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Melee unique unit does not have a shield

Unique upgrades to generic units are excluded

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Unique unit does not receive full upgrades

Unique upgrades to generic units are not considered for this category. Civ must miss one or more upgrades that could apply to their unique unit.

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Castle unique unit is not directly affected by civ bonuses nor unique tech

Unique unit must be directly affected by a civ bonus unique tech, not indirectly affected by having a discounted technology apply to them.

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Category	Civs
Added in Dynasties of India expansion	4
Added in Rise of the Rajas expansion	4
Added in The African Kingdoms expansion	4
Added in The Conquerors expansion	5
Added in The Forgotten expansion	4
Added in The Last Khans expansion	4
Added in The Three Kingdoms expansion	5
Belongs to mediterrenean architechture set	8
Bombard tower is fully upgraded (monastery techs excluded)	5
Both unique techs affect same unit or building	9
Both unique techs are one word	18
Both unique techs are two words	15
Can build a tower and a town centre with the starting stone	3
Can collect multiple resource types from a single source	6
Can construct stone defenses that don't cost any stone	3
Can fully deplete a stone pile faster than a generic civ	7
Can garrison units in buildings other than town centers, castles, or towers	6
Can generate infinite resources without relics or trade in a standard game	3
Can get a building on sale	15
Can get a unit on sale	17
Can get to 20 villagers with loom and Feudal Age faster than 9:40 in-game time	8
Can go above 200 units in a standard game without conversions	6
Can have additional food on a food collection source	6
Can obtain gold without markets, trade units, gold miners, docks, relics or foxes	8
Can produce a castle unique unit from another building	4
Can produce a unique unit from somewhere other than a castle	21
Can receive a military unit without producing it	3
Can research 12 or more university techs	7
Can research 8 or fewer university techs	11
Can research a technology faster	17
Cannot build a building that all other civs can	4
Cannot upgrade archers, spearman or scout cavalry	5
Castle age unique tech costs less than 550 resources	18
Castle unique unit can have their creation speed affected by another civ's team bonus	11
Castle unique unit is a different type than the listed civ focus	18
Castle unique unit is not directly affected by civ bonuses nor unique tech	11
Castle unique unit name includes "man"	5
Castle unique unit name is 6 letters long	5
Civ bonus affects collecting salmon	5
Civ bonus affects deer meat collection in the dark age	6
Civ bonus affects land military units in the Dark Age	13
Civ bonus gives extra melee armour	7
Civ emblem contains red, white and blue	6
Civ emblem has a star	4
Civ emblem has an animal	16
Civ emblem has blue color	14
Civ emblem has green color	9
Civ emblem has more than 3 colours (like Zarks hair sometimes)	12
Civ emblem has red and green	4
Civ emblem has red color	30
Civ emblem has yellow background	8
Civ emblem is a perfect circle	23
Civ emblem is exactly two colours	14
Civ emblem is seen in one of their unique unit(s)	13
Civ emblem is symmetrical	25
Civ focus is archers (foot or mounted)	9
Civ focus is camel	3
Civ focus is cavalry	17
Civ focus is defensive	3
Civ focus is gunpowder	7
Civ focus is infantry	17
Civ focus is monk	4
Civ focus is naval	11
Civ focus is siege	4
Civ has the fastest attacking version of a non-unique unit	13
Civ name does not end with S	13
Civ name is less than 13 letters	50
Civ name starts with a B	8
Civ name starts with a T	3
Civ name starts with a vowel	5
Civ only has a single designation	23
Civ was avaliable when Zark was 12 years old	18
Does not have access to a ranged siege ship	4
Does not have access to bloodlines	16
Does not have access to bracer	8
Does not have access to Cavalry Archer	8
Does not have access to champion	12
Does not have access to fortified wall	9
Does not have access to Guard Tower	4
Does not have access to Guilds	15
Does not have access to Herbal Medicine	7
Does not have access to sanctity	8
Does not have access to Trebuchet	3
