Swordsman
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| General | |
|---|---|
| Status | In the game |
| Role | Infantry |
| Trained at | Infantry Training Grounds |
| Population | 1 |
| Train time | 24 s |
| Cost | |
| Food | 60 |
| Gold | 20 |
| Combat | |
| Hit points | 140 |
| Attack | 14 |
| Defense (armour) | 6 |
| Range | 1.5 m |
| Attack cooldown | 1.7 s |
| Damage type | Melee |
| Ranged | No |
| Can siege | No |
The Swordsman is a melee infantry unit trained at the Infantry Training Grounds. It has more hit points, attack and armour than the Spearman, and a shorter reach.
Combat
- Damage per hit: 14, before the target's armour. The target subtracts its armour from each hit, and every hit deals at least 1 (see Damage types).
- Attack cooldown: 1.7 seconds between attacks (about 8.2 damage per second before armour).
- Range: 1.5 m. Range is measured to the edge of the target, not its centre, so a unit standing against a large building is in range of it.
- Melee: a strike needs a clear line to its target. A wall segment or gate standing on the straight line between this unit and its target stops the strike, and the unit tries to approach again instead of striking through it.
- Against buildings: 25% of its damage. Only siege units (other than the Ballista) deal full damage to buildings.
- Auto-engage radius: 9 m. On the Aggressive stance, a unit looks for enemies on its own out to 9 m or its own range, whichever is larger.
- Sight: at least 15 m. Every unit sees at least its range plus 2 m, so it is never firing at something its side cannot see.
- Bonuses: as an infantry unit, its attack is raised by the owner's Combat Offense Discipline and by the melee damage bonus (infantry and cavalry share it) of the owner's Calling.
- Damage type: Melee. In the current build the damage type is a label shown on the unit panel; it does not change the damage dealt (see Damage types).
Training
- Trained at: Infantry Training Grounds.
- Cost: 60 food, 20 gold. The cost is paid when the unit is queued. Cancelling a queued or in-progress unit refunds the full cost.
- Train time: 24 seconds. Training-speed bonuses from the owner's Calling and Disciplines shorten it; no unit trains in under 0.5 seconds.
- Population: 1. Training is refused when living units plus everything already queued in all of the player's buildings, plus this unit, would pass the population cap.
- A building holds at most 5 units in its training queue.
Notes
- The Swordsman's body is also the rider of the Knight, and the donor row from which the Captain and Warden rows were first copied.