Black Brunswicker

Black Brunswicker
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Gunpowder infantry Musket Infantry Ranged infantry Native warrior
Age	Fortress Age
Abilities	Combat Promotion
Training
Trained at	Trading Post or Tambo on a House of Hanover palace Native Embassy
Food	75
Coin	50
Training time	35 seconds
Training limit	15 per House of Hanover palace
Statistics
Hit points	135
Resists	20% vs. Melee
Speed	4.75
Line of Sight	16
XP train bounty	12
XP bounty	12
Melee attack
Damage	13
Multipliers	×3.0 vs. Cavalry ×2.25 vs. Shock Infantry
Rate of Fire	1.5
Ranged attack
Damage	16
Range	14
Rate of Fire	2.0
Siege attack
Damage	21
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	Swift Musketeer. Good against Cavalry. Benefits from promotions.	”
—In-game description

The Black Brunswicker is a gunpowder infantry native warrior in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that can be trained at a Trading Post built on a House of Hanover palace.

Overview

Black Brunswickers are ranged heavy infantry, similar to the Musketeer. They are specially effective against cavalry due to their melee multiplier, but vulnerable against artillery and long-ranged infantry units like the Skirmisher.

In comparison with Musketeers, Black Brunswickers are similar in their food and coin cost, Line of Sight, and melee attack. They have less hit points, ranged attack, and train slightly slower, but have higher speed, slightly increased range, and faster Rate of Fire in ranged combat. Combined with Drummers, Home City Cards, and infantry upgrades, Black Brunswickers can further increase their movement speed. In addition, their faster attack speed in ranged combat allows them to perform hit-and-run tactics more easily.

Black Brunswickers benefit from the Combat Promotion. This ability increases their hit points and attack after defeating an enemy military unit, up to a maximum of three enemy units. Black Brunswickers get +15% hit points and attack for the first defeated enemy unit; +30% for the second one; +45% for the third defeated unit. These stats can be higher with Home City Cards or upgrades that increase Musketeer-type units hit points and attack, like Socket Bayonet and Flint Lock.

Upgrades

The Black Brunswicker starts at Veteran level, giving it +20% hit points and attack.

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Royal Guard Hanoverians	350 wood, 350 coin	Upgrades Totenkopf Hussars, Drummers and Black Brunswickers to Royal Guard (+40% hit points and attack); requires Veteran Hanoverians
	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food, 1,500 wood	Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted/Imperial (+50% hit points and attack)

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Cavalry, infantry
Weak vs.	Light infantry, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Flint Lock (+10%) Thin Red Line (+20%; British only) Corselet (+25%; Spanish only) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Cree Tanning (+10%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Socket Bayonet (+20% melee attack) Paper Cartridge (+15%) New Order Infantry (+0.5× melee multiplier vs. cavalry, +0.3× vs. Shock Infantry; Ottomans only) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% melee attack) Armatoloi (+5%)
Armor	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+10% melee/ranged resistance) Hualcana (+5% melee/ranged resistance; Incas only)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Sight	Town Watch (+2)
Creation speed	Standing Army (-25%) New Order Infantry (-20%; Ottomans only) Quechuan Diet (-10%) Akan Fontomfrom (-25%) Philhellenism (-10%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost) Philhellenism (-10%)
Penalties	Thin Red Line (-25% speed; British only) Coffee Trade (-10% speed; Dutch only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost; Germans only) Corselet (-15% speed; Spanish only)

Home City Cards

• Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
• Blue: Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

All

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Native Warriors	Native warriors cost 25% less resources		10
Native Warrior Combat	Native warriors get +25% hit points and attack		25
TEAM Native Warrior Societies	Native warrior train limit +30%		25
Blood Brothers	Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined/Veteran and Champion/Honored/Royal Guard (if not already)		25
Fencing School	Infantry train time -40%		10
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and Shock Infantry get +5% speed and train time -35%		N/A
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points		10

The Native Warriors card is not available to Chinese, Ethiopians, Hausa, Indians, Italians and Japanese.

The Native Warrior Combat card is available to French, Haudenosaunee and Incas.

The Blood Brothers card is available to Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Portuguese, Russians, Lakota, and Spanish.

