Units

Army banners for an empire's army of 5 units. The gold banner shows the army is led by the the empire's ruler. The silver banner shows the army is led by a hero. The last banner shows the army does not contain any heroes.

Army banners for a non-empire armies. The tower banner shows the army belongs to a Free City. The black skull banner shows the army belongs to a Marauder Guard. The red skull banner shows the army belongs to an Infestation.

Age of Wonders 4 features a massive amount of units that cover a wide range of uses and strengths. Most units can be recruited from all races, often granting the unit combat bonuses depending on the race's traits. To be recruited, each unit requires a certain amount of Gold, which must be paid up-front, and draft, which is paid as much as possible each turn and determines the number of turns it takes for the unit to be finished.

Type

The type of a unit gives a rough indication of its role and determines which unit enchantments it is affected by and what bonuses it gets for elite and legend rank.

Type	Common features	Elite medal	Legend medal	Awakened	Knightly Orders
Battle Mage	Repeating magic attacks. Often an offensive special ability with long range (6 ) and/or area of effect.	+10% damage.	Ignore up to 1  resistance. Ignore up to 2  status resistance.	+1  range on ranged and magic attacks. +20% accuracy.	Attacks have 60% chance of inflicting Weakened.
Fighter	Melee unit that doesn't fall into another type.	+10% damage.	+10  hp. +1  defense.	n/a	Frenzy Frenzy When this unit lands an attack, it gains a stack of Strengthened. .
Mythic	Powerful Tier IV or V unit. Doesn't benefit from most unit enchantments.	+10% damage. +1  defense. +1  resistance.	Killing Momentum (once per turn, regain 1 AP on kill).	n/a	+1 Strengthened and Regeneration on kill.
Polearm	Repeating melee attacks. First Strike First Strike When attacked, a unit with First Strike will use a Retaliation Attack to attack first. and Charge Resistance Charge Resistance Unaffected by the bonus effects of Charge attacks. Can be counteracted by using Heavy Charge Strike. . +40% damage against Cavalry Cavalry This unit is mounted on an animal. and Large Target Large Target A large unit that: Is 20% easier to hit with Physical Ranged and Magic attacks. Has Charge Resistance. Is immune to most displacement effects. Has Demolisher. .	+10% damage.	+1 retaliation attack.	+1 retaliation attack.	Attacks have 60% chance of inflicting Decaying.
Ranged	Physical ranged attack.	+10% damage.	+1  range on abilities. +20% accuracy.	+1  range on ranged and magic attacks. +20% accuracy.	Giant Slayer.
Scout	Farsight Farsight The unit has +1 vision range. or Greater Farsight Greater Farsight The unit has +2 vision range. , other abilities useful for scouting. Usually Cavalry Cavalry This unit is mounted on an animal. with a ranged attack. Only benefits from a limited selection of scout-specific unit enchantments.	+20% evasion.	Sprint ability.	n/a	n/a
Shield	Defense Mode: Shield Wall Defense Mode: Shield Wall This unit ends its turn and goes into a defensive mode: Extends its Zone of Control to all adjacent hexes. +2 Defense. +2 Resistance. Immune to Flanking. All adjacent friendly units gain +3 Defense. and Shield Defense Shield Defense This unit has +3 Defense against non- Flanking attacks. .	+1  defense.	When this unit enters Defense Mode, adjacent friendly units gain Bolstered Defense.	+1  defense. +1  resistance.	Fearless and grants Fearless to adjacent friendly units when in Defense Mode.
Shock	Single-action Charge Strike or Heavy Charge Strike, which cancel Defense Mode and retaliation attacks.	+10% damage.	+20% critical chance.	n/a	Attacks have 30% chance of inflicting Stunned.
Siegecraft	Usually only available during siege battles with the appropriate siege project or city structure. Most are immobile.	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Skirmisher	Repeating melee attack and single-action ranged or magic attack. Swift Swift This unit ignores the effects of Slowing terrain in combat. , Slippery Slippery This unit does not trigger Opportunity Attack. , usually fast movement (40  move points).	+10% damage.	Sprint ability.	n/a	+50% evasion.
Support	Single-action (usually) magic attack Defense Mode: Warding Defense Mode: Warding Ends its turn and goes into a defensive mode: Extends its Zone of Control to all adjacent hexes. +2 Defense. +2 Resistance. Immune to Flanking. All adjacent friendly units gain +3 Resistance and +3 Status Resistance. , and one or more support abilities that heal and/or buff allies.	+1  resistance.	When this unit enters Defense Mode, adjacent friendly units gain Bolstered Resistance.	Awaken Awaken Always Hits 4 Target friendly unit gains Awakened for 3 . Cannot be used when within an enemy Zone of Control. Cooldown: 1 . Base attacks have 60% chance of inflicting Distracted.	Support abilities grant +2 Bolstered Resistance.

Rank

There are 6 possible ranks for each unit (listed in order of low to high):

Rank	XP Required by Tier
	1	2	3	4	5
Recruit	-	-	-	-	-
Soldier	4	6	8	10	12
Veteran	12	18	24	30	36
Elite	24	36	48	60	72
Champion	40	60	80	100	120
Legend	80	120	160	200	240
+ hp per rank	4	6	8	10	12

Army abilities

Army abilities are unlocked by the empire skill with the same name.

• Excavation can only be used on adjacent Earthen terrain and has a chance to open up new paths, buried treasures or hidden locations.
• Road Building, when toggled on, will construct roads over hexes in friendly or neutral territory the army travels over at the cost of 3  gold per hex without road.
• Forced march restores the army's  move points at the cost of 30% of their current Hit Points and 10  mana per unit in the army.

Unit list

Units stacked together will form an army, made up of up to 6 units that will fight together in combat and move on the world map at the speed of the slowest unit in the army.

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