# Axe-Bearers

**Entity Type:** Skill

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Military |
| Type | Discovery |
| Knowledge Cost | 4,000 |

## Description

Axe-Bearers is a Military skill that unlocks the Axe-Bearers military unit. Military skills improve your land and naval military units or unlock completely new unit types. They also allow you to unlock powerful upgrades for defensive buildings including Towers, Walls, and recruitment buildings.

## Effects

| Effect | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| Unlocks | Axe-Bearers |

Equipped solely with trousers and two-headed axes, Axe-Bearers dominate melee combat, but are susceptible to ranged attacks. Heavy axes perform well against enemies behind shields and armour.

## Unlock Requirements

This is a Discovery-type skill, which makes up the majority of skills in the Anno 117 skill tree. To research it, you must first reach it via a research path.

**Special Requirements:**
- Choose the Celtic path in Albion
- Host Smiths in your realm

## Related Skills

Other skills in the Military category:

- Aegis Research
- Aux In, Aux Out
- Balearic Ballistics
- Perilous Ports
- Encampment Errands
- Carpe Civitas
- Cover positions
- Multi-task Menders
- Equicurrian Chariots
- Featherweight Frames
- Sturdy Construction
- Plated Hulls
- Rammed Earth
- Dominion Research
- Here Come The Cavalry
- Imperial Measures
- Camp Campaigning
- Cataphractarii
- Co-ordinated Volleys
- Legatic Research
- Legionaries
- Legionic Research
- Manipular Manouvres
- Manor Invictus
- Nautical Research
- Ordine Research
- Parabolics
- Parmae
- Rain Of Pain
- Praetorians
- Bargain Palisades
- Pro Domo
- Provisinal Castra
- Vitruvius-class Crossbeams
- Repair Cranes
- Armousmithing
- Shipwright Studies
- Shipboard Scorpiones
- Protective Entourage
- Catapult Carriers
- Navarchal Research
- Scorpiones
- Spathas
- Brick By Brick
- Another Brick In The Wall
- Stone Walls
- Slingers
- Chariots
- Sword and Sald
- Tuatha De Danann
- Tower Ballistae
- Tower Contiguity
- Valetudinaria
- Cautious Greeting
- Tacking
- Target Practice

## Source

- [anno.land - Axe-Bearers](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/axttraeger/)
