"Early automatic-fire weapon. Better against infantry than buildings."
—In-game description
The Gatling Gun is an artillery in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to revolting European civilizations and can be trained at the Artillery Foundry.
Overview 
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The Gatling Gun is unusual compared to the other artillery pieces in the game, with the exception of the Organ Gun; it is the precursor to modern-day machine guns and fires projectiles at a rapid rate, which is useful in killing enemy infantry units at a brisk pace. The Gatling Gun becomes available to players if they choose to revolt from their European civilization in the Industrial Age. While devastating against infantry they are less effective against cavalry and buildings, doing reduced damage against them. However, due to their high rate of fire they can still do good damage against them if in groups. It is inferior to the Organ Gun in multipliers, attack, range, Line of Sight, upgrades and age, but is available to every civilization.
Choosing George Washington as the revolutionary leader will increase the Gatling Gun's hit points by 25%.
Further statistics Edit
As the Gatling Gun can only be trained by revolutionary civilizations, only improvements available to their respective base European civilizations (including native improvements) are listed here.
| Unit strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Infantry |
| Weak vs. | Cavalry, artillery especially Culverins, light infantry, Arrow Knights, ships |
| Improvements | |
| Hit points |  Professional Gunners (+10%)
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| Attack |  Heated Shot (+1.5x multiplier vs. ships)
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| Sight |  Town Watch (+2) Gunner's Quadrant (+6)
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| Speed |  Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
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| Creation speed |  Incan Chasquis Messengers (-10%)
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| Train cost |  Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
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| Penalties |  Coffee Trade (-10% speed, Dutch only)
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Home City Cards Edit
As the Gatling Gun is exclusive to revolutionary civilizations, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.
Note that for the revolting player themselves, the non-TEAM cards will only apply if they are sent before revolting.
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Europeans
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| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
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 | Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% hit points |  | 10 |
 | Artillery train time -40%; Heavy Cannon/Great Bombard train time -10% | | 25 |
- The TEAM Artillery Hitpoints card is available to Ottomans and Portuguese (at the Fortress Age).
- The Engineering School card is available to French, Ottomans (at a level 10 Home City), and Portuguese.
Indians Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | All units get +5% hit points and attack |  | 25 |
Ottomans Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% attack | | 25 |
Revolutionary Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships 4 Gatling Guns |  | N/A |
Spanish Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | All units get +10 LOS |  | 10 |
Trivia Edit
- Even though the Gatling Gun have its own portrait as shown above, it shares the same portrait with the Organ Gun in-game. The Gatling Gun's own portrait was used by the 4 Gatling Guns Home City Card on the Revolution Deck, though.
- The Gatling Gun have the second fastest rate-of-fire after the Flamethrower, together with the Organ Gun, if every shot from a volley is counted separately.
- The Gatling Gun were originally planned to be trained in the Industrial Age instead of by revolting first.
- The Gatling Gun unit model visually resembles a Colt 1876 Gatling gun. This is slightly anachronistic considering the time period the game and its expansions were set in (between the 1500s and the year 1850).
- The in-game gistory section mentions the Gatling Gun's invention taking place in 1861. In reality, the Gatling gun's final designs were completed in 1862 and the weapon was first fielded for service in 1863 during the American Civil War.
History Edit
"The Gatling gun was invented by Richard Gatling in 1861. Although not precisely a machine gun, it nonetheless offered devastating firepower for its time. The operator of the gun would turn a hand crank, which rotated six gun barrels around a central shaft. Cartridges were continuously fed into the barrels as they made their rotation.
The Gatling gun saw its first limited action on the battlefields of the U.S. Civil War, where its rapid fire of up to 600 rounds a minute proved extremely deadly. The gun was also used in multiple conflicts worldwide during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, until it eventually was replaced by the modern machine gun, with its automatic action."
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