Mapuche

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

Overview
The Mapuche are available as allies on the Araucania map only. Once a trading post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Mapuche ironwood clubmen and research available upgrades.

Units
The Mapuche ironwood clubman is similar to a pikeman type unit, except they inflict more damage versus cavalry and slightly less versus buildings. They can be potent building destroyers if the Mapuche tactics upgrade is purchased.

Upgrades
Mapuche upgrades focus on increasing an allies gold reserves and anti-building attacks.

Mapuche Ad-mapu (Discovery Age): Reduces unit coin costs by 10%.

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Mapuche Tactics (Discovery Age): Inreases the anti-building attack of all infantry by 50%.

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Mapuche Treaty of Quillan (Discovery Age): Ships a crate of for every two minutes of game time, up to half an hour.

Cost: ,

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

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

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Usefulness

 * Mapuche Ad-mapu has been patched, reducing coin costs by 10% instead of 20%.
 * Mapuche tactics is strong for any civilization, however it is incredibly powerful for the Japanese, boosting their basic samurai anti-building attack to 100.
 * Combined with Onin War the total samurai anti-building damage jumps to 125, for Ashigaru musketeers it becomes 39.
 * The upgrade can be reduced to 100 of each resource through use of the Native Learning card.

In-game dialogue
They speak Mapudungun, an isolated language which means it is unrelated to any language.


 * kumen
 * chem? "what?"
 * makmo
 * yaafun (attack)