Comanche
A Comanche settlement.
Age of Empires III
Continent	North America
Technologies	Comanche warrior societies Champion Comanche Comanche trade language Comanche horse breeding Comanche mustangs
Maps	Great Plains Rockies Texas Ozarks
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Comanche Horse Archer (also called NatHorseArcher)
A Comanche horse archer.
First Appearance	Age of Empires III
Native Americans
Cost	70 Food 80 Wood
Age Available	Colonial Age
Base Hit Points	200
Training Limit	10
Speed	7.25
LOS	16
Resists	10% vs. melee
Range Damage	13
Range Multipliers	x2.3 vs. melee cavalry x0.5 vs. villagers x2.0 vs. artillery
Range	0-12
Siege Damage	15
Siege Range	0-6
R.O.F.	1.5 / 3.0 (ranged, siege)
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The Comanche are a minor civilization in Age of Empires III.

OverviewEdit

The Comanche are available as allies on the Great Plains, Rockies, Texas and Ozarks maps. Once a Trading Post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Comanche horse archers and research available upgrades.

UnitsEdit

The Comanche horse archer is similar to the European Dragoon, however it is more cost effective. This is due to the fact every map featuring the Comanche was added in The WarChiefs, on these maps trading posts only cost 200 Wood (the same as a Stable) rather than the usual 250. The horse archer is more effective versus enemy hand cavalry than the dragoon due to its melee resistance but will die more quickly to ranged infantry.

UpgradesEdit

Comanche upgrades focus mostly on cavalry and reducing the cost of more advanced technologies.

Comanche Trade Language (Discovery Age): Reduces the coin cost of all upgrades by 10%.
Cost: 100 Food , 100 Coin

Comanche Horse Breeding (Discovery Age): Improves cavalry and light infantry (see usefulness section) hit points by 10%.
Cost: 150 Food , 150 Coin

Comanche Mustangs (Discovery Age): Improves cavalry speed by 10%.
Cost: 200 Wood , 200 Coin

Comanche Warrior Societies (Fortress Age): Comanche attack and HP raised by 25%.
Cost: 200 Wood , 150 Coin

Comanche Champions (Industrial Age): Comanche attack and hitpoints raised by 40%.
Cost: 400 Wood , 300 Coin

UsefulnessEdit

• Comanche trade language is best used with home city cards that reduce the coin costs of upgrades or units.
• Comanche horse breeding will also effect light infantry, specifically Eagle Runner Knights, Coyote Runners, Disciples, Rattan Shields, and Tiger Claws. Some civilizations are able to send the rattan shields and tiger claw mercenaries as shipments while disciples are unique to the Chinese and the remaining units are unique to the Aztecs.
• Comanche mustangs can be extremely useful to civilizations that have unique cavalry units, such as the Spanish Lancer, French Cuirassier, and Russian Oprichnik.
• All native tribes can only be upgraded to Legendary/Exalted status at the Town Center or Capitol, they can be upgraded to Elite/Disciplined or Champion/Honored for free through some Home City shipments.
• Civilizations can remove the upgrade gold costs, or cut the upgrade costs in half depending on their home city cards.

In-game dialogueEdit

They speak Comanche, a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family.

mia

mi lik you

ali or hani

haa "yes"

tug wa suoh! (attack)

tu gen! (attack!)

GalleryEdit

Comanche trading post icon.

The Comanche horse archer as it appears in-game.

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