Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are a minor native american civilization in Age of Empires III.

Overview
The Cheyenne are available as allies on the Great Lakes, Great Plains and Rockies maps. Once a Trading Post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Cheyenne riders and research available upgrades.

Units
The Cheyenne rider is similar to the hussar, however it is not as powerful but more cost effective. It requires fewer total resources, and food and wood versus food and coin. With the Cheyenne fury upgrade the unit becomes better at countering enemy cavalry than the hussar.

Upgrades
Cheyenne upgrades focus mostly on cavalry and improving the economy of an ally.

Cheyenne Hunting Grounds (Discovery Age): Sends a shipment of 12 bison to your home city dropoff point.

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Cheyenne Horse Trading (Discovery Age): Reduces the training time of cavalry by 40%, Forbidden Army by 40% and standard/Mongolian/Ming/imperial armies by 20%.

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Cheyenne Fury (Discovery Age): Cheyenne riders now do x2.0 damage versus cavalry.

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Cheyenne Warrior Societies (Fortress Age) Cheyenne riders attack and HP raised by 25%.

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Cheyenne Champions (Industrial Age): Cheyenne riders attack and hitpoints raised by 40%.

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Usefulness

 * Cheyenne hunting grounds is a very cheap and very useful upgrade, spawning huntables right at your town center which makes them easy to secure. The upgrade is also useful for the Japanese as it is enough animals to fill the Toshogu Shrine and then a regular shrine as well.
 * Cheyenne horse trading is a must have in Treaty or Deathmatch games, especially for civilizations which possess unique cavalry units such as the Spanish Lancer, French Cuirassier, and Russian Oprichnik.
 * Cheyenne fury allows the riders to counter enemy hand cavalry very effectively, its high cost can be difficult to cope with in early ages.
 * 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 dialogue
They speak Cheyenne, an Algonquian language.


 * ohe (move)
 * takni
 * ousakago
 * n’asene (kill)
 * naahetanotov (want to fight)
 * aseehe (move camp)