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Koreans

Kite Tank durable ranged / siege core; also excellent spawn-blocker due to durability.

Spawn unit Starting age Kills to Castle Kills to Imp Razes to vill Cap Interval
War Wagon (signature Castle UU on land maps like CBA) Post-Imperial 250 500 2 60 10 s

⚡ Quick reference

  • Baseline: faster stone mining, ranged/infantry −wood, free archer armor + tower upgrades, cheaper warships. UU War Wagon (durable ranged). UT Shinkichon (Rocket Cart interactions).
  • Requiem v294: starting age Feudal; kills-to-Castle 250; razes-to-vill 2.
  • CBA role: durable ranged / siege core; also excellent spawn-blocker due to durability.
  • Post-vill: War Wagon + counter screen + Rocket Cart / Siege Onager.
  • Micro: never stack Wagons against Chakram/Urumi/Scorpion.

📜 Deep playbook

🏛️ Standard DE profile

  • Civ bonuses:
  • Villagers +3 line of sight.
  • Stone miners work +20% faster.
  • Tower upgrades free (Guard Tower, Keep) — no gold/food cost.
  • Towers +1 range in Castle, +2 in Imperial (total).
  • Onagers/Mangonels +1 range in Imperial.
  • Start with a free Wheelbarrow-adjacent boost (Villagers carry extra stone).
  • Team bonus: Mangonel-line minimum range reduced.
  • Unique units: War Wagon (Castle UU, ranged HP tank) and Turtle Ship (naval UU).
  • Unique techs:
  • Castle Age: Panokseon — Turtle Ships +15% speed.
  • Imperial Age: Shinkichon — Mangonels/Onagers +1 range.
  • Notable missing techs: no Bloodlines, no Champion (Long Swordsman max), no Bracer, no Plate Barding.
  • Walls: all three tiers.

🏰 CBA REQUIEM v294 profile

(v294 numbers: Fandom wiki, retrieved 2026-08-21)

  • Starting age: Post-Imperial.
  • Spawn unit: War Wagon (signature Castle UU on land maps like CBA).
  • Spawn interval / unit cap: 10 s per Castle; cap 60.
  • Kills to Castle / Imperial: 250 (Castle) / 500 (Imperial).
  • Razes to first villagers: 2.
  • Free starting tech: Thumb Ring; Husbandry (Shinkichon frequently gated behind the silver-UT trigger in v294).
  • Silver-UT unlock: Shinkichon typically — condition not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord.
  • Available buildings / disabled: post-villager Siege Onager access is the whole reason to play Koreans; BBC not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord per v294 whitelist.

CBA role & archetype

  • Primary role: tank / kite. War Wagons have massive HP, decent pierce, and outrange most non-siege units.
  • Secondary role: post-villager siege dominance via Siege Onager + Shinkichon range.

🌅 Opening play

  • Minute 0–3: hold the middle; War Wagons do not need to dive. Set patrol to short arcs.
  • Preferred fights: any archer stack, any infantry blob.
  • Fights to refuse: Halb-heavy waves, Camel stacks (Saracens/Berbers), Mangudai kite (Mongols).
  • Micro: face-shoot, don't kite unless enemy is faster. Position at max range on choke points.

⚔️ Kill accumulation strategy

  • Safest farms: Britons, Ethiopians, Chinese, Mayans, Incas, Byzantines — anything archer-based feeds War Wagons.
  • Avoid: Mongols (Mangudai outrange and outkite), Saracens (Mameluke shreds), Franks (Throwing Axemen actually — wrong, Franks lack them; but Franks are Frankish Paladin — actually a decent even fight; the real avoid is Camel civs).
  • Anti-cage: never let a War Wagon get flanked; they turn slowly and lose the range advantage in melee.

🏚️ Raze allocation

  • Priority: mid-to-high. Post-villager Koreans want Siege Onagers online ASAP — the villager economy funds this directly.
  • Feed razes to: Koreans themselves are a valid recipient; also feed Persians and Turks.

👷 Post-villager composition

  • Wall order: front wall + tower ring (Koreans get free tower upgrades — abuse this).
  • Standard build: 2 Siege Workshops (Siege Onager priority), 1 Barracks (Halb-substitute Pikeman). UU production and Castle research run from your pre-placed Castles. (verify availability in the loaded scenario — v294 notes list BBC/treb/mangonel/scorpion as disabled)
  • Imperial composition: Elite War Wagon + Siege Onager (with Shinkichon) + Halb-substitute + Ram.
  • Silver-UT priority: Shinkichon — Siege Onagers with +1 range out-siege every other civ in the game.

⚖️ Strong against / Weak against

  • Strong vs.: Britons, Mayans, Chinese, Ethiopians, Vietnamese, Byzantines, most archer/infantry mixes.
  • Weak vs.: Mongols (Mangudai), Saracens (Mameluke), Berbers (Camel Archer), Malay (Karambit swarm dodging bolts), Persians (War Elephant chews War Wagon HP faster than the reverse).

🤝 Team synergies

  • Best pairs: Japanese (Samurai dive while War Wagons shoot), Franks (Paladin cover), Teutons (Teutonic Knight melee front).
  • Conflicts: doubling with another slow ranged civ (Chinese, Vietnamese) creates zero mobility.

🎮 Key micro rules

  1. Face-shoot; don't turn your back to melee.
  2. Get Shinkichon Siege Onagers online the moment razes allow.
  3. Free tower upgrades — ring your production with Keeps.
  4. Never solo dive; War Wagons die to focus fire in melee.
  5. Stagger for Onager splash resistance.

⚠️ Common mistakes

  • Kiting when you don't need to (loses DPS uptime).
  • Ignoring the Siege Onager pivot in favor of pure War Wagon mass.

🔒 Version-locked (Requiem v294)

  • War Wagon as spawn is standard; caps not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord for v294.
  • Shinkichon gating (free vs. silver-UT) is v294 specific.