Cherokee

The Cherokee are a minor civilization in Age of Empires III.

Overview
The Cherokee are available as allies on the Bayou, Carolina, Ozarks and New England maps. Once a trading post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Cherokee riflemen and research available upgrades.

Units
The Cherokee rifleman is a skirmisher type unit, able to hit heavy infantry hard and then retreat from them if the speed upgrade has been purchased. They have less range than a true skirmisher but have higher hit points and are available in the Colonial Age. They can have their cost reduced to less than a skirmisher through use of home city cards, making them very cost effective versus a true skirmisher.

Upgrades
Cherokee upgrades focus on boosting allied economies and the speed of all native warriors. The settlement also possesses the basic upgrades for Cherokee riflemen.

Cherokee War Dance (Discovery Age): Improves native warrior speed by 20%.

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Sequoyah's Cherokee Syllabary (Discovery Age): Sends a shipment of 4 settlers.

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Cherokee Basket Weaving (Discovery Age): Dock, market, mill and plantation improvements have their wood cost removed.

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Cherokee Warrior Societies (Fortress Age): Cherokee attack and HP raised by 25%.

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

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Usefulness

 * The basket weaving upgrade is extremely useful if using a water boom strategy, as economic upgrades will not cut into wood stockpiles used for training more fishing boats.
 * The upgrade is also useful for India due to their villagers costing wood.
 * 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 Cherokee, which is related to the languages of the Iroquois.


 * Ousakago
 * Osiyo(Hello)
 * Ayisu
 * Adusali
 * Allasadi (attack)
 * Di ga ti lvs di (attack)