Coureur des Bois

The Coureur des Bois is an improved version of the Settler unique to the French in Age of Empires III. Allying with the Cree also allows for the creation of a limited amount of Coureurs des Bois.

Overview
The Coureur des Bois are a special Villager type that replace Settlers for the French. The Coureurs cost 20% more food (120 instead of 100) and train 16% slower than normal settlers (29 seconds versus 25), but gather resources 25% faster.

Despite higher hit points and a greater attack, Coureur des Bois do not make effective fighters. Their fighting skills can be improved by Home City cards that can make them effective in exploring the map and fighting off treasure guardians.

Tasks
Coureur des Bois can be assigned the same tasks as Settler.

Buildings
Coureur des Bois can build the following buildings:

Discovery Age

 * House, Market, Mill, Livestock Pen, Dock, Outpost, Trading Post, Wall

Colonial Age

 * Church, Barracks, Stable, Artillery Foundry, Saloon (The Warchiefs/The Asian Dynasties)

Fortress Age

 * Arsenal, Plantation

Imperial Age

 * Capitol

Home City Shipments
This is a list of shipments that benefit Coureur des Bois in anyway. 4 Coureurs requires 2 Coureurs to be unlocked. Afterwards 3 Coureurs can be unlocked while Home City is at level 10.

History
"Coureur des Bois is French for "runner in the woods," the name given to a group of French fur traders. They came from all walks of French and colonial French life to hunt and trap animals for their pelts in North America. One of the first native-born Canadian explorers was Louis Joliet, who at a young age determined that he would become a Coureur des Bois. He and a handful of other Coureurs des Bois paddled down the Mississippi river in canoes, determining that it would empty into the Gulf of Mexico, but feared to travel as far as the mouth into the hands of the Spanish. They noted rivers to the west as they went, hoping that one would flow into the seas of China or Japan. He became well-established in the fur trade and had several land holdings that he traveled between. It was on a trip to one of these that he died in 1700."