History Characters / AgeOfEmpiresII

* DirtyCoward: Bleda challenges Attila to hunt the "Iron Boar." has Archers hidden in the map where the boar hunt takes place. If Attila decides to betray Bleda, the Archers will testify against him to the rest of the Hun army. If Attila saves Bleda from the Boar

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Not so awesome considering that Tenochtitlan has been wracked with warfare.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Jaguar Warrior armed with a very high attack during the fourth scenario of the campaign is implied to be Cuauhtemoc. He is the sole unit you begin the scenario with and recruits other soldiers to eventually retake Tenochtitlan.

* AnnoyingArrows: Huskarls have high pierce armor for flesh and blood units, which means that arrows from an archer or a tower only do 1 damage to them. With full upgrades, it takes 70 arrows to take down an Elite Huskarl.

* ACommanderIsYou: Mostly the ''Brute Force Faction''. Their buildings are the weakest in the game and they lack cavalry, but they can create all of their military units faster and they have a technology that gives their frail Infantry +4 attack. The are not completely GlassCannons because for every Monastery technology they research, their Monks gain +5 HP. ''Technical Faction''.

* FragileSpeedster: In terms of military force: their forte are Plumed Archers and Eagle Warriors, which are both good for HitAndRunTactics.

* StoneWall: Have some of the toughest buildings in the game, and they're summed up as a "Defensive Civilization" in the in-game tech tree.

* ACommanderIsYou: Definitely an ''Elitist Faction''. They lack the full upgrades for the cheap Spearmen and Skirmishers and must rely on gold intensive units like Jannisaries. ''
* MoreDakka: Have the best gunpowder units in the game, and get all gunpowder-related technologies free.

* ACommanderIsYou: Mostly the ''Brute Force Faction''. Their buildings are the weakest in the game and they lack cavalry, but they can create all of their military units faster and they have a technology that gives their frail Infantry +4 attack. They do, however, get Monks with ridiculously high HP giving them traits of the ''Technical Faction''.

* ThePaladin: Theirs are among the strongest in the game.

* ACommanderIsYou: They are definitely an ''Elitist Faction'' that relies on units with a high gold cost, especially Knights, Conquistadors, Monks, Bombard Cannons, and Bombard Towers. They are also the closest thing to an ''Industrial Faction'' in Age of Empires 2, as their villagers create buildings faster and one can infer that creating gunpowder weapons requires machine knowhow.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Despite appearing several times as villains, they're never playable, in a campaign, except for the Azincourt Scenarion in ''Conqueros''.

* TheGhost.

* MightyGlacier: Compared to the Aztecs they have better defensive buildings.

* ACommanderIsYou: ''Elitist Faction'' for sure. They do not have access to many strong, cheap units like the Arbalest, the Champion, or even the Two-Handed Swordsmen. They rely almost entirely on their cavalry.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation:

!!!Mayans

* ACommanderIsYou: Interestingly, the Saracens seem to fall under ''The Ranger Faction'' as their strongest and most important units tend to be ranged. Arbalests, Cavalry Archers, Mamelukes, Siege Onagers, Bombard Cannons, Monks, Trebuchets, and even Galleons. In the 6th and final Barbarossa scenario, Saladin makes good use of this fact with an army of exclusively ranged units with only a couple of Heavy Camels to start the scenario. This is quite excruciating because the player uses the Teutons who are the slow and methodical civilization.

*** LightningBruiser: The Persian unique technology can bring them up to this level
** WeaksauceWeakness: Very easily converted by Monks.

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* ZergRush: The Goths lack the powerful [[ThePaladin Paladin]] and the ranged [[ArcherArchetype Arbalest]], and their Infantry don't even get the final armor upgrade. Instead, their Infantry are 25% cheaper than everybody else's and their [[ConstructAdditionalPylons Barracks]] churn out those Infantry 20% faster. Later on in the game, they are the only civilization who can create their unique unit from the cheap Barracks as opposed to the costly Castle and they can churn out Infantry 50% faster!

* HorseArcher: Out of all the civs, the Huns get the cheapest Cavalry Archers to the point that they are negligibly costlier than regular foot Archers. In real life of course, the majority of the Hun army was on horseback.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Minus the first part, this is generally their MO in their campaign. Their unique unit is a horse mounted raider armed with a flaming brand, particularly effective against buildings.

* TheTeutonicKnights: Their Unique Unit no less.

* EverythingBetterWithSamurai: Almost literally, Samurai get attack bonuses against all other unique units.
* GratuitousEnglish: Their unique technology, which makes Tre

* ZergRush: The Goths lack the powerful [[ThePaladin Paladin]] and the ranged [[TheArcher Arbalest]], and their Infantry don't even get the final armor upgrade. Instead, their Infantry are 25% cheaper than everybody else's and their [[ConstructAdditionalPylons Barracks]] churn out those Infantry 20% faster. Later on in the game, they are the only civilization who can create their unique unit from the cheap Barracks as opposed to the costly Castle and they can churn out Infantry 50% faster!

* TheArcher: The Saracens and Japanese are the only civs to get every technology from the Archery Range.

* TheArcher: Longbowman, natch.

* Mongolia

* Mayincatec: Subverted in that the Aztecs and Mayans are two different civilizations with different actual sound clips of their languages and completely different playstyles.

* Mayaincatec: Subverted in that the Aztecs and Mayans are two different civilizations with different actual sound clips of their languages and completely different playstyles.

* TheKnightsHospitaller: Also used to represent the Hospitallers.

* Ireland: "Celts" is used as an all-encompassing term to represent Scotland AND Ireland. Even though Celtic campaign is about William Wallace and the First Scottish War of Independance, their Wonder is the Rock of Cashel, a fortress-church in Ireland.

* Scotland

* AnAxetoGrind: Frankish Throwing Axemen use these, combined with ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks. In-game, they are huge but the real life Frankish Axe Throwers would throw smaller hatchets.

* TheArcher: The Saracens and Japanese are the only civs to get every technology from the Archery Range.

* ZergRush: \ The Goths lack the powerful [[ThePaladin Paladin]] and the ranged [[TheArcher Arbalest]], and their Infantry also do not get the final armor upgrade. Instead, their Infantry are 25% cheaper than everybody else's and their [[ConstructAdditionalPylons Barracks]] churn out those Infantry 20% faster. Later on in the game, they are the only civilization who can create their unique unit from the cheap Barracks as opposed to the costly Castle and they can churn out Infantry 50% faster!