Akan Tufohen

Akan Tufohen
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Hero Infantry Heavy infantry Ranged infantry Native warrior Sees stealth
Age	Exploration Age
Requires	Akan Asafo
Training
Train limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	600
Resistance	30% Hand
Speed	4.0
Line of Sight	18
Ability	Claims treasures Builds Trading Posts and Native Embassies Regeneration
Special ability	See Special abilities
Kill XP	100
Healing
Healing	10/s
Range	12
Ranged attack
Damage	23 Ranged
Area of Effect	1
Range	12
Rate of Fire	3.0
Siege attack
Damage	13 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	13 Hand
Area of Effect	1
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	5.0x vs. Cavalry 3.4x vs. Shock infantry
Notes
The Akan Tufohen will respawn at the Home City shipment point 120 seconds after he is killed

“	Powerful African Warchief who gains strength from nearby Native Warriors. Can heal and build. Good against cavalry.	”
—In-game description

The Akan Tufohen is an infantry native hero in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that is available once Akan Asafo is researched.

Overview

The Akan Tufohen is a hero that can collect treasures and build Trading Posts and Native Embassies. He can fight pretty decently, and his ranged and hand attack deal Area of Effect, with the latter having a multiplier against cavalry. His passive aura increases his combat capabilities when allied native warriors are around him, and he can heal other units as well as regenerate his hit points out of battle. Similarly to the Emir and the Ras, if the Akan Tufohen's hit points reach 0, he will collapse and respawn at the Town Center after 120 seconds, provided that the player has an Akan kingdom under their control; if not, a friendly unit must get near him when he has sufficient health.

He can use the Chaos ability to confuse Treasure guardians to attack each other. Unlike the Ras, he cannot upgrade the Chaos ability to Mayhem.

Special abilities

• Chaos: Causes treasure guardians in an Area of Effect of 3 to attack each other for 5 seconds. If the ability targets a single guardian, it will be stunned instead. Groups of weaker guardians (like Baboons) are affected for a shorter duration. 18 range, 90 seconds cooldown.
• Fealty Aura (passive): Increases the Akan Tufohen's hit points by 3% and damage by 1.5% for every allied native warriors in an Area of Effect of 32 around him.

Upgrades

The Akan Tufohen is automatically upgraded in every Age up until the Industrial Age.

• +25% hit points and damage
• +30% hit points and damage
• +40% hit points and damage

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
Imperial Age	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food 1,500 wood	+50% hit points and damage

• The Legendary Native Warriors technology is available in the Capitol for European civilizations and the Mexicans, the State Capitol for the United States, and the Town Center for Asian (as Exalted Natives) and Native American civilizations.
• For African civilizations, native warriors are upgraded automatically and for free.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Cavalry, shock infantry
Weak vs.	Light infantry, artillery, MercType2
Improvements
Hit points	Tlaxcaltec Initiation (+100%; Mexicans only upon selecting Tlaxcala Federal State) Sikh Gurus (+50%) Corselet (+25%; Spanish only) Flint Lock (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%) Knighthood (+1,000) Peerage (+1,000)
Attack	Tlaxcaltec Initiation (+100%; Mexicans only) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack) Peerage (+100% ranged and hand attack)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance) Hualcana (+5% resistance; Inca only)
Speed	Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Other	Akan Asafo (delivers the Akan Tufohen) Akan Fontomfrom (-20% respawn time)
Penalties	Corselet (-15% speed; Spanish only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Akan Tufohen

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry damage +10%; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry damage +15% instead
Native Warrior Combat	Native warrior hit points and damage +15%
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry train time -35%, speed +5%

• "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.
• "Native Warrior Combat" is available to the French, Haudenosaunee, and Inca, and also Mexicans upon revolting to the Maya, and British upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Feudal Armies	Unit train time -15%; hero respawn time -15%

Asians

Card	Description	Age
Native Warrior Hitpoints	Native warrior hit points +30%, speed +10%
Native Warrior Attack	Native warrior train time -25%, damage +30%

• "Native Warrior Hitpoints" is not available to the Japanese.
• "Native Warrior Attack" is not available to the Indians.

