Explorer
From Age of Empires
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| Age | Discovery Age |
| Building | Town Center |
| Type | Infantry/Hero |
| Wood | 0 |
| Food | 0 |
| Coin | 0 |
| Hit Points | 400 |
| Population Cost | Unknown (Please provide) |
| Attack | 4 |
| Range | 6 |
| Resistance | Unknown (Please provide) |
| Speed | Medium |
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The Explorer is a unique Hero Unit that is avaliable for all of the civilizations in Age of Empires III.
[edit] Game Info
The Explorer is a very strong Unit that explores the uncharted areas of the map and also provides economical and military benefits for your growing colony. The Explorer usually is available only once in the beginning of a game and has many special abilities to help himself.
Armed with a powerful rifle the Explorer can use his Sharpshooter ability to pick off one Treasure Guardian in a single shot and later learns Eye of Assasin which can be used on enemy units in a similiar manner. The Portuguese Explorer also has the ability to use his spyglass to see into unexplored territory. The Explorers are also one of the two units in the game (the other being the Settler) that can collect treasures. The Explorer can build a Trading Post to boost your economy and can also build Town Centers while Settlers cannot. The Explorer is also useful because he is immortal, but he can be wounded. If an Explorer takes too much damage, he will "faint," at which point he cannot move and cannot fight. The Explorer can be revived by paying gold or by sending friendly units to his vicinity.
The Explorer is able to explore and fight longer if he has an Explorer Party, which is just a group of friendly units that can back the Explorer up if he has taken too much damage.
The Portuguese have a home city card that allows them to have a total of three Explorers.
The Spanish Explorer can train up to five War Dogs
Every European Civilization has its own Home City card improvement for their Explorer which improves his fighting ability and sends him a Canine Companion (immortal compaired to War Dogs) British Explorer also gains from this the Swashbuckler attack which lets him take down more units in one swing. French gets the power to heal like a Monk. Dutch builds cheaper Town Centers. Germans builds Town Centers and Trading Posts faster. Spanish War Dogs gets also improved from this but the Explorer won't get the Canine Companion Russians take down Treasure Guardians much easly. Ottoman Explorer moves faster. Portuguese are the only explorer which wont get any extra improvements from this card.
Another card gives the Explorer the ability to summon a Hot Air Balloon which helps in exploring.
[edit] Strategy
For how to use this Unit ingame, see the strategy page.
