Heavy lance cavalry wrapped in sturdy leather and armed with a revolver. Good against artillery and skirmishers. Can gather from livestock and build Livestock Pens.
Argentina and the Maya can also get Cuerudos through the "Outlaw Band" (for Argentina) and "Bandit Gang" (for Maya) Home City Cards, which are included in the pool of random outlaws shipped.
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TEAM Mariachi
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Colegio de San Nicolas
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Vaqueros are tagged as light ranged cavalry, have 20% ranged resistance, a ×2.0 multiplier against cavalry and ×1.6 against hand shock infantry, cost 100 food, have 7.25 speed, and the in-game description is "Cavalry armed with a revolver that attacks with a lance in melee. Can gather from livestock and build Livestock Pens.".
Originally, the unit was named Vaquero. With the release of the Mexican DLC, the unit was renamed to Cuerudo.
Cuerudos can be upgraded to "Charros" with the namesake Home City Card, which gives their hand attack a ×3.0 multiplayer against infantry and a melee range of 2.
With update 13.58326, Cuerudos are no longer affected by the "Charros" Home City Card.
With update 14.43676, Cuerudos are now tagged as heavy cavalry and lancer, have a ×2.5 melee multiplier against light infantry and ×3.5 against artillery, a ×2.0 ranged multiplier against light infantry and ×1.5 against artillery, 40% ranged resistance, 20% siege resistance, costs 50 wood, 50 coin, has 6.5 speed, and the in-game description is "Heavy lance cavalry wrapped in sturdy leather and armed with a revolver. Good against artillery and skirmishers. Can gather from livestock and build Livestock Pens.".
With update 15.30007, now affected by the "Caballeros" card.
With patch 15.30007, Cuerudo cost was changed from 50 wood, 50 coin to 100 food, 60 coin.
As with the Comanchero and Outlaw Rider, Cuerudos appear to use a muzzle-loading pistol, as seen from the movement of their hand at the muzzle of the gun in each shot (despite the weapon in their portrait and in-game model resembling a revolver rather than a muzzle-loading pistol).
Cuerudos wear a sombrero hat which allows them to be differentiated from Comancheros and its other revolutionary variants.
As with other revolutionary variants, all Comancheros' hats will be changed into Cuerudos' sombrero when the player revolts into Mexico, but their stats remain unchanged.
The Mexican DLC changed the original unit's name, Vaquero, to Cuerudo. There is no unit that has been introduced that is named Vaquero; however, the Cuatrero is called deSaloonVaquero in the game files.
Possibly, the Cuatrero was called "Vaquero" before the official release of the Mexican civilization, as can be seen in the trailer preview, where the first Federal Card for Sonora was called "Sonora Vaqueros", and was planned to be the Saloon variant of the Cuerudo, as the Cowboy has a revolution and a Saloon variant.
Contrary to its in-game role as an outlaw, real-life Cuerudos were landowners and muleteers who usually worked on Haciendas.
History[]
Vaqueros are Mexican horsemen who tended to livestock who originates in the Iberian Peninsula. They serve as the inspiration for cowboys in North America.
On the other hand, charros are horsemen from Central Mexico which acts as the counterpart of vaqueros but with distinct differences including clothing, mannerism, and social status. During the Mexican War of Independence, many charros serve for both the Mexican revolutionaries and the Spanish Crown.
Cuerudo is a term that refers to vaqueros or cattlemen who wore clothing made entirely of leather or suede (a type of leather made from the underside of animal skin).