Club Fighter

The club fighter is the first heavy melee warrior humanity fielded, reaching back to the earliest Stone Age conflicts. Carved from dense hardwood and fitted with a carefully shaped stone head, the club is a deceptively simple yet devastatingly effective weapon — it cannot be deflected like a blade and transfers its full kinetic force to bone and skull on impact. Neolithic burial sites across Europe and the Near East bear witness to skull fractures caused by exactly such weapons, proving their lethality long before any written record. Slow-moving and unarmored, the club fighter compensates through raw hitting power and a fearsome presence in the front line. In the game he is a cheap early brawler who excels against other Stone Age units but struggles against the bronze-armored infantry that follows.