GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Petard breach-and-withdraw plan
Petard: Petards are expendable siege units that can quickly damage a key building or open a wall when the army needs a sudden breach. Their value comes from reaching a high-impact target, not from surviving afterward.
Overview
Petard: Petards are expendable siege units that can quickly damage a key building or open a wall when the army needs a sudden breach. Their value comes from reaching a high-impact target, not from surviving afterward.
Plan and execution
Use scouting to choose a Gate, Castle, or production building that will change the next engagement. Send the Petard under cover of the main army or a diversion, then exploit the damage immediately with units ready to enter the opening.
Risks and adaptation
Petards are easily removed before they reach a target and have little value in a normal army fight. Do not send them into open fire or spend them on a structure that the main force can already bypass.
- Focus
- One-use building siege
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies