[ AOE2 CIVILIZATION ]
Huns
No houses, all gas — scout rush on rails, cav archer flood, Paladin-Tarkan late game.
[ IDENTIDAD ]
Huns are the archetypal cavalry-archer civilization with a pure tempo identity. Their defining bonus — starting with -100 wood but never needing to build a house — removes the single most interruptive task in the game. You never stop to check population, never waste wood on housing, never get housed by an opponent's raid. Instead that wood compounds: more farms, more ranges, earlier second TC. On top of this, Cavalry Archers are 25% cheaper in Imperial (plus a 10% cheaper tech for all stables in Castle Age), Stables work +20% faster team bonus, Trebuchets are +35% accurate, and they have Paladin, Heavy Cavalry Archer, Bloodlines, Husbandry, Plate Barding Armor — essentially every cavalry tech. Their unique unit, the Tarkan, is a raider cavalry with bonus damage vs buildings — turns a 15-minute cavalry army into a base-deleting commando unit. They lack the infantry armor upgrades, Halberdier, full siege (no Siege Onager, no Siege Ram, no Heavy Scorpion), and Hand Cannoneer — but their identity is so cavalry- centric that these gaps rarely matter. Huns want to win in Castle Age with scouts or cav archers; if the game reaches Imperial, Paladin + Heavy Cav Archer + Tarkan rolls everything.
Datos clave
⚡ Civ bonuses
Stables work +20% faster.
Do not need to build houses. Start with -100 wood (to compensate for the 5 houses most civs build at start).
No house construction ever. Starting wood -100 is amortized over the first ~4 minutes of typical farm/lumber buildout. Net over a full game: save ~500-800 wood and tons of villager-seconds.
Cavalry Archers are 25% cheaper in Imperial Age (some patch versions listed -10% Castle / -20% Imperial or similar; current DE value standardized).
Cavalry archer mass is cost-effective; allows Huns to field the largest CA army of any civ given equal economy.
Trebuchets are +35% more accurate (some patches +30%).
Huns trebuchet hits moving infantry more reliably than standard civs; helps with BBC-less siege.
Team Bonus: Stables work +20% faster.
Ambient team cavalry production boost.
- · Halberdier — Huns stop at Pikeman — significant weakness vs heavy cavalry mirrors (Paladin civs, Bulgarians' Konnik, Khmer Elephants). Camel civs especially can exploit.
- · Siege Onager — Stops at Onager — Imperial siege push is capped; no splash-clear vs massed infantry/archers behind walls.
- · Heavy Scorpion — Limits scorpion-based positional play. Not a primary Hun tool anyway, but worth noting for team siege comps.
- · Siege Ram — Stops at Capped Ram — reduces wall-break/building-clear efficiency. Tarkans compensate somewhat for building damage.
- · Hand Cannoneer — No HCC in Imperial — no gunpowder infantry answer to massed archers/skirms at range.
- · Ring Archer Armor — [VERIFY — believe Huns lack RAA, weakening their cav archers defensively]
- · Plate Mail Armor / Squires (full infantry armor) — [VERIFY] — Huns infantry is famously underwhelming; multiple armor techs missing.
- · Redemption / Block Printing — Weak monastery — no siege conversion and shorter-range monks. Monk wars lost vs full-monastery civs (Aztecs, Spanish).
- · Bombard Cannon — [VERIFY — believe Huns HAVE BBC despite missing HCC; confirm]
Tarkan
anti-building cavalry raider
- · Raze opponent's economy — burn farms, lumber camps, mining camps
- · Attack walls and towers in castle drops
- · Pair with Paladin/Knight in Imperial as anti-TC cavalry
Merodeadores
Enables Tarkan production from Stables (in addition to Castles).
When: When planning a Tarkan flood or imperial mix with Paladin + Tarkan. Skip if running pure Scout→Knight→Paladin or Scout→Cav Archer→HCA.
Ateísmo
Relic, Wonder, and King victory condition timers extended by +100 years. Wonders gain +50% HP. (Effects vary by patch — consult current tooltip.)
When: Very rarely — only in Wonder defense or Relic-race team games.
🎯 Recommended build order
Scout Rush + Transition Plan
Bracket 1300-1600Choose between continuing cav pressure or pivot to cav archer based on opponent scouting.
Alternativa
Castle Drop Forward — Opponent booming, Arabia with open center
❌ Common mistakes playing Huns
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Building a house 'just in case'
Huns don't need houses. Each house wasted = 30 wood + 25 vil-seconds. 5 houses over the game = 150 wood + loss of the signature bonus benefit.
fix:Train muscle memory: NO houses, ever. Use the key 'H' for something else if you keep hitting it.
▸Forgetting Bloodlines on reaching Castle Age
Bloodlines adds 20 HP per knight. Missing it means knights die in 1-2 extra hits and scout rush fails to transition.
fix:Bloodlines is the VERY FIRST click after Castle Age up. Forging second. Then knight production.
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Tu Huns en Arabia / Nomad / open maps generally · Scout rush pressure + knight flood → decide between continuing cav push or transitioning t...
✅ Buen scout en min 3 — vista temprana del rival
⚠️ Skipping second TC despite wood savings
→ Second TC at minute 18, even under pressure. The no-house savings fund it.
❌ Producing Cav Archers without Thumb Ring + Parthian Tactics
Next match: Scout rush pressure + knight flood → decide between continuing cav push or transitioning to Cav Archer mass based on opponent's tech choices. Imperial is Paladin + HCA + Tarkan depending on opponent composition.
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Anti-cavalry specialist; Huns have no Halberdier to mirror the trash-war trade.
Bonus damage vs cavalry; Huns cannot mirror with own camel.
Kites Huns Knights, kites Hun Cav Archers at range.
Ignores armor; Hun Paladin armor stack irrelevant.
AoE clears clumped cav archers / knights.
Hun weak monastery — conversion wars lost. Every converted knight is a 400g swing.
🗺️ Performance por mapa
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