Emir

Emir
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Hero Cavalry Light cavalry Ranged cavalry
Civilization	Hausa
Abilities	Claim Treasures Build Town Centers, Trading Posts, Palaces, and Universities Reveal stealth enemies Regeneration
Special ability	See Special abilities
Statistics
Hit points	400
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	5.75 (6.75 from the Commerce Age onwards)
Line of Sight	18
XP bounty	45
Melee attack
Damage	6
Multipliers	×3.0 vs. Treasure Guardian ×1.5 vs. Heavy infantry ×0.67 vs. Inca War Chief ×0.5 vs. Hero ×0.25 vs. Villager
Rate of Fire	1.5
Ranged attack
Damage	12
Multipliers	Same as melee
Range	16
Rate of Fire	3.0
Siege attack
Damage	15
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Notes
The Emir will respawn at the Home City shipment point 120 seconds after he dies

“	Royal Hausa hero with a fealty aura. Explores, fights, builds Palaces, Universities, and Trading Posts. Good against cavalry.	”
—In-game description

The Emir is a ranged cavalry hero in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that is unique to the Hausa. It explores uncharted areas of the map and has some special abilities to help itself and its settlement. In standard random map games, the Hausa starts with an Emir.

Overview

Special abilities

• Chaos: Causes the target Treasure Guardian and other Guardians in an AOE of 3 around them to attack each other for 5 seconds. 18 range, 90 seconds cooldown.
• Fealty Aura (passive): Increases the Emir's hit points by 2% and attack by 1% for every allied (and enemy with the "Kingslayer" Home City Card) military unit in an AOE of 32 around him.
• Tsetse Sabotage (requires the "Tsetse Sabotage" Home City Card): The Emir unleashes a swarm of tsetse flies onto the target enemy building for 40 seconds, during which its work rate is multiplied by 0.25 (i.e. works four times as slow). Cannot be used on buildings already affected by Tsetse Sabotage. 5 range, 160 seconds cooldown.

Upgrades

The Emir is upgraded in every Age until the Industrial Age.

• +25% hit points and attack
• +30% hit points
• +40% hit points

Further statistics

As the Emir is unique to the Hausa, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Home City Cards

As the Emir is unique to the Hausa, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Changelog

The African Royals

• Originally, the Emir had a speed of 6.75 in all Ages, and a x3.25 multiplier vs. Treasure Guardians. With update 13.690, it has a speed of 5.75 in the Discovery Age, and a x3.0 multiplier vs. Treasure Guardians.

Trivia

• Although it attacks using a rifle, the Emir does not have the gunpowder cavalry tag, a tag that all cavalry units that attack using firearms have. The same happens with the Ras.

History

“

Ethiopian and Hausa kingdoms often tended to be united more through cultural commonalities than through political centralization. The Emir, a Hausa prince, could inherit his position through familial lineage, but also did so by gathering followers and attaining a large amount of influence among the local population, which was necessary to retain even an inherited position regardless. Political maneuvering was just as often linked to opportunism and manipulation of volatile situations as it was to building one’s power base.

”

See also

• Ras – fulfills the same role for the Ethiopians
• Explorer – fulfills the same role for European civilizations
• War Chief – fulfills the same role for Native American civilizations
• Monk – fulfills the same role for Asian civilizations
• General – fulfills the same role for the United States and Mexicans
• Padre – fulfills the same role for the Mexicans