The Cheyenne Rider is a heavy cavalry good versus artillery and light infantry. One of its features is it has multipliers against cavalry and shock infantry, which can be enhanced with Cheyenne Fury, boosting its performance as all-rounding heavy cavalry like Chinacos, but only vulnerable to light cavalry and heavy infantry. This weakness can be negated by combining with light infantry.
Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans)
Native Alliance
Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
Native Warriors
Native warriors cost -25% (also +3 Uhlans for the Germans)
Native Warrior Combat
Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack damage
TEAM Native Weapon Trade
Native warrior train limit +20%
Blood Brothers
Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined/Veteran and Champion/Honored/Royal Guard (if not already); Native Embassies get +40% hit points and +5 build limit (also +4 Uhlans for the Germans)
Cavalry train time -40%; Cuirassier and Oprichnik train time -35% instead; Gatling Camel train time -20% instead (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
"Cavalry Damage" is available to the British and Lakota.
"Cavalry Hitpoints" is available to the British and Haudenosaunee.
"Cavalry Combat" is available to the British, Dutch, French, Italians, Lakota, Mexicans, Ottomans, Russians, and Spanish.
"Native Treaties" is available to European (except the Maltese) and Native American, and ships 2 Cheyenne Riders if the player had built a Trading Post on a Cheyenne settlement.
"Native Alliance" is available to the Aztecs, Inca, Indians, and Japanese.
"Native Warriors" is available to Europeans and Native Americans (except the Haudenosaunee).
"Native Warrior Combat" is available to the French, Haudenosaunee, Inca, and Mexicans (upon revolting to the Maya).
"TEAM Native Weapon Trade" is available to the Dutch, Native Americans (except the Inca), and also British and French upon revolting to Canada.
"Blood Brothers" is available to the Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Lakota, Portuguese, Russians, and Spanish.
"Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.
"Riding School" is available to Europeans (except the Maltese and Spanish) and Indians.
Each different allied native tribe sends a large shipment of their respective native warriors and upgrades them to Elite and Champion (if not already); native warriors train time -10%; native warrior shipments and "Native Treaties" arrive time -50%; costs 500 food, 500 wood
"Indian Friendship" is available to the United States and "Chimayo Genizarios" to the Mexicans.
"Indian Friendship"/"Chimayo Genizarios" ships 4 Cheyenne Riders if the player had built a Trading Post on a Cheyenne settlement.
The player gains +10% XP from training units and other players receive -10% XP from defeating them; Sansculottes gather resources from Crates 50% faster; food from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 25% faster; wood from trees and Mango Groves and coin from mines 20% faster; food from huntable and herdable animals, Mills, Farms and coin from Estates 15% faster
"Cult of the Supreme Being" is available upon revolting to Revolutionary France.
Temporarily reveals all enemies and treasures; Axe Riders can loot treasures for double the resources or XP; hand cavalry get +2.0 attack bonus damage against treasure guardians
TEAM Mustangs
Cavalry and shock infantry cost -10%
Black Arrow
Native warriors train time -85%
Winter Counts
Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP
Delivers 1 Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game including this one; unit train time (except Heavy Cannons), technology research time, and age-up time -10%; costs 250 food, 250 wood
Seminole Ponies
Delivers 9 Hussars; hand cavalry get +15% hit points and attack damage, and +5% speed; cavalry train time -10%
Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans)
1
Native Warriors
Native warriors cost -25% (also +3 Uhlans for the Germans)
10
Native Warrior Combat
Native warriors get +25% hit points and attack damage
25
TEAM Native Warrior Societies
Native warrior train limit +30%
25
Blood Brothers
Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined and Champion/Honored (if not already) (also +4 Uhlans for the Germans)
25
Riding School
Cavalry train time -40% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Villager for the Indians)
10
"Cavalry Combat" is available to the Dutch, Ottomans, Russians, and Sioux.
"Native Treaties" is available to Europeans and Native Americans, and ships 3 Comanche Horse Archers if the player had built a Trading Post on a Comanche settlement.
"Native Warriors" is available to Europeans and Native Americans.
"Native Warrior Combat" is available to the French and Iroquois.
"TEAM Native Warrior Societies" is available to the Dutch and Native Americans.
"Blood Brothers" is available to the Aztecs, French, Germans, Iroquois, Portuguese, Russians, Sioux, and Spanish.
"Riding School" is available to Europeans and Indians.
The Cheyenne Rider costs 40 food, 110 wood, gives 15 XP when trained or killed, trains in 30 seconds, and has 320 hit points.
Definitive Edition[]
The Cheyenne Rider costs 95 food, 90 wood, gives 18 XP when trained or killed, and trains in 40 seconds. It has a ×1.5 multiplier against cavalry and ×1.25 multiplier against shock infantry.
Knights of the Mediterranean[]
With update 13.12327, the Cheyenne Rider portrait and in-game model has been updated.
With update 13.58326, Cheyenne Riders have 300 hit points and give 19 XP when trained or killed.
To the Native peoples of the North American plains, the horse represented both freedom and power. Horses were prized possessions to the Cheyenne, and were significant spoils of war. When armed with a lance, a mounted Cheyenne warrior presented a fearsome foe.
Before Cheyenne warriors engaged in battle, their leaders carefully planned their raids in detail. To kill one's enemy in battle was of course a good thing to the Cheyenne warrior. But of even greater importance was the act of touching a living, unhurt man and leave him unscathed, a practice known as "counting coup." The bravest warriors were known to go into battle with only a coup stick, a twig or carved piece of wood, sometimes decorated with fur or feathers.
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Gallery[]
An in-game Cheyenne Rider
Updated in-game Cheyenne Rider
Updated Cheyenne Rider image from the Compendium section