British

Card	Description	Age
Captain	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer gets the Swashbuckler ability

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%
Western Reforms	Unit hit points and damage +8%

• "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
Stadhouder	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; Town Center wood cost -50%
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry speed +5%
Ignatian Spirituality	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +5%, regeneration rate +1.0 (even in combat)

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Sevites	Maroon, native warrior, and villager hit points regeneratation rate 0.25%; Yoruba Eso Riders lose 0.35% hit points per second instead, Militiamen lose 1.9% hit points per second, and for both stops at 25% hit points
Louverture Liberation	Delivers 6 Citizens; enables Citizens to be trained at Town Centers for 70 coin; enables Fishing Boats to be trained at Docks; native warrior train limit +20%, speed +5%
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)

• "Sevites" and "Louverture Liberation" are available to the British and French upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa.

French

Card	Description	Age
Voyageur	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer gets the Heal ability
Wilderness Warfare	Coureur des Bois, Cree Coureur des Bois, native warrior, Skirmisher, and Settler hit points +20%
TEAM French Auxiliaries Combat	Native warrior hit points and damage +10%
Cult of the Supreme Being	Unit train bounty +10%, kill bounty -10%; Sansculotte gather work rate for crates +50%, Berry Bush and Cherry Orchard +25%, tree, Mango Grove, mine +20%, huntable animals, herded animals, Mill, Farm, and Estate +15%

• "Cult of the Supreme Being" is available upon revolting to Revolutionary France.

Germans

Card	Description	Age
Buergermeister	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer build work rate for Town Center and Trading Post +100%

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8
Conservative Tactics	Infantry hit points and damage +10%

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
Sahelian Kingdoms	Native warrior hit points and damage +15%; mercenary and outlaw hit points and damage +10%

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military speed +10%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%

• "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	Unit all melee attack damage +15%; Rajput hand attack damage +20% instead, +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Machiavellianism	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer speed +25%, now picks up treasures nearly instantly
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +15%
Schiavoni Swords	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry all melee attack damage +15%

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
Onin War	Infantry siege attack damage +33%

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Moccasins	Infantry speed +10%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
Bailiff	Delivers 1 Lamb of the Creator; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Grand Master now boosts nearby units' build rate by 50%
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Comandante	Hero hit points and damage +50%; the General and Padre get Saber Strike charged attack
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Colegio de San Nicolas	Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
National Servant	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +10%; Padre heal work rate +200%	Imperial Age
Pok Ta Pok	Infantry train time -10%, speed +10%
Cult of the Talking Cross	Hero hit points +1,500, damage +100%, and get more resources from treasures; costs 1,000 food

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Pok Ta Pok" and "Cult of the Talking Cross" are available upon revolting to the Maya.

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
Agha	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer speed +1.0

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
Navigator	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; Explorer's Spyglass ability Area of Effect +6

Russians

Card	Description	Age
Polar Explorer	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; Explorer bonus damage against treasure guardians +2.0
Ransack	Infantry siege attack damage +50%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
Conquistador	Hero hit points and damage +50%; War Dog hit points and damage +20%
TEAM Fencing Instructor	Hero hit points and damage +20% (except Shaolin Masters' Roundhouse Kick attack and Sohei Archers' Sabotage attack)
Peninsular Guerrillas	Ranged infantry damage +20%, musket infantry damage +10% instead; Skirmishers now see the Line of Sight of enemies they attacked for 3 seconds
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
Duelist	Delivers 1 Explorer's Dog; hero hit points and damage +50%; the Explorer gets the Heavy Strike ability
TEAM House of Bernadotte	Heavy infantry hit points +15%

United States

Card	Description	Age
Sheriff	Hero hit points and damage +50%; the General bonus damage against treasure guardian and outlaw +2.0, gets Carbine Attack
United States Army	The General, Minuteman, and heavy infantry hit points and damage +15%

In-game dialogue

Main article: Akan#In-game dialogue

History

“

The tufohen were leaders of the asafo, formidable Akan warrior companies who dominated the Gold Coast. Wielding their deadly characteristic akrafena swords, they represented the height of warrior culture and led their men fearlessly into battle. A tufohen was only as powerful as his retinue, however, and every loss diminished his power.

”

Gallery

Akan Tufohen image from the Compendium section

In-game Akan Tufohen

Akan Tufohen in Volley Mode