Thuggee

The Thuggee is an Indian mercenary unit featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

Overview
The Thuggee is an Indian rifle-weilding mercenary unit in that has a good ranged attack. The attack exceeds almost any standard and most upgraded ranged units attack (56 ranged damage) by a great margin, and they can really deal damaging blows to most infantry.

History
The Thuggee were a cult of Indian robbers and murderers operating primarily between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Traveling in bands of twenty to one hundred men, they befriended wealthy travelers, waited for the right opportunity to strike, and then killed their victims before looting their corpses. They were famous for using their rumals, which was traditional head wrap, as a weapon. It was usually used for choking, but they sometimes put a coin in it to either speed up the choking process, or so the rumal could be swung around.