Corvette

Unit Information

Game Strategies

History

Corvette
Light Ships(Replaces none)
Base cost	30 Food, 30 Timber
Ramping cost	special (see text)
Build time	10.0 sec. (150 frames)
Hit points	175
Line of sight	13 tiles
Movement speed	54 (4.2 tiles/sec.)
Attack strength	14
Attack range	0-8 tiles
Armor	1
Population points
Built at	Anchorage
Prerequisites	Gunpowder Age
Hotkey (Anchorage)	E
Upgrades from	Caravel
Upgrades to	Sloop
Special abilities	none

Use in RON

The Corvettes are like all Light Ships, though more in common with their cousins the Caravels than the earlier light ships.

Trivia

The Corvette in Rise of Nations actually does not depict the sort of warship which would have been used by most Western navies, but is based off the design of a Middle Eastern warship known as a Xebec, which may have been the inspiration for the real life Corvette.