Guardian Lion
Guardian Lion is a paired cheat unit added in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — The African Royals. Entering “the king of all beasts” at a Town Center creates a male and female lion; neither is unlocked through a civilization, age-up or technology.
Recorded values
- Training
- 600 sec · 1,000 XP per train
- Durability & mobility
- 2,022 hit points · 90% ranged resistance · 5.0 speed · 22 line of sight
- Hand attack
- 400 damage · 2.0 attack interval
- Ranged attack
- 500 damage · 4-18 range · 3.0 attack interval
Role, availability & values
The recorded profile has 2,022 hit points, 90% ranged resistance, 5.0 speed and 22 line of sight. Its melee attack deals 400 damage every 2 seconds, while Sacred Breath deals 500 at range 4–18 every 3 seconds. The listed 600-second training time and 1,000 XP per train are cheat-unit data, not a normal production cost or competitive build option.
Matchup & timing
Treat Guardian Lion as a cheat, testing or custom-scenario entry. If one appears in play, its health and attacks make it dangerous at close range and from a distance; the ranged resistance makes ordinary ranged fire inefficient. Use the profile to identify the summon rather than comparing it with a trainable civilization unit or planning a standard army around it.
Read the profile in its cheat context
The male and female models are created together, so the command summons a pair rather than placing one lion in a normal unit queue. Its long listed train time is not a research prerequisite: the cheat phrase is the access condition. In a custom scenario, the designer may control the Town Center placement and whether the command is available. These unusually high values describe that special summon and are not balance benchmarks for standard units.