The Huaraca is an Inca unique unit available at the Kallanka and the Stronghold starting in the Fortress Age. It is armed with a sling and hurls incendiary stones from a long range. While effective against buildings, artillery, ships, Huaracas are extremely vulnerable to hand attacks due to their poor armor and long reloading time. When fielded in numbers, Huaracas can be deadly to infantry.
In the late stages of the game, combined with Kallanka overpopulation, Huaraca can replace Jungle Bowmen as the Incan Skirmisher unit, as they outrange all Skirmisher-type units, deal high siege damage per hit, and can take down enemy artillery relatively quickly. Since they possess little hand attack and negative multipliers against cavalry, they need be surrounded with Macemen at all times.
Upgrades[]
The Huaraca starts at the Elite level, giving them +25% hit points and attack, +12 Line of Sight and +7 ranged and siege attack range.
They also automatically get +0.75 siege attack multiplier against Walls in the Industrial Age*.
Upgrades Huaracas to Legendary (+50% hit points and attack, and +1 range); requires Champion Huaracas
Civilization differences[]
The Portuguese and Spanish can get Huaracas upon revolting to Peru through the "Andean Warriors" Home City Card which ships 6 Huaracas, or train them at the Stronghold when the "Machu Picchu" card is sent. These Huaracas are automatically upgraded to Champion.
Originally, Huaracas were tagged as artillery, had a ×0.75 multiplier against artillery, and 19 range. With update 3552, Huaracas are no longer tagged as artillery, have a ×1.0 multiplier against artillery, and 20 range.
Huaracas have 40 ranged damage, a ×0.5 multiplier against cavalry and shock infantry, ×0.25 against villager, no multipliers against infantry, and the Elite Huaracas upgrade gives +8 range.
With update 13.12327, Huaracas have 20 ranged damage and a ×2.0 multiplier against infantry.
With update 13.18214, Huaracas have 16 ranged damage, a ×2.0 multiplier against artillery, ×1.5 multiplier against infantry, and ×1.0 against villager, and 12 range.
With update 14.43676, Huaracas have a ×2.5 multiplier against artillery, ×1.2 against infantry, ×0.3 against cavalry and shock infantry, the Elite Huaracas upgrade gives +11 range, and the Champion and Legendary Huaracas upgrades give +1 range.
With update 15.30007, Huaracas have a ×2.0 multiplier against artillery and the Champion Huaracas upgrade gives +0.5 multiplier against artillery.
With update 15.59076, Huaracas' damage multiplier now applies to heavy infantry instead of all infantry, have 14 range and the Elite Huaracas upgrade gives +7 range.
History[]
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The standing army of the Inca was formed primarily by nobles, but the Sapa Inca could raise an army of able-bodied men from the general populace at will. Military discipline was strictly enforced when the troops were on the march and the army, although variously specialized, was extremely well trained. They wore cloth armor that breathed well, allowed for free movement, and dissipated the force of blows. Battles tended to open with a hail of projectile weaponry before the forces closed in melee combat. One such ranged weapon was the Huaraca, or sling, which was used to hurl stones with great speed and force over considerable distance. Slings were deadly in the field, their stones capable of shattering bones and causing severe internal bleeding upon impact; their ranged nature also made them an effective tool for attacking defenders while assailing fortifications
Champion Huaracas
Legendary Huaracas
Cree Tanning (+5%)
Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Tar Kilns (+5%)
Armatoloi (+5%)
Yoga (+5%)
Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack)
Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier vs. Frontier fortification)
Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Hualcana (+5%; Inca only)
Town Watch (+3)
Military Drummers (+10%)
Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%)
Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Apache Endurance (+5%)
Standing Army (-25%)
Quechuan Diet (-15%)
Immigrants (-10%)
Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Jagiellonian Legacy (delivers 8 Huaracas if The Warrior was chosen for the Inca to reach the Industrial Age)
Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Coffee Consumption
Andean Warriors
TEAM Scout Infantry
Ranged Infantry Attack
13 Huaracas
Ranged Infantry Hitpoints
7 Huaracas
11 Huaracas
Road Building
Couriers
TEAM Inca Bridges
Tupac Rebellion
Chachapoya Support
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
TEAM Sengoku
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
TEAM Mariachi
Fencing School
Peninsular Guerrillas
Liberation March
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
Definitive Edition[]
