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Samurai

Lamellar, longsword and a lifetime of drill — the finest line-breaker alive.

Crowd-killer · hits many at once

Stats

Health: 151
Damage: 22per hit
Damage per second: 30.6
Attacks every: 0.72s
Range: Meleereach 38
Move speed: 84
Sight: 215how far it spots a foe
Population: 3of the army cap
Raise: 3,200gold, in battle
Armory: 1,400gold, to unlock

These are the Samurai's own figures, the ones the Armory prints. In battle the Jade Dynasty's trait is added on top: +6% speed · +5% damage · +2% range · −2% health. Range, reach and speed are in the battlefield's own units.

Special powers

Armour. Takes 30% less damage from every blow that does not ignore armour.
Cleave. Every swing also hits the foes around it for 40% of its damage.
Charge. After a run-up, its first blow deals ×1.45 damage.

Strong and weak

Strong: Front line, elites, crowds.

Weak: Pierce, curses, numbers.

As an elite troop, it deals extra damage to Shock (×1.25) troops.

Caster (×1.2) troops deal extra damage to it.

Raising it

The Samurai comes out of its own spawner, which your Builder raises for 3,200 gold in the middle of a battle. Once it stands it musters a Samurai every 1 minute 59 seconds by itself, and levelling it shortens that — to 1 minute 26 seconds at level 2 and 56.8 seconds at level 3.

Upgrades cost 2,250 gold to level 2 and 10,000 gold to level 3. Every level also makes the troops it musters hit harder and last longer.

Before it can be raised at all it has to be unlocked in the Armory, for 1,400 gold — gold carried between battles, earned by fighting them.

Other Elite troops

Every other elite troop in the game, cheapest to raise first. See all Elite troops.

Troop	Kingdom	Raise	Health	Damage	Range	Speed
Paladin	Humans	2,450	145	14	Melee	80
Warlord	Orcs	2,450	120	16	Melee	80
Warden	Dwarves	2,500	219	10	Melee	62
War Maiden	Elves	2,550	123	16	Melee	86
War Priest	Humans	2,550	142	15	Melee	78
Templar	Humans	2,600	110	12	Melee	72
Vanguard	Dwarves	2,750	194	12	Melee	66
Sentinel	Elves	2,800	162	12	Melee	70
Grave Guard	Undead	3,200	197	15	Melee	54
Foreman	Overwound	3,300	120	23	Melee	84
Royal Guard	Humans	3,500	213	21	Melee	66
Abyssal Priest	Damned	3,700	126	21	Melee	78
Gate Warden	Damned	3,700	159	21	Melee	72
Death Knight	Undead	3,750	194	23	Melee	74
Star Warden	Fallen	3,900	138	24	120	84
Dread Champion	Damned	4,100	154	26	Melee	86
Hull Knight	Fallen	4,200	160	28	Melee	88
Crater Guard	Fallen	4,250	150	25	Melee	80
Kensei	Dynasty	4,300	136	34	Melee	112
Minotaur	Beasts	4,300	258	28	Melee	88
Harrow Knight	Damned	4,450	144	29	Melee	96

More Jade Dynasty troops

The Jade Dynasty page has all 26 of them side by side, with the kingdom's powers.