Insurgente

Insurgente
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Hand infantry Gunpowder infantry* Musket infantry*
Civilization(s)	Mexicans
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Barracks Fort Steamer American Citadel
Cost	70 Food 1 Population
Train time	35 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	90
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.5
Line of Sight	12
XP train bounty	7
XP kill bounty	7
Ranged attack
Damage	15 Ranged
Range	5-10
Rate of Fire	3.0
Requires	"Reservistas" card
Siege attack
Damage	20 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.5x vs. Cavalry 2.5x vs. Shock infantry

“	An insurgent peasant armed with whatever they could find. Good against cavalry and buildings.	”
—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.

Overview

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 higher statistics (mainly hit points, attack, and resistance). 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

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Veteran Insurgentes	200 wood 200 coin	Upgrades Insurgentes to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)

Yucateco Insurgente

Yucateco Insurgente
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Hand infantry Gunpowder infantry* Musket infantry*
Civilization(s)	Yucatán Maya
Age	Revolution
Training
Trained at	Barracks War Hut (Maya) Fort Steamer (Yucatán) Tlaloc Canoe (Maya) American Citadel
Cost	70 Food 1 Population
Train time	35 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	108 (base 90)
Resistance	20% Hand
Speed	5.5
Line of Sight	12
Ability	Lasso Attack
XP train bounty	7
XP kill bounty	7
Ranged attack
Damage	19 (base 15) Ranged
Range	5-10
Rate of Fire	3.0
Requires	"Reservistas" card
Siege attack
Damage	15 (base 12) Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	13 (base 10) Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Cavalry 2.2x vs. Shock infantry

Revolting to Yucatán turns Insurgentes into Yucateco Insurgentes which are Veteran Insurgentes with 10% more attack and the Lasso Attack charged ability.

The player will keep Yucateco Insurgentes when they revolted to Maya.

Special abilities

• 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.

Upgrades

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.

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Imperial Yucateco Insurgentes	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Yucateco Insurgentes to Imperial (+50% hit points and damage); requires the "Chan Santa Cruz" Home City Card

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Cavalry, shock infantry, buildings
Weak vs.	Light infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	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%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Paper Cartridge (+15%) Second Guarantee (+15%; Mexicans only, requires "Reservistas" Home City Card) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Socket Bayonet (+20% hand damage) Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Train time	Standing Army (-25%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Immigrants (-10%)
Cost	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost) Visit of the Seven Houses (ships one Insurgente for every House built)
Penalties	Corselet (-15% speed; Spanish only) Second Guarantee (+30% train time; Mexicans only, only after sending "Reservistas" Home City Card)

Home City Cards

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

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)

All

Card	Description	Age
33 Insurgentes	Ships 33 Insurgentes
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry get +5% speed and -35% train time

• "33 Insurgentes" is available to the Mexicans, and also Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.
• "Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.

British

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

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Ships 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villagers, healing units, Envoys, and Disciples get +5% speed

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

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +10% hit points; Dutch-only infantry get +15% hit points instead

Haudenosaunee

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

Inca

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Inca Bridges	Ships 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villagers, healing units, and Envoys get +5% speed

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

Indians

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

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center owned by the player; all units get +2% hit points

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
10 Insurgentes	Ships 10 Insurgentes
Insurgente Combat	Insurgentes get +15% hit points and damage
Machetes	Insurgentes get +15% attack and +5% speed
Reservistas	Insurgentes get a ranged attack and -20% train time, and now tagged as gunpowder infantry and musket infantry
Plan of Ayutla	[Plan] Turns all Insurgentes into Revolutionaries; Revolutionaries can be trained at Town Centers in batches of 10; Revolutionaries, Filibusters, and Californios cost -10%; costs 500 food, 500 wood
Plan of Tuxtepec	Turns all Salteadores into Soldados; musket infantry get +1 Line of Sight and range; costs 500 food, 500 wood
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed
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 Nicolás	Ships 500 XP; units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
Bustamante	The General can build Field Hospitals for free; musket infantry get +10% hit points; Field Hospitals can train Soldados
Zacatecas Rebellion	Ships 3 Insurgentes for every Home City shipment before this one
National Servant	All units get +10% hit points; Padre healing speed increased by 200%
Central American Infantry	Upgrades Insurgentes, Soldados, and Salteadores to Veteran (if not already); costs 500 wood, 500 coin
Bastimento	Villager train time -20%; infantry train time -25%; Revolutionary train time -50% instead
Plan of Mérida	[Plan] Turns all Settlers into 2 Insurgentes; Settler spawn time -5%
16 Yucateco Insurgentes	Ships 16 Yucateco Insurgentes
Jungle Warfare	Yucateco Insurgentes, Cruzob Avengers, and Maya Holcan Javelineers poison the enemy when attacking
Mayan Supporters	Ships 6 Maya Holcan Javelineers and 6 Yucateco Insurgentes; Yucateco Insurgentes get +10% hit points
Chan Santa Cruz	Upgrades Yucateco Insurgentes to Guard (if not already); Yucateco Insurgentes, Cruzob Infantry, and Cruzob Avengers can be upgraded to Imperial; costs 2,000 food, 2,000 coin
Pok Ta Pok	Infantry get +10% speed and -10% train time

• "Reservistas" is also available upon revolting to Yucatán.
• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Bustamante" is available upon selecting the San Luis Potosí Federal State.
• "Zacatecas Rebellion" is available upon selecting the Zacatecas Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Central American Infantry" is available upon revolting to Central America.
• "Bastimento" is available upon revolting into Rio Grande.
• "Plan of Merida", "16 Yucateco Insurgentes", and "Mayan Supporters" are available upon revolting to Yucatán.
• "Chan Santa Cruz" and "Pok Ta Pok" are available upon revolting to the Maya.
• "Jungle Warfare" is available to Yucatán and to the Maya.

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints	Gunpowder infantry get +15% hit points

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hidalgos	Pikemen, Crossbowmen, Aenna, Cetan Bow, Longbowman, Otontin Slinger, Yumi Archer, and Pavisier train time -40%; Old Han Army train time -30%; Jungle Bowman, Plumed Spearman, Fulani Archer, Desert Archer, Puma Spearman, Insurgente, Standard Army, and Ming Army train time -15%
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% attack
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Ships 1 Inquisitor; all units get +10 Line of Sight

Swedes

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

Changelog

Definitive Edition

• Originally, Insurgentes had 13 siege damage. With update 56860, Insurgentes have 12 siege damage.
• Insurgentes cost 65 food, have 12 siege damage and 1.5 siege Rate of Fire.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• 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

“

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.

”

Trivia

• "Insurgente" (Spanish for "insurgent") was the name of the Mexican Army during the Mexican War of Independence, they fought against the Army of the New Spain, which remain loyal to the Spanish Crown at the beginning of the rebellion. Eventually, the Insurgentes and the Army of New Spain joined forces in 1821 and formed the Army of the Three Guarantees.
• 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