
Archer
Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 2- Type: Unit
The daring frontier archer in his white shirt and crimson sash. Shoots fast, walks light; no armour, so he keeps clear of the crowd.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 2The daring frontier archer in his white shirt and crimson sash. Shoots fast, walks light; no armour, so he keeps clear of the crowd.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 2A massed arrow volley. The composite bow of wood, horn and sinew gave long range; archers trained at the Okmeydani grounds in Istanbul.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 2Volunteer light infantry raised for a campaign and unpaid in peacetime. They stood in front and opened up as the enemy closed, revealing the real line behind them.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 3Fearless volunteer vanguard of the frontier. With winged caps, axes and shields they struck fear into the enemy; their name means "reckless brave".

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 3A hunter of the palace falconry corps. The corps was exempt from tax and at its height numbered thousands of falconers.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 3Infantry fighting with the matchlock. Reloading was slow, so they fired in massed volleys from behind entrenchments and wagons.

Rarity: Common
Supply cost: 4A standing infantry corps raised from boys taken through the devsirme levy. Each company's emblem was its cauldron; the corps was abolished in 1826.

Rarity: Rare
Supply cost: 4The heavy class of siege gun. Its name comes from the German “faule Metze”, the lazy Metze, given to heavy slow cannon.

Rarity: Rare
Supply cost: 4A hand-thrown explosive. The bombardiers were organised into a corps of their own by the reform of 1729.

Rarity: Rare
Supply cost: 4Frontier raiders under the marcher lords. They drew no pay and lived on booty; riding ahead of the army, they reported the roads and the enemy.

Rarity: Rare
Supply cost: 4A sapper who mined beneath walls and blew them apart with powder. Slowed by his kegs, he hurls a lit keg at towers; the blast also hits defenders nearby.

Rarity: Epic
Supply cost: 5An inventor who, in Evliya Celebi's seventeenth-century account, strapped on wings and glided from the Galata Tower. He is the only source, and the episode is disputed.

Rarity: Epic
Supply cost: 5A wrestler of the oiled bouts. The Kirkpinar wrestling at Edirne has run since 1362 and entered the UNESCO list in 2010.

Rarity: Epic
Supply cost: 5Lagari Hasan Celebi: according to Evliya Celebi, an inventor who rose into the sky on a gunpowder rocket and came down in the sea. Here he flies in on his rocket, lands and fights with his sword.

Rarity: Epic
Supply cost: 5Elite volunteer infantry who led the first assault on the walls; the name means "one who has staked his head". Survivors were honoured with promotion and reward.

Rarity: Legendary
Supply cost: 6One of the Ottoman gun classes. Its most famous survivor was cast in 1464 and was built in two pieces joined by a screw so it could be moved.

Rarity: Legendary
Supply cost: 7Siege galley. Dropped on water it advances by sea, comes ashore to attack buildings; while at sea it also attacks the enemy Barge.

Rarity: Legendary
Supply cost: 7A heavy airship that drops bombs on buildings. When shot down, its wreckage damages everything beneath it.

Rarity: Legendary
Supply cost: 8A heavy oared warship; its thick hull and bow gun are built to press against walls. Slow, but it breaks a tower alone.