Achaemenids
Civilization bonuses
- Shipyards work 15% faster
- Town Centers can be individually upgraded to be more powerful starting in the Civic Age
- Stable technologies research 50% faster
- Sparabaras (Immortals and Spearmen +2/+1 armor)
- Reed Arrows (Archers, ranged Immortals, and Galleys fire 25% faster)
- Scythed Chariots (War Chariots have increased trample radius)
- Sagaris (Cavalry deal +2 unblockable damage vs. units)
Team bonus
Houses built +100% faster
Unique unit
Unique technologies
Silk Road
250 food, 250 gold · 60sResearch Silk Road (Trade Units cost -50%)
Pavise
200 wood, 150 gold · 40sResearch Pavise (Foot Archers and Condottieri +1 melee/+1 pierce armor)
Tech tree
Achaemenids can build 122 of 523 tech-tree optionsEvery unit, building and technology in the game — solid chips are what Achaemenids can build and research, greyed-out and struck-through entries are what they can't. Hover any item for details.
Town Center
Dark Age
- Democracy
Feudal Age
Loom- Oligarchy
- Tyranny
Villager
Feudal Age
Castle Age- Defensive Satrapy
- Economic Satrapy
- Military Satrapy
Town Watch
Wheelbarrow
Imperial Age
Barracks
Dark Age
Feudal Age
Castle Age
- Baggage Carriers
Champi Warrior
Eagle Warrior
Fire Lancer
Gambesons- Guardsman
Hoplite
Long Swordsman
Pikeman
Squires- Swordsman
Imperial Age
Archery Range
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
Archer- Bowman
Skirmisher
Castle Age
Imperial Age
Arbalester
Elite Elephant Archer- Gastraphetoros
Hand Cannoneer
Heavy Cavalry Archer
Parthian Tactics- Recurve Bowman
Stable
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
Castle Age
Imperial Age
Cavalier
Elite Battle Elephant
Elite Steppe Lancer- Elite War Chariot
Heavy Camel Rider
Heavy Hei Guang Cavalry
Hussar- Imperial Cavalry
Paladin- Raider
- Shock Cavalry
Siege Workshop
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
—
Blacksmith
Monastery
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
—
Castle Age
- Amulet Protection
- Apotropaic Magic
Atonement
Devotion
Fervor- Hemlock
Herbal Medicine
Heresy
Monk- Priestess
Redemption- Sacrificial Dedication
Sanctity- Syncretism
Imperial Age
Block Printing- Exorcism
Faith- Haruspicy
Illumination- Mystery Cults
- Purification
Theocracy
University
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
—
Castle Age
Imperial Age
Castle
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
—
Castle Age
Anarchy- Andean Sling
- Atlatl
- Ballistas
- Bearded Axe
- Bimaristan
- Burgundian Vineyards
- Caciques
- Chatras
- Chieftains
- Cilician Fleet
- Circumnavigation
- Coiled Serpent Array
- Corvinian Army
- Detinets
Dii Plunderers- Eastern Settlement
- Ends of the World
- Eupseong
- First Crusade
- Fortified Bastions
- Grand Trunk Road
- Great Wall
- Greek Fire
Helot Levies- Herbalism
- Hill Forts
- Immortal
- Inquisition
- Iphicratean Tactics
- Ironclad
- Kamandaran
- Kasbah
- Kshatriyas
- Lamellar Armor
- Leaf-Headed Shafts
- Malon
- Manipur Cavalry
- Marauders
- Medical Corps
- Nomads
- Obsidian Arrows
- Odomantian Raiders
- Paiks
Petard- Red Cliff Tactics
- Reed Arrows
- Royal Heirs
- Silk Armor
- Silk Road
- Sipahi
- Sparabaras
- Steppe Husbandry
- Stirrups
- Stronghold
- Svan Towers
- Szlachta Privileges
- Taxiarchs
- Thalassocracy
- Tigui
- Tuntian
- Tusk Swords
- Vadhavadha
- Veteran Chiliarchs
- Xyphos
- Yasama
- Yeomen
Imperial Age
Arquebus- Artillery
- Atheism
- Aznauri Cavalry
- Bagains
Bessian Metalworking- Bogsveigar
- Bolt Magazine
- Butalmapu
- Chivalry
- Citadels
- Comitatenses
Conscription- Cotton Armors
- Counterweights
- Crenellations
- Cuman Mercenaries
- Curare
Delian League- Double Crossbow
- Drill
- Druzhina
- Eisphora
- Elite Immortal
- Fabric Shields
- Farimba
- Fereters
- Flemish Revolution
- Forced Levy
- Frontier Guards
- Furor Celtica
- Garland Wars
- Hauberk
Hoardings- Howdah
- Hussite Reforms
- Karda
- Kataparuto
- Krypteia
- Lechitic Legacy
- Logistica
- Maghrebi Camels
- Mahayana
- Ming-Kuang Armor
- Ordo Cavalry
- Palintonon (Packed)
- Paper Money
- Peloponnesian League
- Peltasts
- Perfusion
- Pezhetairoi
- Pirotechnia
- Recurve Bow
- Rocketry
Sappers- Sarissophoroi
- Scythed Chariots
- Shatagni
- Shinkichon
- Sitting Tiger
- Skandhavaras
Spies/Treason- Supremacy
- Thunderclap Bombs
- Timurid Siegecraft
- Torsion Engines
- Tower Shields
Trebuchet (Packed)- Vedic Teachings
- Warwolf
- Wootz Steel
Dock
Dark Age
Feudal Age
Castle Age
Shipyard
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
Mill
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
Castle Age
Imperial Age
Lumber Camp
Mining Camp
Dark Age
—
Feudal Age
Castle Age
Imperial Age
—
Market
Port
Dark Age
Feudal Age
Castle Age
Imperial Age
