Nobles' Court/Bronze Dawn

A Nobles' Court is a special building which hosts religion-related units and technologies. Historically, these buildings would constitute parliaments or quarters for the nobility, and could be used by the sovereign to enact laws and to restrain the unruliness of the aristocracy by forcing them to dwell near the capital, where they could be better moderated.

Only the Chinese factions of Bronze Dawn, alongside the Sakas and the Kushans, may build Nobles' Courts, and they require:

• Iron Age
• Masonry from Assembly
• Taxation from Granary

So the powerful and strong units of the Nobles' Court are available only to the most advanced and complex of societies!

Units trained

Agents

Asian and Muslim factions have the ability to recruit very powerful and specialised agents from the nobles' court. Although most of them have different abilities, one trait that they do share is the ability to perform assasinations against any and all units, including spies.

• Imperial legates are Asian agents which have extra hitpoints and craft. While they are cloaked when moving, they are also capable of detecting hidden units, neutralising enemy spies, and assassination.
• Monomi are the ultimate agent, and are a Japanese unique unit upgrade of the Imperial legate. They are faster, have the most hitpoints and craft, and are capable of performing assasinations, counterintelligence and sabotage missions.

Chinese

• Guardsmen (heavy swordsmen)
• Heavy Axe Infantry
• War Chariot, Heavy Chariot (Chian'ki, Tolun-Chian'ki)
• Ongkiong-Oei'si-Khipeng (Chinese Guard Cavalry)
• Tiong-Kek-P'openg (Heavy Ji Infantry)
• Tiong'n'lo-Sekpeng (Heavy Crossbowmen)

Indo-Aryan (for Saka, Kushans)

• Guardsmen
• Heavy Axemen
• Kamboja Asvaka Ksatriya
• Hoplitai Indohellenikoi
• Yavana Kadhgadhara
• Sahiya Hadabara,
• Taxwaran Wazdatta [1] => Taxwaran Baxjintai [2]
• Elephantes Indikoi [1]

Muslim units and techs

Units

Name	Class		Name	Class
Mamluk Lancer	Heavy cavalry		Ghilman Cavalry	Medium raiding cavalry
Tabardiyyah Infantry	Heavy polearms infantry		Fedayeen	Super agent

Fedayeen are Muslim agents which can only bribe other units, but have extra hitpoints and craft, are cloaked when moving, and have a very high attack that can kill most units in one hit. It is to be noted that an exact replica of this unit, known as the hashishin, are recruitable by some non-Muslim factions (notably Venice and Russia) as mercenary units, and also feature greatly in some CtW scenarios.

Darul Islam

"Believers, be steadfast and guard your borders."

• Increases knowledge accumulation to the highest possible maximum without wonders
• Houses of worship won't convert in enemy territory
• Opens access to a select corps of military units.

Cost	Requirements	Leads to
990; 990 Time to complete: Long

Asian

• Imperial Legate
• Monomi

Mongol

Name	Class		Name	Class
Noyan	Super cavalry archer		Keshig Guard	Super cavalry archer

Other

Name	Class
Ghilman Cavalry	Medium raiding cavalry
Royal Hounds	Light swordsmen

Upgrades

Attrition

Attrition upgrades increase the damage that enemy units will suffer in your territory, and are also required for some militia units.

NAME	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	LEADS TO
Imperial Mandate (Chinese only)	"The Empire is a family of which the Emperor is the father." Prereqs: Inflicts attrition damage to enemy troops in your territory at Level 2.	300; 300 Time to complete: Rather fast	[[]]

Note: Level 3 is attainable only with Imperial Mandate.

• Requires: Asceticism from house of worship; Land Law from Granary.
• For Japan, Divine Mandate allows access to several units: the Monomi; Saburai Cavalry, Saburai Archers and Foot Saburai fron the Nobles' Court; and Ashigaru from the Barracks, upgraded into a Dojo.
• Grants the use of the following buildings:

Production/low-level defence

• Munitions Ministry (China and Serbia)
• Constabulary (China, Mongolia, Armenia)
• Dojo (Japan)
• Naval Cantonment (China, Japan)
• Chapterhouse (Byzantium, Serbia, Russia)
• Magistracy (Byzantium, Serbia, Armenia, Russia)
• Eunuch's Court (Byzantium, China)
• Imperial City (China, Mongolia, Japan)

High-level defence

• Bastion (all)
• Stronghold (Mongolia, China)

Cost	Requirements	Leads to
880; 880 Time to complete: Long	Food production

Others

• Royal Hounds