Armored Lance

Armored Lance An enemy Armored Lance in Radiant Dawn. Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful lances.

Unit type(s) Armored Weapon(s) Lance Skill(s) Shove (Radiant Dawn)

The Armored Lance (Japanese: ランスアーマー Lance Armor) is a basic armored class debuting in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. It is one of four weapon-specific variations of the Knight, specialising in the use of lances, and appears only in Thracia 776 and Radiant Dawn; in Genealogy of the Holy War, the Knight class itself filled its role as the basic lance-wielding armored class. It is statistically near-identical to its counterparts, the Armored Axe, Armored Sword and Bow Armor.

It is not playable in either of its appearances, and as such is not tied to a class change line; in Radiant Dawn, the lance-specific Lance General would be its hypothetical class-changed form and does have two playable members.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weight	Experience	CRP	Weapon level
Thracia 776	20	4	0	0	0	0	8	--	5	9	--	--	3	E
Radiant Dawn	22	9	0	6	5	0	11	4	5	12	20	--	--	D

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Thracia 776	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	--	10	20	A
Radiant Dawn	40	20	10	20	20	30	20	10	5	??	A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	85%	55%	15%	50%	55%	30%	40%	20%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Thracia 776

Base class
Armored Lance

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Armored Lance	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Lance General	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Marshall

• Note: Armored Lances only appear as enemy units, and while they do have the ability to promote programmed in, it does not happen in an unmodified game.

Notable enemy Armored Lances

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Zaitan	Radiant Dawn
Enemy Armored Lance units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Heavily armored knights who wield lances. Some may wield swords or axes instead.	分厚い鎧に身を固めた兵士 槍を専門に扱って戦う 他に斧重装兵・剣重装兵がいる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful lances.	??

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Armored Lance	In gameplay, for space restrictions the name is shortened to "Armr Lance".
English (unofficial)	Lance Armor, Armor Knight	Both used in the Thracia 776 fan translation.
Japanese	• ランスアーマー • 槍重装兵ランスアーマー	• Lance Armor; this name was used in Thracia 776. • Officially romanized as Lance Armor; literally "lance heavy knight". In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 槍重装兵), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. ランスアーマー) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Lanza acorazado	Armored lance
French	Chevalier lance	Lance knight. Abbreviated to Chev. lance in Radiant Dawn due to space restrictions.
German	Lanzenmeister	Lance master
Italian	Armigero lancia	Lance armiger

Gallery

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  Concept artwork of the four Armor variants from Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Armored Lance portrait in Thracia 776.

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  An enemy Armored Lance in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Armored Axe
• Armored Sword
• Bow Armor
• Knight

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.