Cougar

Buttercup the Pet Cougar
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Pet Hand infantry Sees stealth*
Civilization(s)	All
Age	Exploration Age
Requires	Tupi Animal Lore
Training
Trained at	Town Center Battleship (with the "Brethren of the Coast" card) Hero*
Cost	100 Food
Train time	16 seconds
Train limit	12
Statistics
Hit points	90
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.0
Line of Sight	12
Train XP	10
Kill XP	10
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Guardian 0.1x vs. Villager

“	A tame cougar that is good against guardians.	”
—In-game description

Buttercup the Pet Cougar is a pet in Age of Empires III. It can be either tamed by allying with the Tupi minor native and researching Tupi Animal Lore that allows them to be trained at Town Centers, heroes and Battleships (with the "Brethren of the Coast" Home City Card), or collected as a treasure item. Buttercup the Pet Cougar has a fair amount of hit points, good speed, and has a good bonus damage against treasure guardians.

It can also be found in an Abandoned Cabin treasure as a reward in Andes, Araucania, California, Colorado, Northwest Territory, Rockies, and Texas.

Upgrades

Buttercup the Pet Cougar, like all other pets, is automatically upgraded on each Age.

• +20% hit points and damage
• +30% hit points and damage
• +40% hit points and damage
• +60% hit points and damage

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Treasure guardians
Weak vs.	Villagers
Improvements
Hit points	Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Wind Horses (-10% Rate of Fire)
Speed	Push of Pike (+10%; Swedes only) Apache Endurance (+5%) Wind Horses (+0.5)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Cost	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%)
Train time	Immigrants (-10%) New Mexico Immigration (-10%; United States only) Strangers' Quarters (-10%; Africans only)
Other	Tupi Animal Lore (can be trained at Town Centers, Battleships, and heroes)
Penalties	Push of Pike (+10% train time; Swedes only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Buttercup the Pet Cougar

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Feudal Armies	Unit train time -15%; hero respawn time -15%

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
Western Reforms	Unit hit points and damage +8%
Acupuncture	Unit (except monk) train time -20%; Summer Palace banner army, Flying Crow, and Heavy Cannon spawn time -5%

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Ignatian Spirituality	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +5%, regeneration rate +1.0 (even in combat)

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Brethren of the Coast	Delivers 1 Battleship with 10 Pirates in it; enables Battleships to train American, African and European outlaws (if available), Pirates, Duber the Pet Monkeys, and some pets; costs 1,000 coin
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)

• "Brethren of the Coast" is available to the British and French upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa.

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
Wampum	Unit train bounty +35%, train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead; building build bounty +35%

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military speed +10%

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	Unit all melee attack damage +15%; Rajput hand attack damage +20% instead, +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa speed +5%, Line of Sight +10, training and research work rate +15%; land military train time -20%, artillery and banner army train time -10% instead

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Winter Counts	Unit train bounty +40%; building build bounty +20%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Colegio de San Nicolas	Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
National Servant	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +10%; Padre heal work rate +200%	Imperial Age

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry damage +15%
Archaic Infantry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and foot archer hit points +15%; Rodelero hit points +20% instead
Archaic Infantry Combat	Hand infantry and foot archer hit points and damage +15%
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
Hand Infantry/Hand Cavalry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and hand cavalry hit points +15%

United States

Card	Description	Age
Indiana Mobilization	Delivers 1 Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game, including this one; unit train time, technology research time, Age up time -10%; costs 250 food, 250 wood

• "Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting the Indiana Federal State.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and damage		40
Acupuncture	All units' (except monks, Heavy Cannon, Flying Crow, and Summer Palace banner army) train time -20%		10

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% all melee attack damage; +1 Villager		40
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		25

Sioux

Card	Description	Age	HC level
4 Cougars	Delivers 4 Cougars		1

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% damage		10
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Treasure guardian

Cougar
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Guardian
Civilization(s)	Mother Nature
Statistics
Hit points	115
Speed	7.0
Line of Sight	9
Kill XP	8
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5

The Cougar is a predatory cat featured as a treasure guardian in Age of Empires III. It is, along with the Wolf, one of the most common Treasure guardians in the game, appearing on a plethora of maps. A Cougar is a medium strong Treasure guardian, not quite as strong as a Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, or Polar Bear, and slightly weaker than the Jaguar, but still more powerful than the Wolf, Coyote, and Alligator.

History

“

Scientific Name: Felis concolor Approx. Size: 7 ft. long, 170 lb. Diet: Large and small mammals Also commonly called mountain lion, puma, or panther, the cougar has a tawny, red or gray coat and pale belly. Before European settlement of the New World, cougars and their relatives ranged the length and breadth of North and South America, and though their territory is much smaller now, they have one of the largest ranges of any animal in the New World. They chiefly hunt large mammals, but eat smaller game in the absence of larger game.

”

Fierce Cougar

Fierce Cougar
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Pet Hand infantry Sees stealth*
Training
Cost	60 Food 60 Wood
Train limit	5
Statistics
Hit points	115
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.5
Line of Sight	12
Train XP	12
Kill XP	12
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0× vs. Guardian

“	A hungry cougar that will attack on sight.	”
—In-game description

The Fierce Cougar is a unit specific to the campaign. It appears in the Act III: Steel scenario Journey Through the Andes, where it is part of the Circle of Ossus's army trying to stop Amelia Black.

Gallery

Cougar image from the Compendium section

A player-controlled Cougar in the Definitive Edition