Cetbang Cannon

Cetbang Cannon
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Artillery
Civilization	Indonesia
Age	Revolution
Training
Trained at	Artillery Foundry Fort Galleon Fluyt Wokou Junk
Wood	100
Coin	200
Training time	30 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resists	75% vs. Ranged
Speed	3.5
Line of Sight	26
Population	2
XP train bounty	30
XP bounty	30
Siege attack
Damage	55
Multipliers	×6.0 vs. Ship ×3.0 vs. Infantry ×0.5 vs. Arrow Knights
Range	26
Area of Effect	1
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	Light mobile cannon that can fire and reposition quickly. Good against infantry and ships.	”
—In-game information

The Cetbang Cannon is a revolutionary artillery in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to Indonesia and can be trained at the Artillery Foundry, Fort, and Wokou Junk.

Overview

The Cetbang Cannon is similar to the Japanese Flaming Arrow, but weaker, less powerful, has less area of effect, and has less range. However, the Cetbang Cannon has higher speed and rate of fire, and cheaper while also using up less population. It has the same multipliers as the Flaming Arrow, but with slightly better multiplier against ships. Unlike the Flaming Arrow, the Cetbang Cannon has no multiplier against buildings.

Further statistics

As Cetbang Cannons are unique to Indonesia, only technologies that their base European civilizations have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry, ships, buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, Culverins, Arrow Knights
Improvements
Hit points	Professional Gunners (+10%)
Attack	Heated Shot (+1.5x multiplier vs. ships)
Sight	Town Watch (+2) Gunner's Quadrant (+6)
Speed	Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Creation speed	Quechuan Diet (-10%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Penalties	Coffee Trade (-10% speed, Dutch only)

Home City Cards

As Cetbang Cannons are unique to Indonesia, only their base European civilizations' cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables (for the base civilization, non-TEAM cards will only be applied if they are sent before revolting):

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Cetbang Cannon

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Purple: Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE number of times Chinese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Engineering School Artillery, Grenade Trooper, siege unit, Black Flag Army, and Mongolian Army train time -15%; Heavy Cannon, Rocket, Great Bombard, and Flying Crow train time -5% 25 "TEAM Engineering School" is also available to the Swedes (in the Industrial Age). Europeans Card Description Age HC level TEAM Artillery Hitpoints Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% hit points 10 "TEAM Artillery Hitpoints" is available to Ottomans and Portuguese (in the Fortress Age). Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Indonesia Card Description 4 Cetbang Cannons Ships 4 Cetbang Cannons Portuguese Card Description Age HC level Engineering School Artillery train time -30%; Heavy Cannon train time -10% 25 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

In-game dialogue

Depending from which civilization Indonesia revolted from, the Cetbang Cannon uses either Dutch or Portuguese Falconet's dialogue files.

History

First used by the Majapahit Empire, the cetbang, derived from the Chinese word chongtong, is a piece of light artillery which are found in two types: Eastern-style and Western-style. Eastern-style cetbangs are loaded from the front, typically fire arrow-shaped projectiles, sometimes tipped with explosive or incendiary, and are usually found in fixed mounts on ships or emplacements. On the other hand, Western-style cetbangs are loaded from the breech, fires round projectiles including "case" shots, and are light enough to be man-portable or mounted on swivels or carriages.

Gallery

Eight Cetbang Cannons

Cetbang Cannon close up

The Cetbang Cannon fires round shots