Age of Empires Mobile – The Ultimate Guide of Warrior Swordsmen Heroes/Lineups (from Josephine to King Arthur)

In this guide we are going to talk about warrior swordsmen starting from Josephine all the way to King Arthur.

Warrior Swordsmen Heroes/Lineups Guide

By kaity

Note: All the commander and signature skills are at level 1. Divide by 0.298 to get the max values at the max level.

Hammurabi, Josephine & King Derrick

Hammurabi and Josephine are Tavern Heroes

King Derrick has a specific event at the start of the server, he is only obtainable through this event.

Josephine is a better hero in Archer than in Swordsmen while King Derrick is better in Swordsmen than in Archers, Hammurabi is only swordsmen.

King Derrick and Hammurabi utilize the “Rout” effects for additional damage simply put.

The “Rout” state simply put is damage over time that if King Derrick’s Signature effect or Hammurabi’s Commander skills.

This line-up is used as an early game completely F2P budget line-up.

Consisting of Josephine/Hammurabi/King Derrick.

Skills

• Josephine: Weak Spot Attack and Protracted Battle.
• Hammurabi: High Spirit & Blood Thirst.
• King Derrick: Righteous Judgement & Earth Crush.

Hammurabi does not run Earth Crush because his signature skill especially with his first star provides good rout uptime already.

these are the skills used on these heroes for any line-up in general and in the Josephine Hammurabi King Derrick specifically.

Miyamoto Musashi

When you read his Signature skill, the part where he may activate another hero’s signature skill makes you think the hero is interesting, but I want to mention that the numbers he has on his Signature skill and his commander skill are a little bit inflated, definitely one of the most heroes that are worth to pick if you are interested in swordsmen.

His Signature skill does lots of damage and then has a chance to trigger another hero’s active skill, but please pay attention that the condition of this is the hero you want to trigger their skill should have more might than the third hero in the line-up.

Commander skills do lots of damage, have high initial energy, and is able to debuff the enemy reducing the skill damage they do, one of the best Commander skills in the whole game if not the best.

• Miyamoto’s early game is used instead of Josephine.
• Making a new line-up consisting of Miyamoto, Hammurabi King Derrick.
• And he can be used even in late-game.
• Miyamoto: is a VIP chest hero, he is usable at 0 stars and cheap to unlock, one of the great investments, that’s if you are interested in this line-up

Skills

• Earth Crush over Peerless Strike, just because Miyamoto can be used early on with King Derrick and Hammurabi.
• High Spirit vs Furious Charge is a little bit tricky.
• Furious Charge should be picked when Miya is the commander, this could be for the Miya Hammurabi King Derrick line-up, for MIya King Derrick and Tribhuwana line-up, or even for Miya Yodit Tribhuwana line-up.
• High Spirit is when Miyamoto is secondary, he is only secondary in Yodit Miyamoto Tribhuwana’s line-up.

If you want an easy choice use Furious Charge early game and keep using Miyamoto as primary in the late game.

So for the early game line-up Miyamoto Hammurabi and King Derrick, use Earth Crush and Furious Charge on Miyamoto, and King Derrick and Hammurabi as stated previously.

Please note that Josephine King Derrick and Hammurabi are generally heroes that should be replaced with better late-game heroes.

Tribhuwana

Tribhuwana or I would like to call her the queen of swordsmen, if Tribhuwana was a tactician swordsman people would forget about warrior swordsmen and talk about Sun Tzu, and if she were a tactician archer people would talk about Suleiman! well instead of overhyping her let’s talk about her skills:

Tribhuwana Signature’s skills do not work when she is commander so she is only a secondary hero.

Her Signature skill does three or two things:

• Some healing when your commander uses their signature skill X times, no one cares about that.
• 10% activation chance for your commander signature active skill, interesting.
• For some limited time you get an additional 50% chance, hello balance?

