| “ | Long-range, accurate Cherokee archer. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Cherokee Archer is a unit exclusive in the campaign. The unit appears in Age of Empires III Act II: Ice, in the first and second scenarios.
Overview[]
John Black and Ká:nien, along with colonists and local mercenaries have to defend the colony of Brunswick against hostile Cherokee, who have been manipulated by the villainous Englishman Warwick to attack the colony and capture Stuart Black, who is believed to know the location of the Fountain of Youth, being a son of Morgan Black.
History[]
| “ | Cherokee archers used distinct bows with diamond-shaped grooves (called "nocks") at each end to hold the bowstring. The bows were often made from Bois d'arc, and had bowstring of deer sinew. To test their skills, archers competed against each other in games known as cornstalk shoots. Dried cornstalks were used as targets because they wouldn't break arrow tips. | ” |
Changelog[]
Age of Empires III[]
- The Cherokee Archer is tagged as shock infantry.
Knights of the Mediterranean[]
- With a later update, the Cherokee Archer is tagged as light infantry and foot archer and no longer tagged as shock infantry.
Trivia[]
- The Cherokee Archer uses the same in-game model as the Tupi Blackwood Archer and his unit portrait is the same one used by the Cherokee Rifleman.
- Because of an apparent oversight from the developers, probably due to the unit appearing only in the campaign, until an update of Knights of the Mediterranean, the Cherokee Archer had both the
AbstractInfantryandAbstractLightInfantrytags, which made it vulnerable to both counter-infantry and counter-cavalry units. The same also happened with the Native Boy.
Gallery[]
Cherokee Archer stats
From left to right: Cherokee Archer, Cherokee Horse Archer, Aztec Chief
