Age of Mythology TRL - Engineer

The Engineer is a weak but cheap unit whose role is to construct all your buildings for your town, including the resource drop sites. The only other unit that can build anything are the civilians and they can only build farms. However, Engineers can build 3 times faster than Greek villagers. They can also defend themselves fairly well as they are armed with a hammer but should never make up the bulk of an army. It is best to keep a few of them to expand your town and construct forward bases on the map.
Jupiter's engineers are also equipped with a crossbow to hunt wild animals.

Age: Archaic
Trained at: Town Center / Civilian

Statistics

Cost: 40   20  
Population: 2
Hack Damage: 3
Pierce Damage: 6 (vs. wild animals, Jupiter only)
Range: 16 (vs. wild animals)
Hitpoints: 100
Hack Armor: 10%
Pierce Armor: 25%
Crush Armor: 99%
Speed: 4.8 meters/second
Line of Sight: 15 meters
Training Time: 14 seconds

Improvements

Armory technologies
 Copper/Bronze/Iron Weapons: +10% attack
 Copper/Bronze/Iron Mail: -10% hack vulnerability
 Copper/Bronze/Iron Shields: -10% pierce vulnerability

Worship Jupiter to gain this bonus:
Can gather food, wood and gold but at a rate 10% slower than civilians

Worship Mars to access this technology:
 Aqueduct: trains 5% faster

Worship Janus to access this technology:
 Ouroboros: -5% hack and pierce vulnerability

Worship Fortuna to access this technology:
 Steam of Avernus: +20% movement speed, +20% HP and can repair buildings at the following rate: (resource cost * missing HP) / (total HP * 4).

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History:
TBA

Trivia:
 The engineer was originally going to be a unit called Velite that was a fast-moving spear-throwing archer unit. As a matter of fact, all infantry and archer units were going to be able to construct buildings. This idea was eventually dropped as it was too similar to the Norse civilization. Instead, a single unit had the sole responsibility to expand your town. The engineer was also originally going to be an archer that attacks with a crossbow but was instead made a melee unit due to the excessive number of archers in the roman civilization (although Jupiter's Engineers still retain the ranged attack vs. animals). The engineer was inspired by  's suggestions.


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