Tribhuwana for some reason can provide your commander with a 60% chance while the regular chance to trigger active skill for most heroes is 25%, you can say she makes your commander’s Signature skill get triple its value (well at least for most heroes)

Note: Please pay attention Tribhuwana only increases the chance of the active skills of the commander signature skill.

Tribhuwana is obtained through the wheel.

Skills

Tribhuwana typically use Righteous Judgement & BloodThirst that or stick with purple skills and save the skill unlocks, make sure you prioritize her signature skill

Tribhuwana can be used anywhere and everywhere when it comes to swordsmen line-up.

You can use Miya King Derrick and Tribhuwana.

King Derrick over Hammurabi because he has more might and it’s easier to get his stars for more might, make sure that King Derrick’s might is higher than Tribhuwana’s, you can consider using might bonus talents on King Derrick but not use it on Tribhuwana.

Typically you don’t run King Derrick Hammurabi Tribhuwana’s team, because Tribhuwana is a support hero and King Derrick and Hammurabi are not worth her support.

Turbhuwana is used in lots of other line-ups mentioned ahead.

Yodit (Gudit)

Yodit: is obtained through a wheel, a late-game hero.

Yodit signature skill:

• As other skills, has a chance to do damage.
• It has a small chance to get damage immunity for 1 second, or in other words taking no damage for a whole second, may seem OP but the chance is 10% and becomes 15% with her 5th star, the chance is too low to be reliable.

Note: each time the signature skill triggers, she gets a mark, or a buff, increasing her might, these marks can stack up to 4 times, or 6 times with her 5th star, Yodit Commander skill consumes 4 stacks every time it’s activated (it won’t consume stacks if she has less than 4).

Her commander skill:

• She either has less than 4 marks from her signature skill, and then she does damage to 3 targets that’s it.
• Or she has 4 or more, she gets an upgraded version of her commander skill that does more damage to the 3 targets and consumes 4 stacks.

As you can see there is some Dilemma with Yodit, her marks grant her a strong buff (might) but her commander skill consumes these marks.

If you are an F2P player or in other words not have Miyamoto, Yodit can only run as a commander for you paired with Tribhuwana.

If you have Miyamoto then there is a great chance you used him as a primary early game, and you have Furious Charge so a simple solution is to just run Miyamoto as commander and Yodit as secondary.

Yodit needs Tribhuwana since Yodit needs to trigger her skill to build stacks and get buff, this is going long long time the battle would be over before that happens, so Tribhuwana is needed.

Tribhuwana either buffs Yodit directly by Putting Yodit as a commander.

Or indirectly by putting Miyamoto as the primary, and Yodit as a secondary whose might should be higher than Tribhuwana so her signature skill gets triggered by Miya.

One of the popular teams you will be Yodit Miyamoto and Tribhuwana, either with Miya commander or Yodit commander.

Or Primary in Yodit Hammurabi Tribhuwana team for f2p.

Skills

• When it comes to Yodit being commander use Furious Charge & Battle Roar.
• When she is secondary it’s a little bit debatable, depending on my calculations Battle Roar is of high value as well.
• This makes Battle Roar the BIS of Yodit.

But for Furous Charge vs Executor it’s hard to say what’s better.

In the Miya Tribhuwana Yodit line-up, it seems that the Miyamoto and Tribhuwana combo will trigger Yodit signature skills a lot, making the increased triggering of Yodit skills not as good as you think (even if it’s still good)

The damage amplification of executor is considered as good as only two stacks of Furious Charge, for that I prefer Furious Charge over Executor.

Executor is probably better in a secondary Yodit when she is not buffed by the Miya+ Tribhuwana combo.

Generally speaking, it seems Yodit’s best skills are Battle Roar & Furious Charge.

Constantine

Constantine is obtained through high VIP chests.

He is a tank his signature skill is split into parts:

1. He has a chance to heal your troops.
2. He grants damage reduction to your team every time the commander uses their signature skill.

Constantine just like Yodit, needs the queen of swordsmen Tribhuwana, this is to keep the Damage reduction for the longest time, and its synergies with his 5th star. which is every time the commander uses their signature active skill two things happen.

