“ | Foot warrior armed with a deadly club. Good against cavalry. | ” |
—In-game description |
The Club Warrior (War Club before the Definitive Edition) is a melee heavy infantry in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Lakota and can be trained at the War Hut once the Commerce Age is reached.
Overview[]
The Club Warrior is effective against cavalry and Shock Infantry. It does hand damage and has a relatively good siege attack. Use the war club as a cavalry counter and a Shock Infantry counter. The Club Warrior acts like a Pikeman to the Lakota with slightly more attack versus other units except cavalry.
It can be combined with Cetan Bowmen to form a cheap combo to take out infantry and cavalry. It can however be defeated by cavalry with a large amount of hit points and splash damage such the Cuirassier, Mahout Lancer, and the Sipahi, or cavalry with a bonus against infantry like Lancer, Jat Lancer, etc.
Upgrades[]
Age | Upgrade | Cost | Effect |
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Elite Club Warriors | 200 wood 100 coin |
Upgrades Club Warriors to Elite (+25% hit points and attack) | |
Champion Club Warriors | 400 wood 200 coin |
Upgrades Club Warriors to Champion (+25% hit points and attack); requires Elite Club Warriors | |
Legendary Club Warriors | 1,500 wood 1,500 coin |
Upgrades Club Warriors to Legendary (+50% hit points and attack); requires Champion Club Warriors |
Further statistics[]
As Club Warriors are unique to the Lakota, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:
Unit strengths and weaknesses | |
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Strong vs. | Cavalry, shock infantry, buildings |
Weak vs. | Light infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery |
Improvements | |
Hit points | Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%) |
Attack | Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack) |
Resistance | Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance) Bonepipe Armor (+10% siege resistance) |
Speed | Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%) |
Train time | War Drums (-33%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) |
Cost | Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%) |
Other | Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost) |
Home City Cards[]
As Club Warriors are unique to the Lakota, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Club Warrior
Some cards are highlighted with: | |
Green | TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team |
Blue | Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds) |
Chinese[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Yongle Infrastructure | Ships 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villagers, healing units, Envoys, and Disciples get +5% speed |
- "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.
Dutch[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Infantry Hitpoints | Infantry get +10% hit points; Dutch-only infantry get +15% hit points instead |
Haudenosaunee[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Scout Infantry | Ships 1 Native Scout; infantry get +8 Line of Sight |
Inca[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Inca Bridges | Ships 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villagers, healing units, and Envoys get +5% speed |
- "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.
Indians[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Shivaji's Tactics | All units get +5% hit points and attack |
Japanese[]
Card | Description | Age |
---|---|---|
TEAM Sengoku | Unit upgrades cost -20% |
Lakota[]
Card | Description | Age |
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6 Club Warriors | Ships 6 Club Warriors | |
9 Club Warriors | Ships 9 Club Warriors | |
7 Club Warriors | Ships 7 Club Warriors | |
Territorial Claims | Cetan Bowmen get +10 siege attack range; Club Warriors get +50% siege attack | |
Moccasins | Infantry get +10% speed | |
Seven Council Fires | Ships 4 Club Warriors and 3 Wakina Rifles; upgrades Cetan Bowmen, Club Warriors, and Wakina Rifles to Champion (if not already); costs 250 coin | |
Akichita | All Lakota warriors get +20% hit points, but get reduced multipliers against Villagers; Tashunke Prowlers get -0.75×; Cetan Bowmen, Club Warriors, Wakina Rifles, Axe Riders, and Tokala Soldiers get -0.33×; Bow Riders and Rifle Riders get -0.25× | |
Nomadic Expansion | Lakota infantry can now construct Teepees and Teepees now also boost military building work rate by 100% (effectively reducing train time by 50%) | |
Aggressive Policy | Cetan Bowmen, Club Warriors, and Wakina Rifles can build War Huts and Corrals | |
Winter Counts | Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP | |
Sans Arc Support | Ships 16 Club Warriors and 500 wood; costs 1,000 coin |
Maltese[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Knights of the Round Table | Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center owned by the player; all units get +2% hit points |
Mexicans[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Mariachi | For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed |
Spanish[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Hand Infantry Attack | Hand infantry get +15% attack | |
TEAM Spanish Inquisition | Ships 1 Inquisitor; all units get +10 Line of Sight |
Swedes[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM House of Bernadotte | Heavy infantry get +15% hit points |
Dutch[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
---|---|---|---|
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints | Infantry get +15% hit points | 10 |
Indians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
---|---|---|---|
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics | All units get +5% hit points and attack | 25 |
Iroquois[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
---|---|---|---|
TEAM Scout Infantry | Infantry get +8 Line of Sight | 10 |
Japanese[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
---|---|---|---|
TEAM Cheaper Unit Upgrades | Unit upgrades cost -20% | 1 |
Russians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Dueling School | Infantry (except Skull Knights), Old Han Army, and Territorial Army train time -25%; Black Flag Army, Standard Army, Ming Army, and Imperial Army train time -12% | 25 |
Sioux[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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6 War Clubs | Ships 6 War Clubs | 1 | |
9 War Clubs | Ships 9 War Clubs | 1 | |
7 War Clubs | Ships 7 War Clubs | 10 | |
Wind Runner | Infantry get +10% speed | 10 | |
Uprising | Ships 7 Cetan Bows, 7 War Clubs, and 7 Wakina Rifles | 40 | |
Aggressive Policy | Cetan Bowmen, War Clubs, and Wakina Rifles can build Teepees, War Huts and Corrals | 25 | |
Sans Arc Support | Ships 16 Club Warriors and 500 wood; costs 1,000 coin | 10 |
Spanish[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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TEAM Hand Infantry Attack | Hand infantry get +15% attack | 10 | |
TEAM Inquisition | All units get +10 Line of Sight | 10 |
Changelog[]
The WarChiefs[]
- The unit is named War Club.
- War Clubs have a hand attack of 10 and a siege attack of 27.
Definitive Edition[]
- The unit is renamed to Club Warrior.
- Club Warriors now have a hand attack of 11 and a siege attack of 30.
- Club Warriors can now build Teepees.
Trivia[]
- The weapon used by the Club Warrior is a gunstock war club, an indigenous weapon used by Native Americans. Indigenous tribes of America most likely created the design of the club based upon European firearms.
- The other units that use these clubs are the Axe Rider, Lakota Axe Rider, and Kanya Horseman.
History[]
“ | The Lakota constructed their war clubs out of a variety of substances: stone, wood, bone, antlers, horn, and sometimes incorporated steel blades. The one consistent feature was an efficacy in combat. One blow from one of these deadly weapons could cripple or kill a grizzly bear, let alone a human opponent. | ” |
Gallery[]
In other languages[]
Spanish: Garrote de Guerra