Dharma Expansion mod for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

"Often called the roof of the world, the plateau of Tibet hosts the mighty Tibetans. In the cold, hostile environment of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia and the Himalayas these tough Warriors were born to make the world bow before them. Lead the Tibetan people to either war and conquest, or build a vibrant civilization. Build an empire with your armored cavalry and monks and establish history within Central Asia and the Himalayas. "

Overview

The Tibetans have a very unorthodox style of gameplay with Cavalry Focus. The longer the game is stretched, the harder it gets, as the civ finds it rather hard to find supplies of food to support its army. The Tibetans are unable to research any mill techs for their farms in its hostile environment. They rely on a constant supply of Yaks from their Mill that is recruitable every 100 seconds for every Town Center you own. As the enemy economy grows, you might have to rely on stealing some of enemy farms to help your economy. You are able to train monks and monasteries one age earlier thus making Relic rush and Monk rush very viable options. All your houses spawn one berry bush every age up. In castle age you can research Dzongs which allows you to recruit villagers from Castles. Your unique unit Zimchongpa is an incredible unit in the sense that it can take down enemy cavalry very fast, especially having massive bonus against cav archers. It is not weak against archers as in the case of Camels. Even though it is a melee cavalry, it costs wood and gold and thus not costing heavily upon your economy. Your cavalry archers are also very strong as they upgrade freely to Heavy Cavalry Archers in the Imperial Age and you can research Qinghai Bows giving them +2 Attack. To end it in a glorious fashion you also get Imperial Steppe Lancers to support your Imperial Army.

Characteristics

Unique Units

Zimchongpa: Melee Cavalry units trained from the castle that cost wood and gold and have bonus attack against mounted units.

Yak: Herdable Himalayan Cattle that you can train from Tibetan Mills every minute for every TC you own.

Imperial Steppe Lancer: Imperial Upgrade to Steppe Lancer Line.

Unique Technologies

Dzong = Enables training Villagers at Castle.

Qinghai Bow = Cavalry Archers gain +2 Attack.

Civilization bonuses

• Recruit Yaks from Mills every 100 sec for every Town Center you own
• Every Age Up spawns Forage Bush around houses
• Can build monastery and train monks from Feudal Age
• Heavy Cavalry Archer researched free

Team bonus

• Caravan is free.

In-game dialogue language

• Tibetan units speak Tibetan.

Wonder

Tech Tree