Does not start with a scout cavalry	4
Effect of civ bonus varies in different ages	26
Exploding King has a staff or umbrella	10
Fastest fully upgraded land unit is not the scout line in 1v1 games	7
Fully upgraded castle unique unit has 10 or more pierce armour	3
Fully upgraded scout cavalry line loses a 1v1 no micro fight to a fully upgraded Teuton scout cavalry	9
Fully upgraded unique unit deals no bonus damage	11
Has (boxing) villagers that are stronger or faster than the standard villager	6
Has 10 or more letters in civ name	9
Has 5 or fewer letters in its name	13
Has a "farm" civ bonus	9
Has a bald monk	24
Has a bearded monk	19
Has a bonus affecting eco unit food collecting rate	8
Has a bonus attached to all subsequent TCs	7
Has a bonus attached to the original TC specifically	9
Has a bonus or unique tech affecting building towers or outposts	8
Has a bonus or unique tech discounting a military unit	19
Has a bonus that affects building archery ranges on a neutral island	4
Has a bonus that compensates for a missing tech	17
Has a building that provides extra population space	5
Has a building with extra population space or a unique building that provides population space	6
Has a cavalry archer unique unit	8
Has a cavalry unique unit from the castle (does not include cavalry archers)	15
Has a civ bonus adding HP to units	10
Has a civ bonus affecting blacksmiths or blacksmith techs	15
Has a civ bonus affecting markets or market techs	13
Has a civ bonus affecting monasteries, monastery techs, or relics	14
Has a civ bonus affecting universities or university techs	13
Has a civ bonus has the number "20" listed	23
Has a civ bonus has the number "25" listed	19
Has a civ bonus or unique tech that affects both the spearman and skirmisher unit lines but not the scout line	6
Has a civ bonus or unique tech that affects garrisoned relics	6
Has a civ bonus or unique tech that affects monk conversion times	4
Has a civ bonus or unique tech that improves the defensive capabilities of the town center	7
Has a civ bonus that affects all military units	5
Has a civ bonus that affects all technologies	3
Has a civ bonus that affects oyster collection	7
Has a civ bonus that affects transport ships	6
Has a civ bonus, unique tech, or unit ability affecting attack speed of units	14
Has a civ bonus, unique tech, or unit ability affecting speed of units	13
Has a civ or team bonus has the number "2" listed	21
Has a collection rate bonus for villagers	9
Has a discount on a stable unit	8
Has a discounted food collection building	7
Has a female unit	50
Has a feudal age mill with a traditional windmill	21
Has a feudal age mill with a vertical windmill	13
Has a feudal age mill with a water wheel	13
Has a full blacksmith tech tree	8
Has a full castle tech tree	23
Has a full monastery tech tree	7
Has a full siege workshop tech tree	3
Has a fully upgraded castle with exactly 7028 HP	16
Has a fully upgraded unit that costs exactly 100 food	6
Has a fully upgraded unit with exactly 100 HP	12
Has a fully upgraded unit with exactly 200 HP	18
Has a generic barracks, stable, archery range, siege workshop and dock	11
Has a gunpowder unique unit	6
Has a listed gunpowder civ or team bonus	6
Has a military unit pulled by a horse	3
Has a military unit that is affected by multiple civ bonuses	26
Has a monk that celebrates Christmas	21
Has a non-siege cavalry unit with 8 or more pierce armour	5
Has a non-siege unit with bonus damage against siege armour class units	7
Has a predecessor civ in AoE1	11
Has a ranged unit that can fire multiple projectiles	16
Has a shock infantry unit	9
Has a successor in AoE3	20
Has a team bonus that affects building work rate	8
Has a team bonus that affects buildings	19
Has a team bonus that affects land gunpowder units	7
Has a team bonus that gives additional line of sight	11
Has a team bonus which grants a unique unit to allies	3
Has a trade cart pulled by a horse	22
Has a unique combination of monestary architecture and monk skin	6
Has a unique or regional naval unit or upgrade	14
Has a unique tech affecting archery range or unique archer units	26
Has a unique tech affecting cavalry	23
Has a unique tech affecting infantry	22
Has a unique tech affecting monks	5
Has a unique tech affecting ships	15
Has a unique tech affecting siege (excluding naval siege)	22
