Units

A unit is a movable entity that can move by the owner around the map. A unit is owned by you if you train it in it's respective structures.

An archer

There are 2 major unit types in Age of Strategy and it's series:

Ranged units
Melee units

Melee units are unit that deal on normal armor and most of them need to be next to their target to attack it. Ranged units are unit that deal on pierce armor (the only exception is axe thrower) and all of them can deal damage to an enemy from distance.

Complete Units List

Here are complete units list for each variants:

AoS
AoF
AoW

Unit Types

There are two unit types in AoS and it's variants. Those are flesh and blood units and non-flesh and blood units.

Flesh and blood unit: Consisted of living creatures like animals and humans such as swordsman, archer, knight, scout, elephant,etc. Here is a list of what flesh and blood unit can get:

Poison effect
Healed by healer units
Morale bonus
Camel Fear

Non-flesh and blood unit: Consisted of mechanical stuffs, ships, and siege weapons such as catapult, balista, warship, wagon, mantlet,etc. Here is a list of what non-flesh and blood unit can get:

Burning effect (be careful it stacks)
Can be fixed by worker
Some of them can be built by workers
Can't pass forest tile (for land units except for AoW because of it's different rules)

Cost

Cost is numbers that represent how many turns that units need to be trained and ready for duty. Costs are various for each unit types. Stronger units get more cost than weaker units. An upgraded unit's cost won't change from it's predecessors.

Bonus

Almost every units in game have specialities. Each units are trained with different skill or armed with different weapons to counter some unit types. You must decide which units to train in many occasion by looking at the bonus.

This is how bonus is calculated:

Unit's original power + (Unit's original power x bonus) = damage dealt with bonus

Counter Attack

Counter attacking is an action that can be done by almost every unit in game. Counter attacking is an attack to the attacker that was done by a unit after geting hit from a melee attacker. A unit can't counter attack a ranged unit damage, so use ranged units to hurt enemy from far away without getting counter attacked. The amount of counter attack damage that was dealt by a defending unit is the half of that unit power and do not increased by bonus.

Armor Types

There are two armor types in AoS:

Normal Armor: Hold damage dealt by melee weapons (except for axe thrower).

Pierce Armor: Hold damage dealt by ranged weapons (except for axe thrower).

Unit That Can't Enter Forest Tiles

Some units can't enter forest tiles, this including:

Chariot Archer
Chariots
Non-flesh and blood unit (the definiton of this is at the top)
Egyptian Swordsman
Egyptian Peltast
Egyptian Hero Swordsman
Nile Spearman
Egyptian Charioteer
Viking Beserker

Effects

Active Effect: Some units can give an effect to enemy units that they attacked. This kind of effects can always be removed by certain units and will wear off after some turns. Here is a list of this kind of effects:

Burning=Given by fire units such as fire archers. This effect can be stacked that make it more dangerous. You can remove this effect by fixing the unit with workers.
Poisoned=Given by poison units such as poison archer. This effect can't be stacked and can be remove by healing the unit with any healers.

Passive effect: Effect that is give by a unit in an area. This kind of effect was give automaticly by a unit and can't be removed. This effect will dissapear by itselves when you kill the unit that give the effect. Here is a list of this kind of effects:

Morale boost=+1 power to adjacent friendly units. Given by banner bearer and centurion.
Camel Fear=Decrease power of adjacent enemy units. Given by mameluke.
Drum Beat=+1 speed to adjacent friendly units. Given by drummer.

Building

Building is an action that can be done by builder units. These units are workers and labourers. To build a building:

Select a builders unit.
Touch the icon on the right or the worker again and select a yellow bricks to choose where the building or unit will be constructed.
Select a building or unit to build.
Touch the building again to build if you enable building confirmation in the game option. (skip this if you don't enable the building confirmation).

Spell Ressistance

Spell ressistance is numbers that represent how hard that unit can withstand a spell from units with abilities or spellcasters (in AoF). Spell ressistance can only work for active effects that come from enemies. Some units can convert other units. These units are healers, missionaries,priest and priestess. Higher the spell ressistance of a unit, more harder for it to be converted. Spell ressistance of 100% means this unit can't be converted. To convert a unit:

Select a converter unit.
Touch the icon on the right and select a unit you want to convert.

Carry Capacity

Some units got carry capacity. Carry capacity represents numbers of how many units that unit can store. In AoS everytime a carrier is killed units inside it will die except for one random survivors. This random survivor can be anyone or anything inside your carrier. Important Notes: A naval carrier won't drop any survivors. You can see all units inside a unit with capacity by double tap it. You can select a unit inside a carrier and move it to an empty tile to dismount it.

Flying Units

A unit type that can fly and pass any kind of terrain tiles. These units can only be effectively dealt by ranged weapons. A damage dealt by melee weapons will only reduce 1 hp to the flyers. Flying units can't enter buildings or tcs.