Mantlet

The Iroquois Mantlet is an infantry unit in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs.

Overview
Iroquois Mantlet has high health, acceptable range, decent attack resistance, but a semi-weak attack. Due to their survivability, Mantlets excel at destroying military and economic buildings. However, in order to use Mantlets properly, a sufficient range between their target must be established.

It is an Iroquois-specific siege infantry unit that has high hitpoints, a decent resistance to damage, and a moderate attack. Since the mantlet uses a ranged attack, it's appropiate to keep their distance. Due to their high health Iroquois mantlets are very good against defensive buildings, ranged units, and artillery.

With some boost from the WarChief, the Iroquois mantlet can have hitpoints that exceeds over 1000 with all upgrades. This allows them to be very effective when deployed in numbers as cannon fodder for protecting units that are weak to range. With the Siege Discipline shipment their population cost is dropped to only 1 which makes mass production of this unit very easy.