Lakota War Chief

Lakota War Chief
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Hero Cavalry Heavy cavalry* Hand cavalry Sees stealth
Civilization(s)	Lakota
Training
Cost	200 Coin
Train time	20 seconds
Train limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	500
Resistance	10% Ranged
Speed	7.76
Line of Sight	18
Ability	Claims Treasures Builds Town Centers and Trading Posts Trains Native Scouts Stealth mode (with the "Heyoka" card)
Special ability	See Special abilities
Kill XP	100
Siege attack
Damage	15 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	6 Hand
Area of Effect	2
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Guardian 0.5x vs. Hero 0.25x vs. Villager

“	The leader of your Tribe. Possesses many powerful bonuses and abilities. Explores, fights, builds Town Centers and Trading Posts.	”
—In-game description

The Lakota War Chief (Sioux War Chief before the Definitive Edition) is a melee cavalry hero in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. He explores uncharted areas of the map and has some special abilities to help himself and his tribe. In standard random map games, the Lakota starts with a Lakota War Chief.

Overview

The Lakota War Chief increases the speed of friendly units in a radius of 24 around him by 10%; the "Blotáhunka" Home City Card will make his aura also increase attack by 10%, and in the Definitive Edition, the "Ogle Tanka Un" card also makes his aura increase siege attack by 10%. As all War Chiefs do, he can convert human Treasure guardians, detect stealth units, claim Treasures, and build Town Centers and Trading Posts.

The Lakota War Chief is the fastest hero unit in random map games.

Immortal

Like other explorer-type units, instead of dying, the Lakota War Chief will collapse when his hit points reaches 0 (zero). If this happens, he will be incapacitaded for the rest of that game, or until he can be rescued. A regular rescue can be done by having a friendly unit or building around him once he regenerates at least 100 hit points. Additionally, the player can return him to the Community Plaza with the War Chief Ceremony. This option exempts having to reach with a unit the spot where the chief has fallen, but it takes several villagers dancing for at least 10 seconds at the Plazza.

Special abilities

• Definitive Edition
• Original

• Recruit Guardian: Recruits a human treasure guardian (with the process taking 4 seconds to complete). 90 seconds cooldown; shared across the Swashbuckler Attack and Berserk Attack special abilities.
• Swashbuckler Attack (requires the "Counting Coup" Home City Card): A sweeping hand attack that damages all units in the area (deals 50 hand damage in a radius of 3 around with ×0.5 multiplier against villagers and ×0.1 multiplier against MercType2). 90 seconds cooldown; shared across the Recruit Guardian and Berserk Attack special abilities.
• Berserk Attack: Kills treasure guardians in one blow (deals 750 hand damage). 55 seconds cooldown; shared across the Recruit Guardian and Swashbuckler Attack special abilities.
• Health Regeneration (passive): Regenerates 0.25% hit points per second after 3.5 seconds idle.
• War Chief Support (passive): The Lakota War Chief increases the speed, attack (with the "Blotáhunka" Home City Card) and siege attack (with the "Ogle Tanka Un" Home City Card) of nearby friendly units by 10%.

• Nature Friendship: Converts a Treasure guardian to the Sioux War Chief's side with the process taking 4 seconds to complete. 90 seconds cooldown.
• Swashbuckler Attack (requires the "Counting Coup" Home City Card): The Sioux War Chief performs a sweeping hand attack that does 50 (12.5 against villagers, 5 against Spies and Ninja) hand damage to the target and other enemies in a radius of 3 around him. 90 seconds cooldown.

Upgrades

The Lakota War Chief is automatically upgraded in every Age up.

• +50% hit points and damage, and +20% ranged resistance
• +100% hit points and +150% damage
• +100% hit points and +200% damage
• +275% hit points and +300% damage

Further statistics

As the Lakota War Chief is unique to the Lakota, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Treasure guardians, light infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Weak vs.	Villagers, heavy infantry, light ranged cavalry, ranged shock infantry, MercType2
Improvements
Hit points	Sikh Gurus (+50%) Cavalry Cuirass (+10%) Comanche Horse Breeding (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Yoga (+5%) Pillage (+25% siege attack multiplier vs. buildings) Wind Horses (-10% Rate of Fire) Battle Anger (+2.0 multiplier vs. artillery) Horsemanship (+1.0 multiplier vs. Walls)
Resistance	Sudanese Quilted Armor (+10% hand resistance) Pancerni (+10% ranged resistance) Bonepipe Armor (+10% siege resistance)
Speed	Apache Endurance (+5%) Comanche Mustangs (+5%) Wind Horses (+0.5)
Other	Carib Ambush Party (can train Carib Ambushers) Loyal Nootka War Chief (can train Nootka War Chief) Tupi Animal Lore (can train Buttercup the Pet Cougars)

Home City Cards

As the Lakota War Chief is unique to the Lakota, 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 Lakota War Chief

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

French

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hand Cavalry Attack	Hand cavalry and hand shock infantry damage +15%

Germans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Cavalry Attack	Heavy cavalry, light ranged cavalry, and shock infantry damage +10%; Germans-only heavy cavalry, light ranged cavalry, and shock infantry damage +15% instead

• "TEAM Cavalry Attack" does not stack with the Italian "TEAM Cavalry Attack" card.

Indians

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

Italians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Cavalry Attack	Heavy cavalry, light ranged cavalry, and shock infantry damage +10%; Italians-only heavy cavalry, light ranged cavalry, and shock infantry damage +15% instead

• "TEAM Cavalry Attack" does not stack with the German "TEAM Cavalry Attack" card.

