Thutmose III (reigning c. 1479–1425 BC) was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty during Egypt's New Kingdom, remembered by later ages as the "Napoleon of the Ancient World." Across his reign he led seventeen campaigns, driving from Palestine and Syria all the way to the banks of the Euphrates. At the Battle of Megiddo he gambled on the unguarded mountain pass, emerging behind the Canaanite coalition to shatter it in a single stroke, and pushed Egyptian power to the greatest extent it would ever reach. He was at once a master commander and a builder of temples, raising monuments along the Nile even as his armies redrew the map. Few pharaohs embodied the expansionist age of the New Kingdom so completely, and his legend as a tireless, unbeaten conqueror endured for three thousand years across the Middle East & Africa.
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Thutmose III
Napoleon of the Ancient World
The pharaoh who marched the Nile to its widest borders, a silencing archer-king whose every campaign ended in conquest.
History
On the Battlefield
Thutmose III takes the field as an Archer, a back-line commander built around ranged suppression and lingering control. His signature, the Nile's Wrath, breaks over the enemy ranks like the Nile in flood, stilling their voice and binding their power before they can answer. Around him, the standing blessing of Pharaoh's Glory steadies allied ranks, sharpening their strikes the longer the line holds its ground. Patient and durable, he favors survival over reckless advance — a sovereign who lets his enemies exhaust themselves against silence, then claims the field as the Nile claims its banks.
Hero Bonds
Bonds this commander belongs to — activate by fielding all listed heroes together:
- Heavenly Order (天理国制) — with Seondeok → +4% Damage Reduction
