Elephant (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the pet and the treasure guardian in Age of Empires III. For other uses, see elephant.

Aiz the Tame Elephant
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Pet Hand infantry Sees stealth
Training
Trained at	Bandit Catamaran
Cost	500 Food
Train time	30 seconds
Train limit	2
Statistics
Hit points	800
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.0
Line of Sight	12
Train XP	50
Kill XP	50
Hand attack
Damage	25 Hand
Area of Effect	1
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	1.2x vs. Guardian 0.1x vs. Villager

“	An exceptionally intelligent elephant who enjoys surprises. Good against Treasure guardians.	”
—In-game description

Aiz the Tame Elephant is a pet in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals. It can only be trained from Bandit Catamarans on the Horn and Swahili Coast maps. It is the strongest of all pets, having the most hit points and damage.

Upgrades

Aiz the Tame Elephant, like all other pets, is automatically upgraded in every Age up.

• +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)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Speed	Push of Pike (+10%; Swedes only) Apache Endurance (+5%) Wind Horses (+0.5)
Train time	Immigrants (-10%) New Mexico Immigration (-10%; United States only) Strangers' Quarters (-10%; Africans only)
Cost	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%)
Penalties	Push of Pike (+10% train time; Swedes only)

Home City Cards

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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)

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
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)

• "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.

Treasure guardian

Elephant Guardian
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Guardian
Civilization(s)	Mother Nature
Statistics
Hit points	500
Speed	7.0
Line of Sight	9
Kill XP	28
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5

The Elephant Guardian is a treasure guardian in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals. It is the largest land treasure guardian animal and can be found in various African maps.

Trivia

• The Aiz the Tame Elephant reuses the Riderless Elephant portrait for the Definitive Edition.
• Aiz the Tame Elephant is a reference to Aizamk (also known as Aiz), a popular player in the Age of Empires III community who is known for his unorthodox and astonishing strategies. Hence the description of this unit, "An exceptionally intelligent elephant who enjoys surprises".

Gallery

Aiz the Tame Elephant in combat

Elephant Guardians guarding the Baobab treasure