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The army's 19 cards

You build your deck from 8 cards chosen out of these 19. Cards are grouped by rarity; each shows its supply cost, type and a short description.

Common · Rare · Epic · Legendary

Common 7

  • 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.

  • Arrow Storm

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 2
    • Type: Spell

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

  • Azab

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 2
    • Type: Unit

    Volunteer 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.

  • Deli Raiders

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 3
    • Type: Unit

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

  • Falconer

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 3
    • Type: Unit

    A hunter of the palace falconry corps. The corps was exempt from tax and at its height numbered thousands of falconers.

  • Musketeer

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 3
    • Type: Unit

    Infantry fighting with the matchlock. Reloading was slow, so they fired in massed volleys from behind entrenchments and wagons.

  • Janissary

    • Rarity: Common
    • Supply cost: 4
    • Type: Unit

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

Rare 4

  • Balyemez

    • Rarity: Rare
    • Supply cost: 4
    • Type: Building

    The heavy class of siege gun. Its name comes from the German “faule Metze”, the lazy Metze, given to heavy slow cannon.

  • Grenade

    • Rarity: Rare
    • Supply cost: 4
    • Type: Spell

    A hand-thrown explosive. The bombardiers were organised into a corps of their own by the reform of 1729.

  • Raider

    • Rarity: Rare
    • Supply cost: 4
    • Type: Unit

    Frontier 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.

  • Sapper

    • Rarity: Rare
    • Supply cost: 4
    • Type: Unit

    A 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.

Epic 4

  • Glider

    • Rarity: Epic
    • Supply cost: 5
    • Type: Unit

    An 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.

  • Grand Wrestler

    • Rarity: Epic
    • Supply cost: 5
    • Type: Unit

    A wrestler of the oiled bouts. The Kirkpinar wrestling at Edirne has run since 1362 and entered the UNESCO list in 2010.

  • Lagari

    • Rarity: Epic
    • Supply cost: 5
    • Type: Unit

    Lagari 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.

  • Serdengecti

    • Rarity: Epic
    • Supply cost: 5
    • Type: Unit

    Elite 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.

Legendary 4

  • Shahi Cannon

    • Rarity: Legendary
    • Supply cost: 6
    • Type: Unit

    One 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.

  • Land Galley

    • Rarity: Legendary
    • Supply cost: 7
    • Type: Unit

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

  • Zeppelin

    • Rarity: Legendary
    • Supply cost: 7
    • Type: Unit

    A heavy airship that drops bombs on buildings. When shot down, its wreckage damages everything beneath it.

  • Barge

    • Rarity: Legendary
    • Supply cost: 8
    • Type: Unit

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