Slavs¶

Tank Dive armored cavalry + trample infantry + siege.

Spawn unit	Starting age	Kills to Castle	Kills to Imp	Razes to vill	Cap	Interval
Boyar	Feudal	300	500	2	60	11 s

⚡ Quick reference¶

Baseline: faster farmers, free Arson + Gambesons, cheaper Siege, Monks +speed. UU Boyar (extreme melee armor). UT Druzhina (infantry +5 armor-ignore trample). Slav siege is cheap.
Requiem v294: starting age Feudal; kills-to-Castle 300; razes-to-vill 2.
CBA role: armored cavalry + trample infantry + siege.
Weak vs: Leitis, Wootz Steel, other armor-ignore attacks.

🏛️ Standard DE profile

Civ bonuses:
Farmers work 10%/15% faster (verify current DE value).
Military buildings provide +5 population.
Tracking free from Feudal Age.
Siege Workshop units 15% cheaper.
Team bonus: Military buildings +5 line-of-sight.
Unique units:
Castle UU: Boyar (heavy cavalry with high melee armor).
Barracks UU: Druzhina — no, Druzhina is a tech. Boyar is the only UU.
Unique techs:
Castle Age: Orthodoxy — Monks +3/+3 armor.
Imperial Age: Druzhina — Infantry deal trample damage.
Notable missing techs: no Bracer, no Ring Archer Armor, no Arbalester, no Camel line, no Bombard Tower (verify), Halberdier available.
Wall availability: Palisade, Stone, Fortified.

🏰 CBA REQUIEM v294 profile

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

Starting age: Feudal (Requiem v294 start table).
Spawn unit: Boyar.
Spawn interval: 11 s per Castle.
Unit cap: 60.
Kills to Castle: 300.
Kills to Imperial: 500.
Razes to first villagers: 2.
Subsequent raze payoff: not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord.
Free starting tech: base civ has free Tracking; CBA additions +4 melee attack; +2/+2 armor; Bloodlines.
Elite trigger: silver-UT flips Boyar to Elite Boyar.
Silver-UT unlock: not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord.
Available buildings / disabled units after villagers: standard whitelist; Slavs' cheap siege is a huge post-villager perk. No elephants.

CBA role & archetype

Primary role: Heavy melee tank / cavalry brawler. Boyar has the highest melee armor of any cavalry UU class.
Secondary role: siege discount enables Ram + Onager spam post-villager.

🌅 Opening play (pre-villager)

Minute 0–3: short spawn, patrol into cavalry engagements.
Preferred fights: cavalry duels (Paladin, Winged Hussar, Cataphract), any melee ball where high armor matters.
Fights to refuse: pikes/halbs, camel stacks, Mameluke.

⚔️ Kill accumulation strategy

Safest kill farm: any melee cavalry civ, most heavy infantry balls (Boyar tanks Champion trivially).
Avoid feeding: Saracens (Mameluke), Berbers (Camel Archer — mounted context), any pike-heavy front.

🏚️ Raze allocation

Slavs are a priority 1-raze recipient — siege discount + post-villager Ram+Onager scales huge.
Feed razes to Slavs early; they convert villagers to siege push extremely well.

👷 Post-villager composition

Wall order: backwall first, then front gate.
Standard build: 2 Barracks (Halb), 1 Archery Range, 2 Stables (Boyar), 2 Siege Workshops (Ram + Onager cheap). (verify availability in the loaded scenario — v294 notes list BBC/treb/mangonel/scorpion as disabled)
Imperial composition: Boyar + Halberdier + Onager + Ram. Druzhina makes Halb trample — one of the strongest post-villager anti-mass comps.
Silver-UT priority: Druzhina first (Halb trample), then Orthodoxy if monk play is relevant.

⚖️ Strong against / Weak against

🤝 Team synergies

Best pairs: Britons (Longbow behind Boyar), Mongols (Mangudai behind Boyar), Portuguese (Organ behind Boyar).
Conflicts: another slow melee civ.

🎮 Key micro rules

⚠️ Common mistakes

Skipping the siege discount — Slavs should always have more siege than teammates.
Fighting Mamelukes head-on.

🔒 Version-locked (Requiem v294)