Civ Overview - Siamese feature - Dharma Expansion mod for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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Siam - now Thailand - has a long and storied history. A beautiful and mysterious land of dark forests and ancient mountains, Siam has seen occupation and revolution, flood and famine, and the rise and fall of empires. Command the army of elephants to defeat the mighty Burmese and Khmer Empires and establish your supreme reign.

Posted by Juggernaut8704 on Jun 8th, 2023

"Siam - now Thailand - has a long and storied history. A beautiful and mysterious land of dark forests and ancient mountains, Siam has seen occupation and revolution, flood and famine, and the rise and fall of empires. Command the army of elephants to defeat the mighty Burmese and Khmer Empires and establish your supreme reign."

Overview

The Siamese are a civ with Defensive playstyle. All your techs (not age ups) at town center grant you a free villager thus you should consider researching them as soon as they are available. They get to recruit fully upgradable Barrack and Archery Range units. Their towers deal bonus damage against cavalry and that too with faster moving projectiles. To add to this synergy they get to recruit unique unit Daab Ngao that pins down nearby enemies by slowing them down thus opening a greater time window for you to hitting them with other units. This might even help monks to convert enemies easier. Being a good team player you get to research Phrai Luang making the unique unit from castle for you and your allies cheaper by 10% and this stacks up if there are more allied Siamese players. To add to the scare of enemies the Siamese are also able to upgrade their Battle Elephants into Imperial Status which effectively wipes the enemies already pinned down. The famous Ayutthayan tactics of Rattanakosin Formation makes your spearmen have +20 HP. The Siamese relied heavily on foreign mercenaries for handling their gunpowder thus you are able to recruit handcannoneers at no food cost only a little bit of extra gold cost. Lacking siege rams and siege engineers might be a bit hard for you to bring down enemy buildings but the Siamese get extra attack from their mighty elephant units against enemy buildings for their team. A truly elephantastic game.