Villager

A Villager or a Settler is a common civilian unit for almost every game of the Age of Empires series.

Game Info
The Villagers are arguably the most important unit in the game because they are able to collect natural resources such as food, wood, stone, gold, and coin. The Villagers are also able to construct buildings, repair them along with Boats and Siege Weapons and if the civilization is attacked they can fight or defend for their towns. In Age of Mythology the villagers of the Norse are replaced into Gatherers which are somewhat less useful villagers because they cannot do tasks such as constructing buildings. Greek Villagers are exactly as their counterparts in AoE series. Egyptian Villagers are known as Labourers and are otherwise same as a regular villager but collect Gold more. Atlantean Villagers are known as Citizens and has with them a donkey which enables them to carry reasrources without the need to visit a droppoint. Villagers are one of your most important resources, because as long as they live, they produce resources and pay for themselves. One of the best ways to disrupt an enemy's plan is by killing is villagers at the beginning of the game, as he will have to make new ones, which will cost him time and resources.

In Age of Empires III most European villagers are now called Settlers, but the Native Americans and Asians are still called Villagers. However the French civilization have more stronger settlers called Coureur des Bois which can collect resources faster and can also double as a weak infantry unit. The German civilization also has a stronger settler unit called the Settler Wagon which is fairly simmilar to the Coureur unit and the citizen unit of Age of Mythology because, it does not need a drop point.