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Ogle Tanka Un	The Lakota War Chief hit points and damage +50%, and his aura now also improves your unit's siege attack damage by +10%
Counting Coup	The Lakota War Chief gets the Swashbuckler ability
Heyoka	The Lakota War Chief can use stealth mode and snare enemies
Blotáhunka	The Lakota War Chief aura also increases the damage of friendly units by 10%
Morning Star	Temporarily reveals all enemies and treasures; Axe Rider can now loot treasures for double the resources or XP; hand cavalry bonus damage against treasure guardian +2.0
Akichita	Lakota warrior hit points +20%, but reduces their bonus damage against villager: Tashunke Prowler -0.75; Cetan Bowman, Club Warrior, Wakina Rifle, Axe Rider, and Tokala Soldier -0.33; Bow Rider and Rifle Rider -0.25
Cavalry Damage	Cavalry damage +15%
Cavalry Combat	Cavalry hit points and damage +15%

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%

Russians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Kamchatka Expeditions	Cavalry and shock infantry hit points +10%, Line of Sight +4

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Fencing Instructor	Hero hit points and damage +20% (except Shaolin Masters' Roundhouse Kick attack and Sohei Archers' Sabotage attack)
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

French

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Hand Cavalry Attack	Heavy cavalry and Coyote Runners get +15% attack		10

Germans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Cavalry Attack	Heavy cavalry, light cavalry, and shock infantry get +15% attack		10

Indians

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

Russians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Cavalry Scouts	Cavalry and shock infantry get +10% hit points and +4 Line of Sight		1

Sioux

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Smoke Signals	The Sioux War Chief gets +50% hit points and attack, and can train Pet Coyotes		1
Counting Coup	The Sioux War Chief can use Swashbuckler Attack		10
Center of Power	The Sioux War Chief can use stealth mode		10
Command Skill	The Sioux War Chief aura also increases the attack of nearby friendly units by 10%		25
Cavalry Damage	Cavalry get +15% attack		10
Cavalry Hitpoints	Cavalry get +15% hit points		10
Cavalry Combat	Cavalry get +15% hit points and attack		25

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Explorer Combat	Heroes get +20% hit points and attack (except Shaolin Masters' Roundhouse Kick attack and Sohei Archers' Sabotage attack)		1
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		10

Random names

• Two Moons
• Good Thunder
• Finds Buffalo
• Stone-the-Wolf
• Spotted Horse
• Four Bears
• Magic Shield
• Big Bow
• Running Elk
• Steals Horses
• Open Sky
• Diving Hawk
• Wolf Heart
• Many Coups
• Runs-with-Horses
• Sleepy Eagle
• Keeps-the-Pipe
• Coughing Clown
• Plenty Beads
• Invisible Arrow
• Eagle Catchers
• Sun Dancer
• Younger Brother
• Touches-the-Earth
• Slow Walker
• Cloud Walker

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• The unit is named Sioux War Chief.
• The Sioux War Chief increases the speed of friendly units by 20%.
• Has Nature Friendship which converts all Treasure guardians, human and non-human.
• The "Smoke Signals" Home City Card allows the Sioux War Chief to train Fang the Tame Coyotes.

Definitive Edition

• The unit is renamed to Lakota War Chief.
• The Lakota War Chief is now classified as a heavy cavalry.
• The Lakota War Chief increases the speed of friendly units by 15%. With update 20322, the Lakota War Chief increases the speed of friendly units by 10%.
• Nature Friendship replaced by Recruit Guardian, which converts human Treasure guardians only.
• Receives the Berserk Attack ability, which originally had a cooldown of 45 seconds. With update 9476, the Berserk Attack ability has a cooldown of 55 seconds.
• All special abilities now goes on cooldown when one is used, which is as long as the activated one.
• The Lakota War Chief gets +20% ranged resistance upon reaching the Commerce Age.
• The "Smoke Signals" Home City Card renamed to "War Chief". It now makes the Lakota War Chief's aura increase friendly units' siege attack by 10%.

History

The WarChiefs

“

War chiefs, typically young men in their prime, were responsible for leading warriors into battle. Even though they led their tribe's war efforts, they had to answer to a council of tribal leaders who attended to the daily affairs of the tribe. One of the most renowned war chiefs was Sitting Bull (1831-1890), also known as Tatanka Yotanka. Born in the territory of present-day South Dakota, he was renowned as a Sioux medicine man and prophet. Sitting Bull led Native resistance against U.S. government attempts to take over tribal lands, which included his involvement in the Battle of the Little Bighorn with his lieutenants Crazy Horse and Gall. After spending several years in Canada with his followers, Sitting Bull returned to the U.S. under a government amnesty program.

”

Definitive Edition

“

War chiefs, typically young men in their prime, were responsible for leading warriors into battle. Even though they led their tribe's war efforts, they had to answer to a council of tribal leaders who attended to the daily affairs of the tribe. One of the most renowned war chiefs was Sitting Bull (1831-1890), also known as Tatanka Yotanka. Born in the territory of present-day South Dakota, he was renowned as a Lakota healer and prophet. Sitting Bull led Native resistance against U.S. government attempts to take over tribal lands, which included his involvement in the Battle of the Greasy Grass (also known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn) with his lieutenants Crazy Horse and Gall. After spending several years in Canada with his followers, Sitting Bull returned to the U.S. under a government amnesty program.

”

Trivia

• The Lakota War Chief is the only War Chief which is a cavalry unit.

Gallery

The in-game Sioux War Chief in The WarChiefs

A fallen Sioux War Chief

In-game Lakota War Chief in the Definitive Edition

Female Lakota War Chief (Wise Woman) portrait

In-game Chayton Black skin for the Lakota War Chief

In-game Ogle Tanka Un skin for the Lakota War Chief

In-game Female Lakota War Chief (Wise Woman)

Lakota War Chief image from the Compendium section

See also

• Aztec War Chief
• Haudenosaunee War Chief
• Inca War Chief