• Further Increases Consatatnine damage reduction from his skill (stackable).
• Grants the commander might buff.

Constantine’s commander skill is whatever, not bad but no one uses him as a commander.

Constantine is used with Tribhuwana usually.

Skills

I will keep this short, go Bloodthirst and Peaceful Haven on Constantine.

King Arthur

• KA is obtained from the VIP chest and an event that is unlocked at VIP 17.
• KA is a mythical hero so he has higher stats than the legendary heroes.

KA signature skill

• Does some damage, not that much damage, a multiplier lower than Miyamoto and Yodit but the second part is what’s scary.
• When KA triggers his skill twice, he gets a buff for 9 seconds that increases with his first star to 15.
• This buff makes him ignore 50% of heroes defense, or in other words, makes him do at least double the damage he is supposed to do, the strongest damage buff in the game.

His commander skill does damage to 3 targets and increases King Arthur and increase his stats for 3 seconds, this skill takes a long time to cast as you can see, the multiplier is not that high, and the stats increase help but the uptime is not that high, it’s not a bad skill but it’s not too crazy.

King Arthur is a scaling hero he needs time to get his buff.

King Arthur is used in:

• Miyamoto King Arthur Constantine line-up is a line-up used until you get Tribhuwana.

Then either:

• Miyamoto King Arthur Constantine for bursty line-up.

Or the one I like

• King Arthur Constantine Tribhuwana’s line-up.

Skills

King Arthur uses Peerless Strike, that’s because he needs damage sources to benefit from his signature skill buff, and Furious Charge to scale.

With Tribhuwana he won’t need High Spirit, and with his 3 stars he kinda does not need it as well.

I think the line-ups have been confusing for some time so let’s wrap it up.

Line-Ups

For f2p who does not have Miyamoto:

1. Early game Josephine Hammurabi King Derrick, budget line-up early game. Look for replacement.
2. Then King Derrick Hammurabi and Tribhuwana (I don’t recommend this, just wait for Yodit!).
3. Yodit Hammurabi Tribhuwana.

For players who have Miya even at 0 stars:

1. Early game Miyamoto Hammurabi King Derrick.
2. When Tribhuwana comes: Miyamoto King Derrick Tribhuwana.
3. When Yodit comes: Miyamoto Yodit Tribhuwana.
4. You can Consider Yodit Miyamoto Tribhuwana, especially if you want to use this line-up in rallies.

If you got Constantine:

• Consider Yodit Constantine Tribhuwana.

If you got King Arthur:

• Consider King Arthur Constantine Tribhuwana, Tribhuwana synergies a lot with Constantine, and she is pretty much welcomed everywhere.

Rings

When it comes to rings as always Damage reduction is great to go: Lofty Mountain, Tranquil Water, Ring of Clover, Ring of Deer.

• Ringsof Badger is a little bit niche but it’s ok for swordsmen to get a good matchup against the neutral Cavalry, and be a little bit tough to be taken out by warrior archer heroes.
• Skyward knight even if the damage buff scales off strategy it’s a good skill to go on Tribhuwana with whoever, a great ring for these line-ups.
• Effulgent Sun is a good ring for Yodit and King Arthur who buff themselves and always welcome any new source of damage.
• King of Bear is a generally decent but risky ring, don’t go with it if you don’t have another good damage reduction ring, just an option I don’t recommend is that much.
• Scorching Flame can be decent but don’t recommend it that much.

Stars

Generally speaking, most of these heroes are usable at 0 stars.

• Be careful of starring Tribhuwana since she may end up having more might and thus wasting part of Miyamoto’s Signature skill.
• King Arthur stars are a little bit inflated because he gets lots of uptime for his buff from his 1st and 3rd stars, these stars are less valuable when you are using Tribhuwana with him, any way they might increase from his stars are significant and his 5th star gives a great damage buff.
• Constantine is a good hero to get to his 5th star, I like it a lot.