The TEAM Native Warrior Societies card is available to Aztecs, Dutch, Haudenosaunee and Lakota.

The Fencing School card is not available to Chinese, Haudenosaunee, Japanese, Lakota, Mexicans, Ottomans and Spanish.

The Liberation March card is available to Mexicans and Spanish

The Infantry Hitpoints card is available to Haudenosaunee and Italians.

Africans

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

Asians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Villager for the Indians)		1
Native Warrior Hitpoints	Native warriors get +30% hit points and +10% speed (also +1 Villager for the Indians)		10
Native Warrior Attack	Native warriors get +30% attack and train time -25%		10

The Native Alliance card is not available to the Chinese.

The Native Warrior Hitpoints card is not available to the Japanese.

The Native Warrior Attack card is not available to the Indians.

British

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Musketeer/Grenadier Hitpoints	Musket Infantry and Grenade Trooper get +15% hit points		40

Chinese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and attack		40
Acupuncture	Unit train time -20%		10

Dutch

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

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged Infantry get +5% speed
Temenyas	Gunpowder infantry get +5% attack; Neftenya available in the Commerce Age
Ignatian Spirituality	All units get +5% hit points and regeneration capability even while in combat
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15% (also affects shipments)

French

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Ranged Infantry Attack	Ranged infantry get +15% attack		10
Wilderness Warfare	Coureurs des Bois, Skirmishers, and native warriors get +20% hit points		25
TEAM Improved Native Warriors	Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack		1

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Infantry Attack	Infantry get +15% attack		10
Infantry Combat	Infantry get +15% hit points and attack		25
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 LOS		10

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
Sahelian Kingdoms	Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack; Mercenaries and outlaws get +10% hit points and attack

Incas

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	All land military units get +10% speed
Couriers	Infantry, shock infantry and cavalry train time -45%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Infantry and civilian units get +5% speed; +1 Chasqui
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10%

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% melee attack +1 Villager		40
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and attack		25

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Schiavoni Swords	All cavalry and infantry get +15% hand attack

Japanese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Onin War	Infantry get +33% siege attack		40
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%		1
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +10% speed, +20 LOS and train units 15% faster; Banner army train time -10%; Land military unit train time -20%		25

Lakota

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Moccasins	Infantry get +10% speed		10
Black Arrow	Native warrior train time -85%		10

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Center owned by the player; increases all unit hit points by 2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Chimayo Genizarios	Native warrior train time -10%; Native warrior shipments and "Native Treaties" arrive twice as fast; costs 500 food, 500 wood
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings have their work rate increased by 400% and units have their speed increased by 10%

Portuguese

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

Russians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Ransack	Infantry get +50% siege attack		25
Dueling School	Infantry train time -25%		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Peninsular Guerrillas	Ranged infantry get +25% attack and Skirmishers now see the LOS of enemies they attacked for 3 seconds		N/A
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 LOS		10

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
TEAM House of Bernadotte	Heavy infantry get +15% hit points

United States

Card	Description	Age
United States Army	The General, Minutemen, and Heavy Infantry get +15% hit points and attack
Indian Friendship	Each different allied native tribe sends a large shipment of their respective native warriors; Native warrior train time -10%; Native warrior shipments arrive twice as fast; costs 500 food, 500 wood

The Indian Friendship card ships 4 Black Brunswickers if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Hanover palace.

In-game dialogue

The Black Brunswicker speaks German using the Landsknecht's dialogue files.

Trivia

• Although they were mainly recognized by their black uniforms, other Brunswicker regiments formed by light units, like sharpshooters and Uhlans, wore a green uniform.

History

“

The House of Hanover ruled much of northwestern Germany from the 17th century up through the 20th century. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg recruited an elite force in opposition to French occupation of parts of Germany. This force's black uniforms lent themselves to their colloquial name, the 'Black Brunswickers'. They became known as a force to be feared during Napoleon’s invasion of Spain, but persisted as a deadly force through the remainder of the war and beyond, their insignia of the skull and crossbones heralding the impending doom of their enemies.

”

Gallery

Black Brunswicker image from the Compendium section

An in-game Black Brunswicker