Jaguar Prowl Knight

This article is about the Aztec unit in Age of Empires III. For the native unit, see Aztec Jaguar Warrior. For the Aztec unique unit in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, see Jaguar Warrior.

Jaguar Prowl Knight
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Hand infantry
Civilization(s)	Aztecs
Age	Fortress Age
Training
Trained at	Nobles' Hut Fort American Citadel
Cost	90 Food 30 Coin 1 Population
Train time	37 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	215
Resistance	10% Hand
Speed	5.0
Line of Sight	12
Ability	Stealth mode Combat Promotion*
Train XP	12
Kill XP	12
Siege attack
Damage	36 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	16 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Heavy infantry 2.0x vs. Cavalry 1.6x vs. Shock infantry

“	Stealthy noble armed with an obsidian sword. Good against cavalry and heavy infantry.	”
—In-game description

The Jaguar Prowl Knight is a melee heavy infantry unit in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Aztecs and can be trained at the Nobles' Hut. It is the second most powerful melee unit of the Aztecs after the Skull Knight.

Overview

The Jaguar Prowl Knight is a very powerful and fast infantry unit of the Aztec civilization with a lot of hit points and damage and is very effective against heavy infantry and heavy cavalry units. They also have the stealth ability, which makes them slower (half speed) but completely invisible to most enemies.

These units are extremely powerful. Their biggest weaknesses are Skirmishers and artillery, which Coyote Runners should take care of. They have multipliers against most melee units, making them extremely good as meat shields against cavalry, as well as melee infantry such as Samurai. Grenadiers are very vulnerable in melee (due to heavy infantry classification) but a fair counter at range. Skirmisher units and artillery are extremely dangerous if they attack at range, but will fall if they get too close.

Jaguar Prowl Knights make an excellent counter to Heavy Infantry focused armies, and a decent counter to Cavalry focused armies. Melee infantry is very dangerous to Aztec armies, due to their multipliers against both Eagle Runner Knights and Coyote Runners, making Jaguar Prowl Knights an important unit vs civilizations that focus on melee units, such as Spanish Rodeleros. When exclusively against melee cavalry of all types, Eagle Runners, Puma Spearmen, or Skull Knights are superior in damage, but Jaguar Prowl Knights have very high hit points and take only a single population space, making them very good at blocking units. Utilizing stealth can also enable them to catch out Ranged Cavalry and artillery, which often have low hitpoints and fall very fast to Jaguar Prowl Knights.

It can be thought of as a Halberdier/Skirmisher hybrid.

The Jaguar Prowl Knight is one of the Aztec civilization's knight units; as such, it is trained at the Nobles' Hut along with the Arrow Knight and the Eagle Runner Knight.

Promotion

Jaguar Prowl Knights benefit from the Combat Promotion. This ability increases their hit points and damage after defeating an enemy military unit, up to a maximum of three enemy units. These stats can be higher with Home City Cards or upgrades that increase their hit points and damage.

Promotion	Bronze Rank	Silver Rank	Gold Rank
Combat Promotion	+10% hit points and damage	+20% hit points and damage	+30% hit points and damage

