Villager

Overview

The core worker gathers resources, constructs buildings, repairs structures, and can defend itself in a pinch.

Availability and investment

Villager becomes available in Dark Age. Its listed production context is Town Center. The listed cost is 50 Food and the training time is 25 seconds. 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.

• Melee attack: 3
• Hit points: 25
• Melee armor: 0
• Pierce armor: 0
• Range: 0
• Line of sight: 4
• Reload time: 2 seconds
• Movement speed: 0.8
• Attack bonus: +6 vs stone defenses and heavy siege; +3 vs buildings

Field use

Keep this worker doing its assigned economic task; its contribution compounds over time, while taking it off work or losing it has an economic cost.

Armor classes and counters

Armor-class bonuses are separate from base attack and the target’s melee or pierce armor. The class list below shows the unit’s documented combat categories and bonus-damage relationships; use it to judge matchups instead of relying on the unit label alone.

• Villager deals +3 bonus damage to units in the All Buildings class
• Villager deals +6 bonus damage to units in the Stone Defense class
• Villager deals +6 bonus damage to units in the Heavy siege class