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The Comanche are a Native American tribe in Age of Empires III. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post at their Trading Post site.

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Technologies[]

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

Age Technology Cost Effect
Age I tech tree aoe3
Comanche Trade Language Comanche Trade Language 100 food
100 coin
All technologies and Wonders cost -10% coin
Comanche Horse Breeding Comanche Horse Breeding 150 food
150 coin
Cavalry and shock infantry get +10% hit points
Comanche Mustangs Comanche Mustangs 200 wood
200 coin
Cavalry get +5% speed

In-game dialogue[]

The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family.

History[]

โ€œBefore European contact, the Comanche were part of the Shoshone tribe living along the Platte River in eastern Wyoming. They acquired the horse in the late seventeenth century and thereafter began migrating to the southwest as a separate tribe. They eventually established effective control over a wide area stretching from western Oklahoma, across the Texas Panhandle, and into New Mexico. This area was known as the Comancheria.

They became the expert horsemen of the southern plains and were very skilled with the lance, bow, and arrow. Their population grew because hunting buffalo from horseback provided a dependable food supply. They built up huge herds of horses through breeding and capture, and particularly prized the pintos and painted horses. They built a reputation as fierce and pitiless warriors, fighting both as raiders and as defenders of their stock.

For much of the eighteenth century the Comanche waged war against neighboring tribes, especially the Apaches, and the Spanish based in Santa Fe, Texas, and Mexico. When Americans moved into Texas, the Comanches got into conflict with them. A series of treaties were signed with the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States, but the whites could not stop settler encroachment, which always led to more fighting. Gradually the Comanche were devastated by disease and worn down by military action. They were placed on a reservation, but eventually most of that was taken away and opened to white settlers.
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Civilizations in Age of Empires III
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AmericanFederal American: Flag MexicanDE Mexicans ยท Flag American act3 aoe3de United States
Native American: Flag AztecDE Aztecs ยท Flag IroquoisDE Haudenosaunee (formerly Iroquois) ยท Flag IncanDE Inca ยท Flag SiouxDE Lakota (formerly Sioux)
AsianFlag ChineseDE Chinese ยท Flag IndianDE Indians ยท Flag JapaneseDE Japanese
EuropeanFlag BritishDE British ยท Flag DutchDE Dutch ยท Flag FrenchDE French ยท Flag GermanDE Germans ยท Flag ItalianDE Italians ยท Flag MalteseDE Maltese ยท Flag OttomanDE Ottomans ยท Flag PortugueseDE Portuguese ยท Flag RussianDE Russians ยท Flag SpanishDE Spanish ยท Flag SwedishDE Swedes ยท Polish ยท Danes
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AfricanAkan Settlement Icon Akan ยท Berber Settlement Portrait Berbers ยท Somali Settlement Portrait Somalis ยท Sudanese settlement portrait Sudanese ยท Yoruba settlement portait Yoruba
AsianBhakti aoe3de Bhakti Temple ยท Jesuit aoe3de Jesuit Mission ยท Native shaolin site icon portrait Shaolin Temple ยท Sufi aoe3de Sufi Mosque ยท AOE3DE Tengri Tengri Shrine ยท Udasi aoe3de Udasi Temple ยท Zen aoe3de Zen Temple
EuropeanBourbon icon portrait-1 House of Bourbon ยท Habsburg icon portrait-1 House of Habsburg ยท Hanover icon portrait-1 House of Hanover ยท Jagiellon icon portrait-1 House of Jagiellon ยท Oldenburg icon portrait-1 House of Oldenburg ยท Phanar icon portrait-1 House of Phanar ยท Vasa icon portrait-1 House of Vasa ยท Wettin icon portrait-1 House of Wettin ยท Wittelsbach icon portrait-1 House of Wittelsbach
Native AmericanApache aoe3de Apache ยท Aztec native icon aoe3de Aztecs ยท Carib aoe3de Carib ยท Cherokee aoe3de Cherokee ยท Cheyenne aoe3de pre update Cheyenne ยท Comanche icon aoe3de Comanche ยท Cree aoe3de Cree ยท Iroquois aoe3de Haudenosaunee ยท Huron aoe3de Huron ยท Klamath settlement portrait Klamath ยท Sioux aoe3de Lakota ยท Lenape warrior portrait Lenape ยท Mapuche icon aoe3de Mapuche ยท Maya aoe3de Maya ยท Navajo aoe3de Navajo ยท Nootka aoe3de Nootka ยท Inca native icon aoe3de Quechua (formerly Incas) ยท Seminole aoe3de Seminole ยท Tupi aoe3de Tupi ยท Zapotec icon aoe3de Zapotec
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