Mercenaries (Age of Empires III)

Mercenaries are specialist units in Age of Empires III, which are improved versions of regular units. They can be shipped from the Home City or trained in the Saloon (Monastery for Asian civilizations).

Overview
Mercenaries are available from the Fortress Age with a high Coin cost (1000 coin for Fortress Age shipments of a large squad and 2000 for Industrial Age shipments of small armies of varied units) but uses up less population. The types of mercenaries available on the Saloon or Monastery depends on the map and are randomly available every game.

Although not technically a mercenary, the shipments provided by the "improved Church" cards function similarly to mercenaries, such as Kalmucks (Dragoons) for the Russians and L'Armée D'Imperial (27 Grenadiers by the Industrial Age) shipments for the French, as the player pays a load of resources and can only order them once, although this doesn't use up any of their Home City shipments.

Outlaws
Outlaws are mercenary-like units available in the Saloon or Monastery from the Colonial Age with a lower coin cost but uses up more population than actual mercenaries. The available outlaw units depends on the map.

List of mercenaries
Units with an asterisk (*) requires the Atonement Home City card to be trained at the Monastery.

Trivia

 * Mercenaries are not available in the demo version.