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Lynx

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UNIT · NORTHERN EUROPE

Lynx

A wildlife unit added with The Viking Sagas. The lynx is a map creature, not a standard military unit produced from a building.

Lynx image for Age of Empires II
Lynx image for Age of Empires II

Overview

A wildlife unit added with The Viking Sagas. The lynx is a map creature, not a standard military unit produced from a building.

Availability and investment

Lynx becomes available in The Viking Sagas. It is associated with Northern Europe (Wildlife). The listed cost is not separately recorded and the training time is not separately recorded. This tells you when it can first join an army and which resources must be reserved alongside Villager production, upgrades, and other military lines.

    Combat profile

    The available combat values are included here so the numbers can be read as a profile rather than an isolated list. Hit points and armor describe how long the unit can remain exposed; attack and any bonus damage describe what it threatens; range, reload, accuracy, and movement describe how reliably it can engage or disengage. A value shown for a whole upgrade line applies to the listed stages as recorded, so compare the stage names instead of treating the line as one base unit.

    Field use

    Use the listed role, range, movement, and class bonuses to choose a favorable fight; the same unit can be valuable as a screen or specialist even when it is not the army’s main damage source.

    Battlefield role and use

    A wildlife unit added with The Viking Sagas. The lynx is a map creature, not a standard military unit produced from a building. This is a map entity rather than an ordinary production choice. Its food, herd, or threat role depends on where it spawns and how nearby Villagers interact with it.

    Base unit statistics

    HitPoints
    25
    LineOfSight
    12
    Behavior
    Predator; added with The Viking Sagas

    Base values before civilization bonuses or researched technologies.

    Also known as
    Lynx
    Focus
    Wildlife
    Signature / category
    Wildlife
    Release / context
    The Viking Sagas
    Region
    Northern Europe
    Classification
    Wildlife
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