Resists

The concept of Resist in Age of Empires 3 is very similar to the hack and pierce armor displays from the previous games. Unlike its predecessors however, a unit cannot have both hack and pierce defenses. Units can only have one or the other and never both. The resist is displayed as a decimal number on the in-game unit stat table followed by either a sword or a crossed musket symbol. The sword symbol dictates that the unit has hack armor and is armored against hand attacks. The crossed muskets means that the unit is defended against ranged attacks, but not hand attacks or siege attacks (siege attacks are displayed by units who have a cannon symbol on their attack stats). The number (say 0.30) is transferred as a percentage (30%) to calculate how much the enemies attack is actually deducted