Has a unique tech affecting towers	12
Has a unique tech that does not cost gold	12
Has a unique unit that deals melee damage	38
Has a unique unit which does not have elite version	12
Has a unique unit with bonus damage vs wonders	12
Has a unit or a building that deals pass-through damage (excluding scorpion)	7
Has a unit that can remove trees	50
Has a unit that costs wood and gold	50
Has a unit that deals trample damage (excluding siege)	10
Has a unit that was introduced in 2025	8
Has a unit upgrade that costs at least 1100 food	29
Has a unit with more than 310 HP (excluding heros)	6
Has a wonder that is still standing in real life	44
Has access to 3 or more regional units	9
Has access to 3 unit lines from the barracks	12
Has access to 4 unit lines from the stable	3
Has access to 6 or more mounted units	4
Has access to a building that shoots arrows, excluding TC, Castle and Watch Tower line	5
Has access to a building with an aura	5
Has access to a mounted unit without a rider	9
Has access to a naval unique unit	5
Has access to a regional or unique gunpowder unit	9
Has access to a regional ship	10
Has access to a regional siege unit	11
Has access to a stable but not husbandry	3
Has access to a unique or regional building	9
Has access to a unique siege unit	6
Has access to a unique upgrade to a generic unit	8
Has access to a unit that deals melee damage from range	10
Has access to all generic "heavy" units	11
Has access to an infantry unit with 7 or more pierce armour	9
Has access to an infantry unit without bonus damage versus shock infantry (excluding militia)	12
Has access to arbalests without thumb ring	9
Has access to arson, gambesons and squires	22
Has access to blast furnace	43
Has access to bloodlines, gambesons, and thumb ring	6
Has access to bombard cannon	25
Has access to bombard cannons but not bombard towers	11
Has access to bombard cannons but not cannon galleons	3
Has access to bombard tower	17
Has access to bombard towers but not bombard cannons	3
Has access to both hand cannoneers and bombard cannons	19
Has access to bracer	42
Has access to camel units other than Camel Rider or Heavy Camel Rider	6
Has access to cannon galleon but not bombard cannons	14
Has access to champions without gambesons	17
Has access to champions without squires	3
Has access to devotion	50
Has access to elephants	9
Has access to elite cannon galleon	20
Has access to exactly 1 of hussar, elite skirmisher, and halberdier	4
Has access to exactly 2 of hussar, elite skirmisher, and halberdier	25
Has access to fast fire ship	33
Has access to fully upgraded heavy cavalry archer except parthian tactics	6
Has access to halberdier	38
Has access to hand cannoneers	23
Has access to heavy cavalry archer	33
Has access to heavy cavalry archer without bloodlines	8
Has access to heavy demo ship	26
Has access to heavy demo ship, fast fire ship, and galleon	13
Has access to heavy scorpion	33
Has access to Hussar	28
Has access to hussar without bloodlines	6
Has access to hussar, elite skirmisher, and halberdier	21
Has access to Paladin	10
Has access to parthian tactics	15
Has access to parthian tactics and redemption	7
Has access to plate barding armour	34
Has access to Redemption	28
Has access to shipwright	24
Has access to siege onager	13
Has access to siege ram	27
Has access to Steppe Lancer	5
Has access to technology, unit or building one age earlier	8
Has access to Treadmill Crane	30
Has access to unique unit that can benefit from upgrades or civ bonuses after being converted by a monk	5
Has an archer unique unit from the castle (including cavalry archers)	13
Has an archer unit with 100% base accuracy	3
Has an infantry unique unit from the castle	19
Has an infantry unit with 5 or more melee armour	15
Has architechture, fortified wall, and hoardings	15
Has bombard cannons that are affected by a civ bonus or unique tech and lack siege engineers	5
Has civ bonuses or unique techs that affect Scout Cavalry line and monks	6
Has discounted stone defenses	4
Has exactly two unique units (excluding unit upgrades)	14
Has more upgrades from the archery range for the Cavalry Archer line than for the Archer line	8
Has multiple unique units with elite versions	6
Has multiple unique units, not including unique upgrades	18
Has no dark age eco bonus	13
