The Rider is a mounted melee unit unlocked by the Riding technology. The Rider has more movement but lower defence than a Warrior. In addition, the Rider has the escape skill, which allows it to move after attacking. Therefore, the Rider can be used in hit-and-run warfare.
The Oumaji tribe starts the game with a Rider. The Aquarion tribe has the Amphibian in place of the Rider, and Cymanti has the Hexapod.
Strengths and Weaknesses[]
Strengths:
- Early-game expansion. Riders can traverse distances twice as fast as Warriors. When paired with explorers and Roads, they can make claiming large swathes of land very quick compared to using Warriors.
- Sniping enemy cities. Riders have the escape skill, allowing them to potentially move into empty enemy cities and siege them after killing any defending units nearby. An experienced Rider user can often accomplish multiple objectives, such as killing key units or moving into villages, with a single Rider every turn.
Weaknesses:
- Exploring undiscovered lands. The Rider's increased movement is made useless when trying to explore and clear the clouds from the map, as you will still be limited to moving one tile per turn into the clouds. Furthermore, they are quite weak when defending, meaning it is easy for an exploring Rider to be destroyed by enemy forces with vision on your units. It is much more effective to use them as skirmishers to cycle in and out of combat in lands you already have vision in.
- Fighting Giants. It takes 10 Rider attacks to kill a Giant, which will almost always deal enough damage to kill your rider in retaliation. Using purely Riders to kill enemy Giants is usually not cost-effective, with a possible exception being if you wanted to clear up unit space in your cities.
Strategy[]
- Riders are the most versatile unit, with the ability to move twice in one turn. With a large amount of Riders and the Roads tech, one can set up complex Rider sieges, ideally being able to not only siege the target, but block off any potential relieving forces.
- Using Riders, you can cycle attacks on a single target. With other melee units, if a tile only had one other tile leading into it, you would only be able to attack it once in a turn. Riders can attack and move away from the point of attack, allowing you to deliver multiple attacks from even the narrowest of entry points.
- Riders with roads have greater movement than boosted Hexapods, which allows riders to pick off exposed Hexapods.
Gallery[]
The Xin-xi Rider
The Imperius Rider
The Bardur Rider
The Oumaji Rider
The Kickoo Rider
The Hoodrick Rider
The Luxidoor Rider
The Vengir Rider
The Zebasi Rider
The Ai-Mo Rider
The Quetzali Rider
The Yădakk Rider
The Aquarion Rider
The ∑∫ỹriȱŋ Rider
The Polaris Rider
The Cymanti Rider
The Rider icon
Tribe Skins[]
The Xin-xi Sha-po Rider
The Imperius Lirepacci Rider
The Bardur Baergøff Rider
The Oumaji Khondor Rider
The Kickoo Ragoo Rider
The Hoodrick Yorthwober Rider
The Luxidoor Aumux Rider
The Vengir Cultist Rider
The Zebasi Anzala Rider
The Ai-Mo To-Lï Rider
The Quetzali Iqaruz Rider
The Yădakk Ürkaz Rider
The ∑∫ỹriȱŋ ₼idŋighţ Rider
The Aquarion Forgotten Rider
The Polaris Solaris Rider
Amphibian[]
- This article is about the mermaid version of the Rider. For mermaid units in general, see Mermaid Units.
The Aquarion tribe has the Mermaid Dagger unit instead of the Dagger. Like other mermaid units, the Mermaid Dagger differs from the Dagger only in being amphibious, allowing the Mermaid Dagger to move through both water and land, with a movement penalty on the latter.
Gallery[]
The Xin-xi Amphibian
The Imperius Amphibian
The Bardur Amphibian
The Oumaji Amphibian
The Kickoo Amphibian
The Hoodrick Amphibian
The Luxidoor Amphibian
The Vengir Amphibian
The Zebasi Amphibian
The Ai-Mo Amphibian
The Quetzali Amphibian
The Yădakk Amphibian
The Aquarion Amphibian
The ∑∫ỹriȱŋ Amphibian
The Polaris Amphibian
The Cymanti Amphibian
The Amphibian icon
Tribe Skins[]
The Xin-xi Sha-po Amphibian
The Imperius Lirepacci Amphibian
The Bardur Baergøff Amphibian
The Oumaji Khondor Amphibian
The Kickoo Ragoo Amphibian
The Hoodrick Yorthwober Amphibian
The Luxidoor Aumux Amphibian
The Vengir Cultist Amphibian
The Zebasi Anzala Amphibian
The Ai-Mo To-Lï Amphibian
The Quetzali Iqaruz Amphibian
The Yădakk Ürkaz Amphibian
The ∑∫ỹriȱŋ ₼idŋighţ Amphibian
The Aquarion Forgotten Amphibian
The Polaris Solaris Amphibian
Trivia[]
- Unlike other mermaid units, the Amphibian was added before the Aquarion rework and was considered a distinct unit.
- Before the Aquarion rework, the Amphibian was visually identical to the Rider. The Amphibian is slightly smaller than the Rider.
- The Amphibian received a defence bonus in cities between update 1.14, which introduced the fortify unit skill, and the Aquarion rework.
- Between the Path of the Ocean update and the Aquarion rework, Aquarion started with an Amphibian and the Riding technology.
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