Aztec War Chief

This article is about the War Chief. For the untrainable unit, see Aztec Chief.

Aztec War Chief
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Hero Infantry Hand infantry Sees stealth
Civilization(s)	Aztecs
Training
Cost	200 Coin
Train time	20 seconds
Train limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	500
Resistance	10% Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	18
Ability	Claims treasures Builds Town Centers and Trading Posts Trains Eagle Scouts*
Special ability	See Special abilities
Kill XP	100
Siege attack
Damage	15 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	6 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Guardian 0.25x vs. Villager
Notes
The Aztec War Chief will collapse instead of dying when his hit points reaches 0 and can be revived by having a friendly unit or building around him once he regenerates at least 100 hit points or with War Chief Ceremony at the Community Plaza

“	The leader of your Tribe. Possesses many powerful bonuses and abilities. Explores, fights, builds Town Centers and Trading Posts.	”
—In-game description

The Aztec War Chief is a melee infantry hero in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. In standard random map games, the Aztecs start with an Aztec War Chief. It explores uncharted areas of the map and has some special abilities to help himself and his tribe.

Overview

The Aztec War Chief doubles the experience bounty from kills made by friendly units in a radius of 24 around him. As all War Chiefs do, he can convert human Treasure guardians, detect stealth units, claim Treasures, and build Town Centers and Trading Posts. Like other explorer-type units, the Aztec War Chief will collapse instead of dying and can be rescued once he recovers enough health, although the War Chief Ceremony at the Community Plaza allows the player to return him there after a while as well as increasing his hit points.

Special abilities

• Definitive Edition
• Original

• Recruit Guardian: Recruits a human treasure guardian (with the process taking 4 seconds to complete). 90 seconds cooldown; shared across the Swashbuckler Attack special ability.
• Swashbuckler Attack (requires The Chief Tribal Council member): A sweepping hand attack that damages all units in the area (deals 60 hand damage in a radius of 3 around with ×3.0 multiplier against Treasure guardians, ×0.5 vs. villagers, and ×0.1 vs. MercType2). 90 seconds cooldown; shared across the Recruit Guardian special ability.
• Cuachic Ascension: A powerful area attack that inflicts great damage against Treasure guardians and temporarily improves your War Chief's attack speed (deals 60 hand damage against treasure guardians in a radius of 2 around him, and improves the War Chief's attack speed by 30% for 13 seconds). 60 seconds cooldown.
• Health Regeneration (passive): Regenerates 0.25% hit points per second after 3.5 seconds idle.
• War Chief Support (passive): The Aztec War Chief doubles XP kill bounty from nearby friendly units.

• Nature Friendship: Converts a Treasure guardian to the Aztec War Chief's side with the process taking 4 seconds to complete. 90 seconds cooldown.
• Swashbuckler Attack (requires The Chief Tribal Council member): The Aztec War Chief performs a sweeping hand attack that does 60 (180 against Treasure guardians, 15 against villagers, 6 against Spies and Ninja) hand damage to the target enemy and all enemies in a radius of 3 around him. 90 seconds cooldown.

Upgrades

The Aztec War Chief is automatically upgraded in every Age up.

• +50% hit points and damage
• +100% hit points and +150% damage
• +100% hit points and +200% damage
• +275% hit points and +300% damage

Further statistics

As the Aztec War Chief is unique to the Aztecs, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Treasure guardians, infantry
Weak vs.	Villagers, cavalry, MercType2
Improvements
Hit points	Sikh Gurus (+50%) Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Other	Founder (War Chief aura triples XP bounty) Carib Ambush Party (can train Carib Ambushers) Loyal Nootka War Chief (can train Nootka War Chief) Tupi Animal Lore (can train Buttercup the Pet Cougars)

Home City Cards

As the Aztec War Chief is unique to the Aztecs, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Aztec War Chief

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

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age
High Priest of Ixtlilton	The Aztec War Chief hit points and damage +50%; Warrior Priest worker weight and gather work rate for Community Plaza +10%
Smoking Mirror	The Aztec War Chief speed +25%, hand attack Area of Effect +2

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%

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

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8

Inca

Card	Description	Age
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
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
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
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Fencing Instructor	Hero hit points and damage +20% (except Shaolin Masters' Roundhouse Kick attack and Sohei Archers' Sabotage attack)
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry damage +15%
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age	HC level
High Priest of Ixtlilton	The Aztec War Chief gets +50% hit points and damage, and can train Pet Jaguars		1
Smoking Mirror	The Aztec War Chief gets +35% speed and +2 hand attack Area of Effect		10

Dutch

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points		10

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		25

Iroquois

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 Line of Sight		10

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Explorer Combat	Heroes get +20% hit points and damage (except Shaolin Masters' Roundhouse Kick attack and Sohei Archers' Sabotage attack)		1
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% attack		10
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Random names

• Tenoch
• Acamapichtli
• Huitzilihitl
• Chimalpopoca
• Itzcoatl
• Moctezuma
• Axayacatl
• Tizoc
• Ahuitzotl
• Cuitlahuac
• Tlacotzin
• Motelchiuh
• Xochiquentzin
• Huanitzin
• Tehuetzquitizin
• Cecetzin
• Nanacacipactzin

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Has Nature Friendship which converts all Treasure guardians, human and non-human.
• The "High Priest of Ixtilton" Home City Card allows the Aztec War Chief to train Janey the Pet Jaguars.

Definitive Edition

• Nature Friendship replaced by Recruit Guardian, which converts human Treasure guardians only.
• Receives Cauchic Ascension.
• All special abilities now goes on cooldown when one is used, which is as long as the activated one.
• The "High Priest of Ixtilton" Home City Card now allows the Aztec War Chief to build Nobles' Huts.
• With update 9476, the Aztec War Chief can train Eagle Scouts.

The African Royals

• Although it is not listed in the patch notes, with update 50830, the Aztec War Chief portrait has been updated.

Trivia

• The Aztec War Chief use the same weapon as the Jaguar Prowl Knight, an obsidian sword known by the Aztecs as Macahuitl.
• When idle and in movement, it is possible to see that the Aztec War Chief holds a bow, but he only attacks using the Macahuitl. This is due to the fact that the Aztec War Chief reuses the Explorer's idle and movement animations.

History

“

The most densely populated region of the New World in 1492 was Mesoamerica, the region where North and Central America meet. Among the people living there were the Aztecs (also known as Mexica or Tenocha); they built a complex civilization centered around their great city of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). This was one of the largest cities in the world (with an estimated population of 200,000) and arguably more beautiful and cleaner than most contemporary European capitals. In Aztec society, membership in the calpulli established each individual's religious and secular schooling, as well as how they would be trained in warfare. The men of a calpulli served together in battle and on the numerous public works projects. Their soldiers wielded weapons of wood and stone, and they often sought prisoners to be sacrificed in religious ceremonies.

”

Gallery

The Aztec War Chief in-game

The Aztec War Chief's image from the history section

Another view of the Aztec War Chief in-game

A fallen Aztec War Chief

Aztec War Chief in idle. It is possible to notice it holding a bow.

Aztec War Chief image from the Compendium section

In-game Aztec War Chief in the Definitive Edition

Female Aztec War Chief (Aztec Queen) portrait

In-game Moctezuma skin for the Aztec War Chief

In-game Tonatiuh skin for the Aztec War Chief

In-game Female Aztec War Chief (Goddess)

In other languages

• French: Chef de Guerre Aztèque
• Spanish: Jefe Guerrero Azteca

See also

• Haudenosaunee War Chief
• Inca War Chief
• Lakota War Chief