Strategies

• Units and structures that can see invisible units are hard counters for Jaguar Prowl Knights, as they allow enemy units to attack them, especially artillery and ranged infantry. Also, a lot of the strategies are based on stealth.
  • To reduce this impact, place a few Jaguar Prowl Knights or Coyote Runners on stealth (the latter with the Silent Strike Card sent) at different points far from the army, to know where they are in the enemy formations.
  • Use some Coyote Runners to kill one of them, as they are fast enough to reach them and have good damage.
  • For buildings, use Arrow Knights and/or Puma Spearmen; both have excellent siege damage options.
• A few Jaguar Prowl Knights can be used as sentinels near the enemy's colony to know what they are doing.
  • Try to keep a short distance between each one's LOS to create a view chain.
  • Remember that Explorers, War Chiefs, Spies and Ninjas can reveal units stealth units when they are near them. The same occurs with Town Centers, Outposts, Forts, War Huts, and other such defensive structures.
  • Use the deny effect to know how much LOS the enemy has, by simply seeing where the unit starts to enter stealth.
• The stealth Jaguar army should march in front.
  • Move a few of them in the flanks of the big army, to ambush unprotected enemy artillery or ranged units.
    • Beware of units that are protecting, especially those ones that can reveal stealth.
• Jaguar Prowl Knights do not lose their unit collision on stealth, and in big formations, enemy players can note their presence more easily. Also, they can receive damage from area attacks.
• In an Arrow Knight or Otontin Slinger composition, it is recommended to maintain the Jaguar Prowl Knight's stealth and place them around the ranged units, waiting for enemy melee infantry or melee cavalry attack.
  • With Eagle Runner Knights, Skull Knights, or Coyote Runners, the strategy can be used to attract and ambush enemy artillery or ranged infantry when they are chasing the Eagle Runner Knight, Skull Knight or Coyote Runner Army when it retreats.
    • Works better with Eagle Runner Knights as they allow the player to hit & run, becoming more attractive to chase by enemy infantry or cavalry.
• Despite having multipliers against cavalry and Shock Infantry, it is recommended to use Eagle Runner Knight or Puma Spearman to deal with those, especially the latter, which has a better speed and damage against all cavalry and Shock Infantry units, and 10% resistance against range damage, letting Jaguar Prowl Knights deal with heavy infantry with more hit points.
• When protecting, activate "In cover" formation on Jaguar Prowl Knights to receive half damage from both ranged and artillery attacks.
  • Use Otontin Slingers and Eagle Runner Knights to support them against heavy infantry and melee cavalry, because in this formation mode they lose half damage.
• Enemy units with only the infantry tag, and not also the heavy infantry tag, such as Urumis, are difficult to kill, as they do not receive bonus damage from Jaguar Prowl Knight's attacks.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Champion Jaguar Prowl Knights	400 wood 200 coin	Upgrades Jaguar Prowl Knights to Champion (+25% hit points and damage)
Imperial Age	Legendary Jaguar Prowl Knights	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Jaguar Prowl Knights to Legendary (+50% hit points and damage); requires Champion Jaguar Prowl Knights

Further statistics

As Jaguar Prowl Knights are unique to the Aztecs, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Heavy infantry, cavalry, shock infantry, buildings
Weak vs.	Light infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack damage)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Cost	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (-10%) Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Train time	Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Immigrants (-10%)
Other	Aztec Scouting Party (delivers 4 Jaguar Prowl Knights) Aztec Raiding Party (delivers 8 Jaguar Prowl Knights) Aztec War Party (delivers 12 Jaguar Prowl Knights) Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

As Jaguar Prowl Knights are unique to the Aztecs, 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 Jaguar Prowl Knight

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)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age
6 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Delivers 6 Jaguar Prowl Knights
8 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Delivers 8 Jaguar Prowl Knights
14 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Delivers 14 Jaguar Prowl Knights
12 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Delivers 12 Jaguar Prowl Knights
9 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Delivers 9 Jaguar Prowl Knights
Scorched Earth	Arrow Knight, Eagle Runner Knight, and Jaguar Prowl Knight siege attack damage +50%
Knight Hitpoints	Arrow Knight, Eagle Runner Knight, Jaguar Prowl Knight, and Skull Knight hit points +15%
Knight Attack	Arrow Knight, Eagle Runner Knight, Jaguar Prowl Knight, and Skull Knight damage +15%
Knight Combat	Arrow Knight, Eagle Runner Knight, Jaguar Prowl Knight, and Skull Knight hit points and damage +15%
Chichimeca Rebellion	Transforms all Puma Spearmen into Jaguar Prowl Knights, Coyote Runners into Eagle Runner Knights, and Otontin Slingers into Arrow Knights; villagers become Warriors upon death; costs 1,000 food, 1,000 wood, 1,000 coin
Fencing School	Infantry (except Warrior Priest and Skull Knight) and shock infantry train time -40%
Ritual Gladiators	Delivers 1 Jaguar Prowl Knight for each 2 Jaguar Prowl Knights lost so far (up to 12)
Great Temple of Quetzalcoatl Support	Delivers 6 Jaguar Prowl Knights; Jaguar Prowl Knight hit points and damage +20%; costs 1,000 coin
Religious Unity	Temple Support, Native Ally, Renegade, and Buccaneer shipment cost -50%, infinite Native Ally shipment cost -25% instead

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

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%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry damage +15%
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%

