Gatling Gun

Gatling Gun
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Artillery
Civilization(s)	Revolutionary United States United States (revolutionary)
Age	Fortress Age (United States) Revolution (revolutionary)
Internal name	xpGatlingGun
Training
Trained at	Artillery Foundry Fort Steamer (United States) American Citadel
Cost	100 Wood 250 Coin 4 Population
Train time	38 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resistance	75% Ranged
Speed	: 4.0 : 1.6
Line of Sight	26
Train XP	35
Kill XP	35
Bombard attack
Damage	30 (6) Siege Coffee Mill: 30 Siege
Area of Effect	2
Range	24
Rate of Fire	4.0 Coffee Mill: 0.5
Bonus damage	2.5x vs. Fixed Gun 0.75x vs. Building 0.5x vs. Artillery 0.5x vs. Ship 0.5x vs. Arrow Knight 0.25x vs. Cavalry 0.15x vs. Shock infantry

“	Early automatic-fire weapon. Better against infantry than buildings.	”
—In-game description

The Gatling Gun is an artillery unit introduced in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to revolting European civilizations and can be trained at the Artillery Foundry. A precursor to modern-day machine guns, the Gatling Gun fires at a rapid rate, which tears apart infantry at a brisk pace.

In the Definitive Edition, Gatling Guns are only available to the United States and their revolutionary version. The former can train Gatling Guns at the Artillery Foundry once the Fortress Age is reached and can upgrade them, while the latter can also train Gatling Guns at the Fort but cannot be upgraded.

While the South American (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Gran Colombia, Peru and Revolutionary Mexico, except Haiti) Revolutionary States cannot train Gatling Guns, they can be still shipped from Home Cities.

Overview

The Gatling Gun is unusual compared to the other artillery pieces in the game, with the exception of the Organ Gun. 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.

With the "Coffee Mill Guns" Home City Card, the Gatling Gun is able to fire endlessly without reload. This allows them to deal a huge amount of damage and makes them capable of defeating an entire army if used in large numbers (10-20 units).

Upgrades

The Gatling Gun upgrades are only available to the United States.

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Heavy Gatling Guns	250 food 250 wood	Upgrades Gatling Guns to Heavy Gatling Guns (+25% hit points and damage)
Imperial Age	Imperial Gatling Guns	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Gatling Guns to Imperial (+50% hit points and damage); requires Heavy Gatling Guns

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry, ships, buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, shock infantry, artillery especially Culverins, Arrow Knights
Improvements
Hit points	Professional Gunners (+10%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Smokeless Powder (+5%) Heated Shot (+50% multiplier vs. ships) Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier vs. Frontier fortification)
Speed	Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Line of Sight	Gunner's Quadrant (+6) Town Watch (+3)
Cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Train time	Immigrants (-10%) New Mexico Immigration (-10%; United States only)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Gatling Gun

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Purple	Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE number of times
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Shared

Card	Description	Age
Marion's Diversions	Delivers 2 Quaker Guns; enables Quaker Guns to be trained at Artillery Foundries; artillery speed +5%

• "Marion's Diversions" is available to the United States upon selecting the South Carolina Federal State, and also British, Dutch, French, Italians, and Swedes upon revolting to the United States.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
Siege Hitpoints	Artillery and Flamethrower hit points +15%; grenade trooper hit points +20%
Siege Attack	Artillery and Flamethrower damage +15%; grenade trooper damage +20%
Siege Combat	Artillery hit points and damage +15%; Flamethrower and grenade trooper hit points and damage +20%
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%
Banner School	Banner army train time -30%; Summer Palace banner army spawn time -7%
TEAM Engineering School	Artillery, Fixed Gun, Siege Elephant, Flamethrower, Ram, Mantlet, and Haudenosaunee Mantlet train time -15%; Heavy Cannon, Great Bombard, Rocket, Flying Crow, and Gatling Camel train time -5% instead

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Ignatian Spirituality	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +5%, regeneration rate +1.0 (even in combat)
Italian Firearms	Delivers 3 Li'l Bombards; artillery (except Culverins) attack Area of Effect +25%; costs 2,500 influence

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Engineering School	Artillery, Fixed Gun, Siege Elephant, Flamethrower, Ram, Mantlet, and Haudenosaunee Mantlet train time -30%; Heavy Cannon, Great Bombard, Rocket, Flying Crow, and Gatling Camel train time -10% instead
4 Gatling Guns	Delivers 4 Gatling Guns
Lantakas	Artillery, building, and ship damage +15%
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)
Knox's Continental Artillery	Delivers 5 Consulate Culverins; artillery train time -10%, hit points +10%; Culverin train time -25%, hit points +20% instead; costs 500 wood

• "Engineering School" is available to the French and Swedes.
• "4 Gatling Guns" is available upon revolting to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Gran Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and United States.
• "Lantakas" is available to the Dutch and Portuguese upon revolting to Indonesia.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa.
• "Knox's Continental Artillery" is available to the British, Dutch, French, Italians, and Swedes upon revolting to the United States.

