Compunction

Compunction
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Civilization	Asians
Age	Fortress Age*
Research
Researched at	Monastery
Food	250
Wood	250
Research time	30 seconds
Effect
Outlaw hit points and damage +20%, train time -50% Outlaw and treasure guardian hit points and damage +30% in the Industrial Age, +50% in the Imperial Age

“	Outlaw-type units (Wildwest, Wokou, Maratha, etc) are recruited much faster and gain more attack and hitpoints with each Age-up.	”
—In-game description

Compunction is a technology in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that can be researched by Asian civilizations at the Monastery once the Fortress Age is reached. Once researched, it increases the hit points and damage of outlaw units by 20%, and decreases their train time by 50%.

Since the Definitive Edition, it also further increases the hit points and damage of outlaws and treasure guardians by 30% in the Industrial Age, and by 50% in the Imperial Age (to a total of +100% for outlaws and +80% for treasure guardians).

Changelog

The Asian Dynasties

• Compunction is available in the Industrial Age, costs 400 food, 500 wood, and increases hit points and damage by 35%.

Definitive Edition

• Compunction is available in the Fortress Age, costs 250 food, 250 wood, increases hit points and damage by 20%, and reduces training time by 50%.

Trivia

• Before update 14.43676, the Atonement Home City Card available for all Asian civilizations had the same icon as the Compunction technology.

See also

• Folk Heroes – European equivalent
• Nomadic Bandits – African equivalent
• Wild West – Federal American equivalent