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age	HC level
5 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 5 Jaguar Prowl Knights		1
8 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 8 Jaguar Prowl Knights		1
6 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 6 Jaguar Prowl Knights		10
11 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 11 Jaguar Prowl Knights		25
9 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 9 Jaguar Prowl Knights		40
9 Jaguar Prowl Knights	Ships 9 Jaguar Prowl Knights		10
Scorched Earth	Arrow Knights, Eagle Runner Knights, and Jaguar Prowl Knights get +50% siege attack		10
Knight Hitpoints	Arrow Knights, Eagle Runner Knights, Jaguar Prowl Knights, and Skull Knights get +15% hit points		10
Knight Attack	Arrow Knights, Eagle Runner Knights, Jaguar Prowl Knights, and Skull Knights get +15% attack		10
Knight Combat	Arrow Knights, Eagle Runner Knights, Jaguar Prowl Knights, and Skull Knights get +15% hit points and damage		25
Fencing School	Infantry train time -40%		10
Great Temple of Quetzalcoatl Support	Ships 18 Jaguar Prowl Knights; Jaguar Prowl Knights get +25% hit points and damage; costs 2,000 coin		25
Religious Unity	Zapotec and Maya Allies, Renegade Spanish, Recruit Buccaneers, and (Great) Temple Support shipments cost -25% to -50%		40

• "Religious Unity" reduces "Great Temple of Quetzalcoatl Support" cost by 50%.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points		10

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		25

Iroquois

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 Line of Sight		10

Japanese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Cheaper Unit Upgrades	Unit upgrades cost -20%		1

Russians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Dueling School	Infantry (except Skull Knights), Old Han Army, and Territorial Army train time -25%; Black Flag Army, Standard Army, Ming Army, and Imperial Army train time -12%		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% attack		10
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Jaguar Prowl Knights have 230 hit points and 18 hand damage.
• Jaguar Prowl Knights have a ×2.0 multiplier against shock infantry.
• Jaguar Prowl Knights cost 120 food, 30 coin and have 4.50 speed.

Definitive Edition

• Jaguar Prowl Knights now have 240 hit points and 20 hand damage.
• With update 9476, Jaguar Prowl Knights now have a ×1.6 multiplier against shock infantry.

The African Royals

• With update 50830, Jaguar Prowl Knights cost 90 food, 30 coin, have 205 hit points, 4.75 speed, and 16 hand damage.
• Although it is not listed in the patch notes, with update 50830, the Jaguar Prowl Knight portrait has been updated.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.27885, Jaguar Prowl Knights have 215 hit points.
• With update 14.43676, Jaguar Prowl Knights have 5.0 speed and benefit from Combat Promotion. The unit's in-game model was updated, and the Legendary Jaguar Prowl Knights upgrade received a new model.
• With update 15.30007, Combat promotion rewards reduced to 10/20/30% (from 15/25/45%).

History

“

Aztec warriors who had captured at least four enemy soldiers became eligible for the ranks of the eagle runner knights or the jaguar prowl knights. Presumably this emphasis on capturing enemies was to collect a pool of captives for sacrifice, but the Aztecs were well-known for dealing death in battle, killing with single strokes of their obsidian swords or hurling atlatl-driven flights of barbed spears. Warriors who caused confusion or disorder in the ranks were beaten on the spot and sometimes killed. The dress of jaguar prowl knights incorporated bright colors and spots to evoke the imagery of a jaguar. The jaguar was a symbol of the night, a prowler and a predator, an appropriate model for an elite warrior. Jaguar prowl knights are usually depicted carrying shields and obsidian swords.

”

Trivia

• The Jaguar Prowl Knight has the same siege damage (36) as the Arrow Knight.
• The Jaguar Prowl Knight uses an obsidian sword known by the Aztecs as Macahuitl. The same weapon is also used by the Aztec War Chief.
• The Jaguar Prowl Knight has some resemblance to the Aztec Jaguar Warrior of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, as both not only are sturdy heavy infantry, but also are strong at facing other melee infantry as well being able to do good damage against cavalry, have decent speed, but are also vulnerable to ranged units and siege weapons.

Gallery

An in-game Jaguar Prowl Knight

An in-game Champion/Legendary Jaguar Prowl Knight

The Jaguar Prow Knight from the in-game history section

Jaguar Prowl Knight model

Champion/Legendary Jaguar Prowl Knight model

Jaguar Prowl Knight concept art

In-game Jaguar Prowl Knight in the Definitive Edition

In-game Champion Jaguar Prowl Knight in the Definitive Edition

In-game Legendary Jaguar Prowl Knight in the Definitive Edition since update 14.43676

Jaguar Prowl Knight image from the Compendium section