An insurgent peasant armed with whatever they could find. Good against cavalry and buildings.
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—In-game description
The Insurgente is a melee infantry in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the Mexicans. It is a fast-moving but frail melee infantry armed with whatever tool they have that can be trained in groups of 10.
The Insurgente replaces the Pikeman and is unique to the Mexicans. It is available starting in the Commerce Age, and like the Pikeman, is effective against cavalry, shock infantry and buildings but weak against most other units. Insurgentes have lower hit points than Pikeman but are faster and cheaper.
Due to their low cost, in addition to being trained in groups of 10 (unlike most units), Insurgentes are a good option for early raids to harass enemy players and siege buildings. As Insurgentes have a low base attack, they can rely on higher numbers to deal with infantry or cavalry units, but are vulnerable against light infantry and artillery.
Sending the "Reservistas" Home City Card unlocks a short ranged attack for Insurgentes, with low damage and lacking ranged multipliers, allowing them to perform the role of a weaker Musketeer. They are, however, outperformed by Soldados due to having high stats and the fact that Insurgentes are capped at Veteran level, whereas Soldados are capped at Imperial. In contrast, Insurgentes can be trained faster than Soldados, particularly if the player sends the "Liberation March" and "Reservistas" Home City Cards, and researches Standing Army, decreasing their training time and allowing them to be massed easily.
Upgrades Insurgentes to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)
Yucateco Insurgente[]
Revolting to Yucatán turns Insurgentes into Yucateco Insurgentes which are Veteran Insurgentes with 10% more damage and the Lasso Attack charged ability.
The player will keep Yucateco Insurgentes when they revolted to Maya.
The Maya "Chan Santa Cruz" Home City Card upgrades Yucateco Insurgentes to Guard, giving them +30% hit points and damage, and allows them to be upgraded to Imperial.
Transforms all Insurgentes into Revolutionaries; enables Revolutionary to be trained at Town Centers in batches of 10; Revolutionary, Filibuster, and Californio cost -10%; costs 500 food, 500 wood
Plan of Tuxtepec
Transforms all Salteadores into Soldados; musket infantry Line of Sight, ranged and mortar attack range +1; costs 500 food, 500 wood
TEAM Mariachi
For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Seven Laws
All Mexican unique units and buildings' train/build bounty +50% as long as at least one of each had been trained at any point in the game
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
Bustamante
Field Hospital cost free, but does not grant build and kill bounty; enables the General to build Field Hospitals; enables Soldado to be trained at Field Hospitals; musket infantry hit points +10%
Zacatecas Rebellion
Delivers 3 Insurgentes for each shipment sent so far this game, including this one
National Servant
Unit (except herded animals) hit points +10%; Padre heal work rate +200%
Villager train time -20%; infantry train time -25%, Revolutionary train time -50% instead
Plan of Mérida
Transforms all Settlers into 2 Insurgentes; Settler train time -5%
16 Yucateco Insurgentes
Delivers 16 Yucateco Insurgentes
Jungle Warfare
Yucateco Insurgentes, Cruzob Avengers, and Maya Holcan Javelineers poison the enemy when attacking; the poison does 1 Siege damage per second and lasts for 8 seconds
Mayan Supporters
Delivers 6 Maya Holcan Javelineers and 6 Yucateco Insurgentes; Yucateco Insurgente hit points +10%
Chan Santa Cruz
Grants Guard Insurgentes; enables Imperial upgrades for Yucateco Insurgentes, Cruzob Infantry, and Cruzob Avengers; costs 2,000 food, 2,000 coin
With update 14.43676, Insurgentes cost 70 food, have 20 siege damage, and 3.0 siege Rate of Fire.
With update 15.30007, Insurgentes get the "Gunpowder Infantry" tag when the "Reservistas" Home City Card is sent.
History[]
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When the Cry of Dolores incited an insurrection in 1810, touching off the movement towards Mexican independence, many supporters were peasants and indigenous natives armed with little more than farm tools or other rudimentary weapons. These Insurgentes were no match for a disciplined military force, but their sheer numbers could be leveraged into unexpected victories.
The Insurgente is based on the irregular troops led by Miguel Hidalgo in the first stage of the Independence. These units lacked organization and were poorly armed with sticks, arrows and tools; few of them had guns, which had been taken from Spanish stocks.
Despite their role, replacing the Pikeman for the Mexicans, the Insurgente uses the upgrade icons of the Musketeer-type and Skirmisher-type units (a medal with two crossed pistols) instead of using the upgrade icons used by the Pikeman (and by the Halberdier): a medal with a halberd crossed with a pike.
The Insurgente is the only unit that uses one of six different weapons in melee combat: a wooden club (reuses the Axe Rider gunstock club), hammer, plow, knife, pickaxe, or a sword. Additionally, sending the "Reservistas" Home City Card allows it to use a musket in ranged combat, and choosing Yucatán as an option for revolting allows Insurgentes to use a lasso (as a charged ability).
The Yucateco Insurgente portrait is a modified portrait of the Bolas Warrior.
Gallery[]
Insurgente image from the Compendium section
In-game Insurgente variants
In-game Veteran Insurgente variants
In-game Veteran Insurgentes after sending the "Reservistas" Home City Card
Veteran Insurgentes
Lasso Attack (automatically activated when attacking with a cooldown of 30 seconds): The Yucateco Insurgente lassoes the enemy, dealing 19 ranged damage (with a 2.0x bonus damage against heavy cavalry, 1.6x against hand shock infantry, 1.25x against light ranged cavalry and ranged shock infantry, 0.67x against infantry) and snaring enemies in an Area of Effect of 2 from a range of 12.
Imperial Yucateco Insurgentes
Corselet (+25%; Spanish only)
Maya Cotton Armor (+20%)
Second Guarantee (+15%; Mexicans only, requires "Reservistas" Home City Card)
Flint Lock (+10%)
Infantry Breastplate (+10%)
Cree Tanning (+5%)
Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Tar Kilns (+5%)
Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%)
Paper Cartridge (+15%)
Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%)
Master Lessons (+10%)
Smokeless Powder (+10%)
Yoga (+5%)
Socket Bayonet (+20% hand damage)
Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack)
Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Military Drummers (+10%)
Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%)
Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Apache Endurance (+5%)
Town Watch (+3)
Standing Army (-25%)
Quechuan Diet (-15%)
Immigrants (-10%)
Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
Visit of the Seven Houses (delivers one Insurgente for every House built)
33 Insurgentes
Liberation March
TEAM Grenadier Guards
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Scout Infantry
TEAM Inca Bridges
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
TEAM Sengoku
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
10 Insurgentes
Insurgente Combat
Machetes
Reservistas
Plan of Ayutla
Plan of Tuxtepec
TEAM Mariachi
Seven Laws
Colegio de San Nicolas
Bustamante
Zacatecas Rebellion
National Servant
Central American Infantry
Bastimento
Plan of Mérida
16 Yucateco Insurgentes
Jungle Warfare
Mayan Supporters
Chan Santa Cruz
Pok Ta Pok
TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Hidalgos
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack
Archaic Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
TEAM House of Bernadotte
