Hand infantry is a tag from the class system of Age of Empires III, being a subtype of heavy infantry.
There are two types of labels in the game files:
- Pikeman or pike infantry (
AbstractPikeman) are archaic units armed with pikes, also related to attack penalties from Harquebusiers and Mounted Riflemen. - Hand infantry or melee infantry (
AbstractHandInfantry) are generic melee combatants.
Both appear as "hand infantry" in the stats UI, while some technologies and Home City Cards distinguish them.
AbstractPikeman[]
The following units are both AbstractHandInfantry and AbstractPikeman:
The following units are labeled as AbstractPikeman but not as AbstractHandInfantry:
AbstractHandInfantry[]
Although all AbstractPikeman are a subtype of heavy infantry, this does not hold for AbstractHandInfantry.
Heavy infantry[]
Those which are also Heavy Infantry are listed below:
Aztec Jaguar Warrior- Barbary Corsair
- Barbary Warrior
- Boneguard Swordsman
- Changdao Swordsman
- Club Warrior
- Doppelsoldner
- Halberdier
- Hospitaller
- Inca War Chief
- Insurgente
- Jaguar Prowl Knight
- Landsknecht
- Maceman
- Mansabdar Rajput
- Mapuche Ironwood Clubman
- Ninja
- Nootka Clubman
- Nootka War Chief
- Poruchik
- Rajput
- Rodelero
- Ronin
- Samurai
- Skull Knight
- Wokou Ronin
- Yamabushi
- Zapotec Lightning Warrior
All hand shock infantry and all pets, with the exception of the cheat unit Fluffy, also have the AbstractHandInfantry tag.
Hand shock infantry[]
Pets[]
- Aiz the Tame Elephant
- Axehilt the Tame Tiger
- Big Jerome the Pet Polar Bear
- Buck the Tame Wolf
- Buttercup the Pet Cougar
- Duber the Pet Monkey
- Explorer Dog
- Fang the Tame Coyote
- Fierce Cougar
- Freitag the Pet Macaque
- Gentle Pete the Pet Bear
- Honcho the Pet Grizzly Bear
- Intrepid Turkey Scout
- Janey the Pet Jaguar
- Kermond the Pet Monitor Lizard
- Lhota the Pet Lion
- Nili the Playful Hippo
- Old Doug the Orangutan
- Pambuu the Tame Warthog
- Pete-Pete the Tame Panda
- Peruvian Dog
- Randy the Pet Rhino
- Tengri Wolf
- Wagner the Pet White Tiger
- War Dog
Other tags[]
The following units are not heavy infantry, but do have the AbstractHandInfantry tag:
| Tags in Age of Empires III | |
|---|---|
 Infantry | |
 Heavy infantry | Hand infantry · Pikeman · Musket infantry |
 Light infantry | Foot archer · Rifle infantry · Hand skirmisher |
| Other | Counter skirmisher · Grenade trooper |
 Cavalry /  Shock infantry | |
 Heavy cavalry |  Hand cavalry · Ranged heavy cavalry · Lance cavalry |
 Light ranged cavalry | Gunpowder cavalry |
| Shock infantry |  Hand shock infantry ·  Ranged shock infantry |
| Other | Camel · Elephant |
| Siege units | |
 Siege unit ·  Artillery ·  Siege Elephant · Gatling Camel* · Fixed Gun* · Arrow Knight* | |
 Ship | |
Fishing boat · Warship ·  Recruiting ship | |
 Building | |
 Resource enclosure ·  Wall · Frontier fortification · Barracks | |
| Other | |
 Hero ·  Mercenary · Monk ·  Outlaw ·  Pet ·  Villager | |
| Mother nature | |
 Huntable ·  Treasure guardian | |
| Support tags | |
| Gunpowder unit · Archer · Healing unit · Native warrior · Elephant · Camel · Archaic infantry · Ranged infantry · Ranged cavalry · Consulate unit | |
| All tags with icons are related to the bonus and penalties counter system, except *hidden tags that aren't in the UI | |