Rifle Rider
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| Rifle Rider | |
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| First Appearance | The WarChiefs |
|---|---|
| Light Cavalry | |
| Cost | 120 Food 100 Coin |
| Age Available | Fortress Age |
| Base Hit Points | 205 |
| Pop. Use | 2 |
| Speed | 6.8 |
| LOS | 15 |
| Resists | 30% vs. melee |
| Melee Damage | 11 |
| Melee Multipliers | x3.0 vs. Melee Cavalry x3.0 vs. Heavy Infantry x6.0 vs. Artillery x2.0 vs. Coyote Runner |
| Range Damage | 13 |
| Range Multipliers | x3.0 vs. Melee Cavalry x3.0 vs. Heavy Infantry x6.0 vs. Artillery x2.0 vs. Coyote Runner x6.0 vs. Ship x0.5 vs. Villager |
| Range | 12 |
| Siege Damage | 8 |
| R.O.F. | 1.5 / 3.0 (Siege) |
Rifle Rider is a light/melee cavalry unit in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs.
Overview
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The Rifle Rider is one of the most significant units available to the Sioux civilization. These Cavalry units are the Native American version of a Dragoon, but unlike Dragoons, they are good against Heavy Infantry. They have a good ranged attack and hit points, but another advantage is their rapid rate of fire, at 1 hit every 1.5 seconds. That means they can easily kill large numbers of Heavy Infantry units such as Musketeers, Pikemen, Rodeleros and Halberdiers in a short period of time. Their fast rate of fire is due to the rider using a repeating rifle instead of a single shot-reload rifle like the Skirmisher.
Though they are very well rounded, they fare poorly against most light infantry, and light cavalry, because unlike other light cavalry, they are also classified as melee cavalry, where light cavalry has a multiplier against.
It is a good idea to combine a group of Rifle Riders with several Axe Riders; the Rifle Riders can break through the enemy's line of Musketeers and Pikemen, allowing the Axe Riders to reach the Skirmishers or Artillery they were protecting and eliminate them. Rifle Riders are one of the most powerful units in the game; they can even kill elephants, most mercenaries and Great Bombards without dying.
History Edit
Rifle Riders started to appear when guns were made available to the Native Americans in the 1800s by the fur traders, and/or trading posts that dotted the landscape. This time also marks the fall of the northern Native American way of life.