Has no dark or feudal age military bonus	3
Has regenerating units	10
Has the eastern european architecture set	6
Has unique tech that explicitly affects your teammates or opponents	3
Imperial age research and building requirement cost is 2150 or fewer total resources	7
Imperial age unique tech costs less than 1000 total resources	15
Infantry unit has base 2 pierce armour, 0 melee armour, and 0 range	5
Is one of Zarks top 10 most played civs in 1v1 ranked matches	10
Is one of Zarks top 10 most played civs in 1v1 tourney matches	9
Lacked a campaign when originally introduced	14
Melee unique unit does not have a shield	18
Melee unique unit has a shield	22
Misses a unit upgrade or technology that every other civ has	11
Misses an entire standard unit line without direct replacement	13
Misses both gambesons and siege engineers	13
Misses both redemption and hand cannons	16
Misses both thumb ring and bloodlines	7
Misses exactly one dock tech	13
Misses only one monastery tech	7
Misses two or more imperial age blacksmith upgrades	13
Monk does not carry a book nor scroll	26
Non-unique unit has more attack than a standard civ	13
Non-unique unit has more melee armour than a standard civ	14
Number of trainable land trash military units is not 3	8
Original AoE2: Age of Kings civ	13
Population max starts above 45 on Fortress	4
Receives a technology for free	15
Receives a technology for free upon reaching castle age	14
Receives a technology for free upon reaching feudal age	10
Receives a technology for free upon reaching imperial age	9
Receives an eco tech for free	4
Receives free resources	14
Shares a unit upgrade or building with exactly one other civ	6
Shares voice line audio with another civ	12
Team bonus does not apply to all non-American civs	13
Team bonus provides additional food	4
Town centre can spawn units without producing them	8
Unique tech adds a blast radius	6
Unique tech adds HP to units	7
Unique tech affects 4 or more unit lines	16
Unique tech affects building work speed	3
Unique tech changes the cost of buildings or units	8
Unique tech costs exactly 200 of a single resource	14
Unique tech gives extra melee armour	10
Unique tech gives HP regeneration	6
Unique tech gives the opponent a notification when researched	3
Unique tech name has been changed since their addition	10
Unique tech or bonus affects trebuchets	14
Unique tech specifically mentions a unit line for which the civ misses the final unit-line upgrade	6
Unique tech starts with a B	7
Unique unit begins with the word "war"	3
Unique unit does not have a human visible	10
Unique unit does not receive full upgrades	21
Unique unit has 15 or more letters in its name (excluding elite prefix)	8
Unique unit has a beard	16
Unique unit has bonus damage against itself (excluding naval unique units)	7
Unique unit is a "warrior"	4
Unique unit is barechested	6
Unique unit starts with a B	3
Unit fires exactly two projectiles	3
Unit has 2(.00) attack modes	9
Unit has a charge attack	10
Unit moves faster than a standard counterpart	8
Unupgraded archer can survive more shots from a skirmisher than a generic civ	5
Was available before HD edition	18
Was introduced in 2025	5
Was played in a deciding game of an S-Tier tourney in 2025	9
Was played in T90 Titans League Season 4 Final	8
Was played in the 7Ps league season 7	50
Was played in the epic Zark vs Hera match	4
Was played in the Hidden Cup V finals or semi-finals	19
Was played in the Warlords IV Final	12
Watch tower line is fully upgraded (monastery techs excluded)	5
Wonder is located in a modern country that has 2 or more wonders	22
Zark thinks their UU looks cool	16

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Melee unique unit does not have a shield

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Can collect multiple resource types from a single source

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Unique unit does not receive full upgrades

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Castle unique unit is not directly affected by civ bonuses nor unique tech

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Both unique techs are one word

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Has access to arson, gambesons and squires

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