Desert Raider

Desert Raider
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Cavalry Heavy cavalry Melee cavalry Outlaw
Civilization	Africans
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Watch Tower
Food	50
Coin	130
Training time	34 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	280
Resists	30% vs. Ranged
Speed	6.75
Line of Sight	15
Population	3
XP train bounty	28
XP bounty	28
Melee attack
Damage	30 (deals Siege damage)
Rate of Fire	1.5
Siege attack
Damage	15
Multipliers	×2.0 vs. Ship
Range	6
Rate of Fire	1.5

“	Plundering Desert Raider. Good against buildings.	”
—In-game description

The Desert Raider is a heavy cavalry outlaw in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that can be trained by African civilizations at the Watch Tower.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Shock infantry, artillery, buildings
Weak vs.	Heavy infantry
Improvements
Hit points	Comanche Horse Breeding (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Attack	Yoga (+5%)
Speed	Comanche Mustangs (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Creation speed	Cheyenne Horse Trading (-25%) Quechuan Diet (-25%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)

Home City Cards

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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team French Card Description Age HC level TEAM Hand Cavalry Attack Heavy cavalry and Coyote Runners get +15% attack 10 Germans Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cavalry Attack Heavy cavalry, light cavalry, and shock infantry get +15% attack 10 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Russians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cavalry Scouts Cavalry and shock infantry get +10% hit points and +4 LOS 1 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

The African Royals

• Originally, Desert Raiders cost 50 food, 100 coin, train in 20 seconds and had 20 siege damage. With hotfix 39346, Desert Raiders cost 50 food, 130 coin, train in 34 seconds and have 15 siege damage.

In-game dialogue

The Desert Raiders speaks Kabyle/Taqbaylit using dialogue files of the Berbers, specifically those of the Berber Camel Rider, which, in turn, are reused from Berbers' military units' dialogue files in Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms.

History

“

The deserts and plains of Africa played host to many nomadic and pastoralist groups. While some were largely peaceful, others practiced a far more predatory existence and raided rival groups and sedentary settlements to capture or extort resources.

”

See also

• Desert Warrior
• Desert Archer