold, 175 wood	2	Ranged	Yes	No
Cannon Ship	Military Docks	Siege	200	30	5	9	5	6.0	60	150 gold, 200 wood	3	Siege	Yes	Yes
Captain	Stronghold	Infantry	260	20	8	1.5	1.7	11.8	45	150 food, 200 gold	1	Melee	No	No
Warden	Stronghold	Infantry	320	24	12	1.5	2	12.0	50	120 food, 150 gold, 80 stone	3	Melee	No	No

By training building

Town Hall

Male Villager, Female Villager

Infantry Training Grounds

Swordsman, Spearman

Archers Training Grounds

Shortbowman, Longbowman, Crossbowman

Stable

Knight, Lancer, Cavalry Archer

Siege Workshop

Battering Ram, Catapult, Trebuchet, Ballista

Wizards Training Grounds

Fire Mage, Water Mage, Earth Mage, Lightning Mage

Trading Hub

Trade Cart

Fishing Docks

Fishing Ship, Trade Ship

Military Docks

Transport Ship, War Galley, Cannon Ship

Stronghold

Captain, Warden

By role

Villager

Workers: gather, build and repair. Villager

Infantry

Foot soldiers who fight in melee. Swordsman, Spearman, Captain, Warden

Ranged

Units whose role is Ranged. The Cavalry Archer fights at range but its role is Cavalry. Shortbowman, Longbowman, Crossbowman, War Galley

Cavalry

Mounted units, faster than foot units. Knight, Lancer, Cavalry Archer

Siege

Engines and the Cannon Ship. Siege units deal full damage to buildings, except the Ballista. Battering Ram, Catapult, Trebuchet, Ballista, Cannon Ship

Mage

Spellcasters. One role for all four elements; the element is the damage type. Fire Mage, Water Mage, Earth Mage, Lightning Mage

Support

Units with no attack: traders, the fishing ship and the transport. Trade Cart, Fishing Ship, Trade Ship, Transport Ship

The role decides which Calling damage bonus a unit receives: Infantry and Cavalry get the melee bonus, Ranged the ranged bonus, Mage the mage bonus. Siege, Support and Villager units get no Calling damage bonus.

Unique units

The Stronghold trains two units with limits:

• Captain: one per player, alive or queued. If the Captain dies, a new one can be trained after 120 seconds. Your own and allied units near the Captain get +10% attack and take 10% less damage.
• Warden: at most five per player, alive or queued.

Story-only units

The game data also holds units that appear only in story missions and cannot be trained in a skirmish. Their numbers are not in the balance spreadsheet, so they are not listed here.

• Scholar: a non-combatant escorted in a story mission.
• Kingdom Swordsman, Kingdom Knight, Kingdom Longbowman: enemy-side units of a story mission, with the same numbers as the shared Swordsman, Knight and Longbowman when they were added.
• The King and his two courtyard guards: owned by the player but not selectable and not fighters, and they use no population.

Planned

• The Transport Ship carrying land units: no code for it was found; the ship moves but does not carry units.