Unit skills grant certain units special characteristics in combat or movement.
The information box for a Warrior, showing its unit skills (dash and fortify).
General Skills
| Skill | Description | Units |
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| Carry | Allows a unit to carry another unit inside. A unit with the carry skill can move to a land tile adjacent to water, but doing so turns it into the unit it was carrying and ends the unit's turn. | |
| Convert | Allows a unit to convert an enemy unit into a friendly unit by attacking it. | |
| Crush | Allows a unit to destroy any building it moves onto. | |
| Dash | Allows a unit to attack after moving in the same turn. | |
| Escape | Allows a unit to move (or move again) after attacking. | |
| Float | Allows a unit to move on water. Navigation or Free Diving must be researched to travel on ocean tiles if the unit does not have the navigate skill. | |
| Fortify | Allows a unit to receive a defence bonus in cities. | |
| Heal | Grants a unit an ability to heal all adjacent friendly units by up to 4 HP. | |
| Persist | Allows a unit to attack again immediately after killing an enemy unit. There is no limit on the number of enemy units that can be killed in a single turn. | |
| Scout | Allows a unit to explore a 5x5 area instead of the standard 3x3 area. |
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Skills Unique to Special Tribes
| Skill | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Aquarion | ||
| Swim | Allows a unit to freely travel between water and land but doubles the movement cost of land tiles without roads. | |
| ∑∫ỹriȱŋ | ||
| Grow | Allows a unit to change into a different unit after a given number of turns. | |
| ∑∫ỹriȱŋ and Cymanti | ||
| Fly | Allows a unit to ignore all movement barriers imposed by terrain but prohibits the unit from using roads. | |
| Independent | Units with this skill do not take up a population slot in or belong to any city. | |
| Splash | Allows a unit to damage enemy units adjacent to the targeted unit. |
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| Navigate | Allows a unit to move in ocean even if the prerequisite technologies are not researched. Units with the navigate skill cannot move to land tiles, except for capturing cities and villages. | |
| Polaris | ||
| Auto Freeze | Allows a unit to automatically freeze adjacent enemy units and freeze adjacent water tiles into ice tiles as it moves. | |
| Freeze | Allows a unit to freeze enemy units it attacks. | |
| Freeze Area | Grants a unit the Freeze Area unit ability, which freezes adjacent enemy units, freezes adjacent water tiles into ice tiles, and converts adjacent land tiles into Polaris land. | |
| Skate | Doubles movement on ice but limits movement to one and bars the use of the dash and escape skills on land. | |
| Cymanti | ||
| Boost | Allows a unit to boost surrounding allies stats until they attack an enemy, capture village, or heal. Boost stats are: +1 movement and +0.5 attack. | |
| Creep | Allows a unit to ignore movement barriers imposed by mountains and forests. | |
| Eat | Allows a unit to grow in length for every kill it gets. | |
| Explode | Grants a unit the Explode ability, damage equal to its attack to every unit adjacent to it, poisoning those units in the same way as an attack from a unit with the poison skill. Also leaves spores or algae. | |
| Poison | Allows a unit to poison enemies with spores upon an attack. These spores reduce the enemy's defense to 0.8 of its usual value and cause the unit to drop Spores (if on land) or Algae (if on water) upon death. It also causes units to receive 50% less benefit from healing, an removes any bonuses to defense a unit might have. It can be removed by a Mind Bender's healing ability or by Mycelium or by healing to maximum health. | |
| Sneak | Allows a unit to ignore movement barriers imposed enemy units. | |
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