Indians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Odzutsu Mortars	Artillery damage +10%; Samurai Line of Sight +2, siege attack range +1
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrade cost -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
Plan of Veracruz	Transforms all Outposts into Falconets; grants Field Guns; artillery Line of Sight +4; costs 250 food, 250 wood
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
Artillery	Delivers 2 Quaker Guns and random 1 Falconet, Gatling Gun, or Horse Artillery

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Artillery" is available upon revolting to Baja California.

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
Topçular	Artillery, artillery trooper, and grenade trooper hit points and damage +15%

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
Artillery Hitpoints	Grenade trooper hit points +30%; artillery hit points +15%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

United States

Card	Description	Age
TEAM 2 Gatling Guns	Delivers 2 Gatling Guns
Coffee Mill Guns	Replaces Gatling Gun bombard attack with coffee mill attack
Rolling Artillery	Delivers 3 → 2 → 1 Gatling Gun(s); resets after every three uses (4th, 7th, 10th, etc.)
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
Connecticut Shipwrights	War ship train time -50%; building build time -35%; artillery train time -15%, Heavy Cannon train time -10% instead	Imperial Age

• "Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting the Indiana Federal State.
• "Connecticut Shipwrights" is available upon selecting the Connecticut Federal State.

Europeans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Artillery Hitpoints	Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% hit points		10
4 Gatling Guns	Ships 4 Gatling Guns		1

• "TEAM Artillery Hitpoints" is available to the Ottomans and Portuguese.
• "4 Gatling Guns" is available upon Revolution.

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		25

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Artillery Attack	Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% attack		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Gatling Guns are avaliable to all revolutionary civilizations.
• They cost 100 wood, 300 coin, give 40 XP when trained or killed, and train in 45 seconds.

Definitive Edition

• Gatling Guns are only available to the revolutionary United States.
• With the introduction of the United States, they can also train Gatling Guns.
• With update 23511, Gatling Guns cost 100 wood, 250 coin, give 35 XP when trained or killed, and train in 38 seconds.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.9057, Steamers can train Gatling Guns for the United States.
• With update 13.58326, Damage multiplier against Cavalry changed to 0.25x and against Shock Infantry to 0.15x.

Trivia

• Originally, the Gatling Gun shared the same portrait as the Organ Gun in-game, even though it had its own portrait in the game files (as seen above) which was used by the 4 Gatling Guns Home City Card in the Revolution Deck. That was fixed in the Definitive Edition.
• The Gatling Gun has 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 1874 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 history 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.
• If the player is playing with the Portuguese and researches the Rabaulds upgrade at the Artillery Foundry and then revolts, they will get a Gatling Gun with a unique model. However, this will not affect the unit's statistics. This feature was removed in the Definitive Edition.
  • This model of the Gatling Gun uses a Broadwell Drum, developed in 1870 by Lewis W. Broadwell.
• With the release of the United States civilization, the Gatling Gun received visual upgrades, which change as U.S. Army uniforms evolve over the years:
  • The unupgraded Gatling Gun crew wear uniforms of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), but the Gatling Gun was first fielded for service in 1863 during the American Civil War. This may be a reference to soldiers wearing American Revolutionary Uniforms in the American Civil War. The Gatling Gun model resembles the Colt 1874 Gatling gun, but without the the frame which encases the gun. This visual is also used by the Gatling Guns of the revolutionary civilizations since update 23511.
  • The Heavy Gatling Gun crew wear uniforms similar to those used by the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and the Gatling Gun model resembles a Colt 1874 Gatling gun, with the frame which encases the gun of the model in bronze color. This Gatling Gun model was used by the Gatling Guns of the revolutionary civilizations before update 23511, but the frame which encases the gun of the model were in silver color instead.
  • The Imperial Gatling Gun crew wear uniforms similar to those worn during the American Civil War, and the Gatling Gun model resembles a Colt 1877 "Bulldog" Gatling gun and uses the Accles Drum, developed in 1883 by James George Accles. This crew visual was used by the Gatling Guns of the revolutionary civilizations before update 23511.

History

“

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.

”

Gallery

A Gatling Gun in Bombard mode

A Gatling Gun in Limber mode

A real-life Colt 1874 Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun in Limber mode

The Gatling Gun in Bombard Mode

Gatling Gun model after researching Rabaulds in Limber mode

Gatling Gun model after researching Rabaulds in Bombard mode

Gatling Gun image from the Compendium section in the Definitive Edition. Before update 23511, the Gatling Gun of the revolutionary civilizations used this visual.

The United States' Gatling Gun in Bombard Mode

The United States' Gatling Gun in Limber Mode

The United States' Heavy Gatling Gun in Bombard Mode

The United States' Heavy Gatling Gun in Limber Mode

The United States' Imperial Gatling Gun in Bombard Mode

The United States' Imperial Gatling Gun in Limber Mode

Gatling Guns with the Coffee Mill Guns Home City Card can be highly devastating against most infantry

See also

• Organ Gun – Portuguese equivalent
• Gatling Camel – Mercenary equivalent