Humbaraci

Humbaraci
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Siege trooper Ranged infantry Grenade trooper
Civilization(s)	Ottomans
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Artillery Foundry Fort Galleon American Citadel
Cost	110 Food 80 Coin 2 Population
Train time	38 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	225
Resistance	30% Ranged 20% Siege
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	17
Train XP	19
Kill XP	19
Ranged attack
Damage	18 Siege
Area of Effect	2
Range	4-14
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	2.0× vs. Artillery 0.5× vs. Villager 0.4× vs. Cavalry 0.4× vs. Shock infantry
Mortar attack
Damage	18 Siege
Area of Effect	2
Range	4-16
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	Same as ranged attack
Requires	"Grenade Launchers" card
Siege attack
Damage	50 Siege
Range	14
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	28 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	1.75× vs. Artillery 0.5× vs. Villager 0.25× vs. Cavalry 0.15× vs. Shock infantry

“	Heavy grenade-throwing infantryman that is effective against buildings and artillery, but more vulnerable to infantry and cavalry.	”
—In-game description

The Humbaraci is a ranged heavy infantry siege unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the Ottomans.

The unit was added in as part of update 13.27885, prior to which the Ottomans trained Grenadiers instead.

Overview

The Humbaraci is a heavy infantry unit similar to the Grenadier, working as a support and siege unit rather than fighting against other units.

Humbaracis have an increased coin cost and reduced food cost, more hit points, slightly higher speed, melee and ranged attack, range, and lesser Area of Effect, but deal more damage against buildings, resists ranged and siege attacks, and unlike Grenadiers, they are especially effective countering artillery units in a similar way to Culverins, but costing less population and resources.

While they throw grenades, Ottoman players who send the "Grenade Launchers" card will slightly increase the Humbaraci's Line of Sight and Rate of Fire, as they no longer ignite and throw grenades, rather firing them from their rifles much like Giant Grenadiers.

However, Humbaracis are particularly weak against units such as villagers, cavalry, and shock infantry. While they can handle infantry due to their ranged attack (that causes siege damage), Humbaracis can be taken down easily if they are reached by melee heavy infantry such as Rodeleros or Halberdiers. Protecting Humbaracis with ranged infantry like Janissaries or Abus Gunners allows the player to deal with most units, particularly cavalry and infantry.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Veteran Humbaracis	200 wood 200 coin	Upgrades Humbaracis to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)
	Ulufelis	750 wood 750 coin	Upgrades Humbaracis to Ulufelis (+40% hit points and damage, and -5 coin cost); requires Veteran Humbaracis
Imperial Age	Imperial Ulufelis	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Ulifelis to Imperial (+50% hit points and damage); requires Ulufelis

Further statistics

As Humbaracis are unique to the Ottomans, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Ranged infantry, artillery, buildings
Weak vs.	Hand infantry, cavalry, shock infantry
Improvements
Hit points	Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Incendiary Grenades (+15% siege attack multiplier vs. buildings and +1 ranged attack Area of Effect) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand damage) Armatoloi (+5%) Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier vs. Frontier fortification)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Line of sight	Town Watch (+3)
Cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin)
Train time	Standing Army (-25%) Immigrants (-10%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

As Humbaracis are unique to the Ottomans, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Humbaraci

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
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry damage +10%; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry damage +15% instead

• "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.

British

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Grenadier Guards	Musket infantry and grenade trooper hit points +15%

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%

• "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead
TEAM Coehorn Mortars	Mortar, Hand Mortar, Morutaru, and Sebastopol Mortar damage +20%; grenade trooper mortar attack damage +20%

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry speed +5%

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8

Inca

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%

• "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.

Indians

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

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades 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
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
5 Humbaracis	Delivers 5 Humbaracis
7 Humbaracis	Delivers 7 Humbaracis
6 Humbaracis	Delivers 6 Humbaracis
Ottoman Artillery Division	Delivers 6 Humbaracis and 1 Great Bombard
Cebeci	Abus Gunner and grenade trooper hit points +20%
Grenade Launchers	Humbaraci Line of Sight +2, replaces ranged attack with a mortar attack
Topçular	Artillery, artillery trooper, and grenade trooper hit points and damage +15%
Kuleli School	Janissary, Azap, Nizam Fusilier, Abus Gunner, grenade trooper, and Bashibozuk hit points and damage +15%
Acemi Oglan School	Janissary, Azap, and Humbaraci cost -20%; Nizam Fusilier cost -10%
Matrakci School	Infantry and shock infantry train time -30%; Janissary, Azap, Nizam Fusilier, Abus Gunner, and Humbaraci train time -40% instead
Hungarian Grenadiers	Each Outpost/Blockhouse spawns 1 Hungarian Grenadier; fully replaces Grenadiers and Humbaracis with Hungarian Grenadiers at Barracks, Artillery Foundries, Forts, Galleons, and on the map; enables them to be trained at Outposts/Blockhouses, +1 Outpost Wagon; Outpost/Blockhouse build limit +1

• "Kuleli School" is also available upon revolting to Egypt.
• "Hungarian Grenadiers" is available upon revolting to Hungary.

Spanish

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

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
TEAM House of Bernadotte	Heavy infantry hit points +15%

Changelog

Knights of the Mediterranean

• Originally, Humbaracis had 30 hand damage, 53 siege damage, a ×2.0 hand and ×2.5 ranged multiplier against artillery. With hotfix 13.29985, they have 26 hand damage, 48 siege damage, and a ×1.75 hand and ×2.25 ranged multiplier against artillery.
• Originally, Humbaracis give 18 XP when trained or killed. With update 13.58326, Humbaracis have 28 hand damage, 50 siege damage, and give 19 XP when trained or killed.
• Originally, Humbaracis had 15 Line of Sight and a ×0.5 ranged multiplier against cavalry and ×0.3 against shock infantry. With update 14.43676, Humbaracis have 17 Line of Sight, a ×2.0 ranged multiplier against artillery, and ×0.4 against cavalry and shock infantry.
• Originally, Humbaracis cost 110 food, 75 coin. With update 15.30007, Humbaracis cost 110 food, 80 coin.

Trivia

• Prior to being introduced as a unique unit, Humbaraci was the name for the Ottoman Grenadier's Royal Guard upgrade in the Definitive Edition.

History

“

The Humbaraci corps was one of the divisions of the Ottoman Army and is commonly considered to be the earliest specialized Grenadier corps in the early modern period. The Ottomans already started to use grenades in the late 15th and early 16th century, preceding this development in European armies. The name "humbaraci" is based on a Persian loanword that describes a metal bowl for storing valuables. This was likened to the metallic gunpowder-filled grenade and therefore called "humbara". The Ottoman army intended to emulate the power of the cumbersome and slow-moving artillery with more mobile foot soldiers by equipping and training small detachments of infantry banners with grenades. The Humbaraci corps also had extensive knowledge of casting and operating artillery pieces such as mortars. This expertise made them valuable in both infantry and artillery troops.

”

Gallery

Humbarci image from the Compendium section

In-game Humbaraci

In-game Veteran Humbaraci

In-game (Imperial) Ulufelis

In-game Humbaraci after sending the "Grenade Launchers" Home City Card