Royal Tercios

Unit Information

Game Strategies

History

In the Extended Edition, this unit/building is affected by a damage bug. Missing +20% damage vs Heavy Cavalry.

Royal Tercios
Spanish Unique Heavy Infantry(Replaces Fusiliers)
Base cost	60 Food 50 Metal
Ramping cost	1 Food 1 Metal
Build time	12 seconds (188 frames)
Hit points	200
Line of sight	10 tiles
Movement speed	25 (2 tiles/second)
Attack strength	20
Attack range	0-6 tiles
Attack speed	44 frames
Armor	4
Population points
Built at	Barracks
Prerequisites	Enlightenment Age
Hotkey (Barracks)	H
Upgrades from	Tercios
Upgrades to	Anti-tank Rifle

Royal Tercios are the Spanish unique Heavy Infantry of the Enlightenment Age that replaces the standard Fusiliers.

Overview

Compared to Fusiliers, Royal Tercios have an attack speed of 44 frames (compared to 32), but do +30% damage against units and buildings, plus an additional +80% damage against both Light and Heavy Cavalry, and +10% damage against Ranged Cavalry.

These changes make them devastating effective against enemy melee cavalry, even compared to the already-powerful Fusiliers which they replace. Against most other targets, Royal Tercios' higher damage but less frequent attacks will result in higher DPS against targets that have a non-trivial amount of armor, and comparable damage against targets that don't (compared to Fusiliers).

Trivia

• Tercio ("third") is an infantry organization used by Habsburg Spain which consists up to 3,000 soldiers made up of pikemen, swordsmen, arquebusiers and musketeers.

See also

• Gun Samurai