The Carib are a Native American tribe in Age of Empires III. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post or Tambo at their Trading Post site.
Units[]
Carib Blowgunner: Short-ranged missile unit that fires poison darts. Good against infantry.
Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
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 Carib Kasiri Beer
|
250 food 250 coin |
Hand infantry and archer damage +10%; Carib Blowgunners' and Carib Ambushers' ranged attack inflicts poison damage; Poison lasts 6 seconds |
 Carib Garifuna Drums
|
150 food 150 coin |
Archer bonus damage against villagers +1.0 | |
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 Carib Ambush Party
|
200 wood 200 coin |
Enables heroes to train Carib Ambushers |
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 Carib Ceremonial Feast
|
400 wood 400 coin |
Upgrades Carib Blowgunners and Carib Ambushers to Feast Warriors (hit points +50%); requires Champion Carib |
Strategy[]
Carib technologies focus on boosting archer damage versus villagers, infantry attack, and allowing heroes to train an ambush party.
The Carib upgrades are purely military-focused. The Carib Kasiri Beer upgrade is very powerful for civilizations like the Aztecs, Inca, and Japanese that have many hand infantry units and archers, both on foot and mounted, increasing their damage by 10%.
Carib Garifuna Drums is a powerful improvement that makes archers more lethal against villagers. This is very powerful for civilizations with archers both on foot and mounted, doubling the damage against villagers and devasting the enemy's economy.
The Carib Blowgunner is a useful short-range unit against all infantry in general, and with the Caribbean Kasiri Beer, Caribbean Cremonial Feast, and Garifuna Drums technologies, it can be a very effective unit with high damage and high hit points.
In-game dialogue[]
Historically the Caribs spoke their own language, but since the Carib language is now extinct, the closely related Taíno/Arawak language is used instead.
- Select 1 Guazabara - Warrior/War
- Select 2 Han? - Yes?
- Move 1 Boria - Work
- Move 2 Guaiba - Go/Leave or Gwama - Chief of a tribe
- Attack 1 Bara! - Kill!/Death!
- Attack 2 Ri - Valiant/Valor/Brave spirit
History[]
| “ | The Carib people are believed to have migrated from the rainforests of modern Venezuela to several of the more eastern and southern islands in the Caribbean, which takes its name from this tribe. They were skilled dugout canoe builders and had the use of sails. They were the fiercest warriors in the area, adept with the blowgun and bow and arrow. Unlike the more peaceful neighboring tribes they displaced, the Carib culture valued the exploits of warriors most highly. The Spanish tended to avoid Carib-controlled islands after a number of early skirmishes. Carib cannibalism was reported by Columbus and other Spanish explorers, and may have been part of their religious rituals and war practice. In 1503 Queen Isabella of Spain ruled that cannibals could be taken legally for slaves, providing an incentive to identify potential laborers as such. By the seventeenth century other European nations wanted the Carib islands for sugar plantations and the local population was almost annihilated. In 1796 the British deported most of the remaining 5,000 Caribs to an island off Honduras. They spread from there into the mainland and survive today in Guatemala and on a reservation in Dominica. Words of Carib origin that remain in common use today include hammock, iguana, and hurricane. |
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