Light Cannon

Light Cannon
Unit information
Introduced in	The WarChiefs
Type	Artillery
Civilization	Iroquois
Age	Industrial Age
Training
Trained at	Siege Workshop
Population	4
Wood	100
Coin	300
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resists	75% vs. Ranged
Speed	3
Line of Sight	36
XP train bounty	40
XP bounty	40
Siege damage
Attack	70
Multipliers	x3.0 vs. Building x3.0 vs. Ship x2.0 vs. Artillery x2.0 vs. Infantry
Range	32
Rate of Fire	6.0

“	Light artillery. Good against infantry and artillery.	”
—In-game description

The Light Cannon is an artillery in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Iroquois and can be trained at the Siege Workshop once the Industrial Age is reached. It combines the functions of a Falconet and a Culverin.

Overview

The most notable trait and largest disadvantage of the Light Cannon is that it is only available in the Industrial Age, unlike European artillery. This can be quite a restriction in a fast-paced battle.

It does excellent damage against artillery and buildings and is also good against ships. It can also do peripheral damage to nearby targets. The light cannon is strong against ships, infantry, and other artillery. Due to their effectiveness against a wide array of units complimented with a powerful range (most standard artillery have 26 or 28), they are devastating against enemy armies if left unchecked. If the Siege Discipline card is sent, the Iroquois can easily mass a large number of these without a major penalty to the population space.

The Light Cannon is a mixture of Falconet and Culverin. It nearly has the range and damage of the culverin, which makes it effective against other artillery units, and part of the power of the Falconet, which makes it effective against infantry and buildings.

Another advantage is that, unlike European artillery, they spend no time switching between Bombard and Limber mode. Both of the modes have equal speed, and if for any cause they have changed mode, they can change them instantly, allowing them to always remain both mobile and ready for combat.

The main disadvantages of the Light Cannon are its slower rate of fire, less damage, and smaller damage area than a Falconet (making it for example only 31% as effective against infantry as a Falconet, not factoring in the reduced damage area), as well as its fewer hitpoints than either a Culverin or a Falconet, while costing almost the same amount of resources to train.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Field Cannon	250 food 250 coin	Upgrades Light Cannons to Field Cannons (+25% hit points and attack)
	Legendary Field Cannon	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Light Cannons to Imperial Field Cannons (+50% hit points and attack); requires Field Cannon

Further statistics

As Light Cannons are unique the Iroquois, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry, artillery, ships, buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, Culverins, Arrow Knights
Improvements
Attack	Heated Shot (+1.5x multiplier vs. ships)
Speed	Siege Drill (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Creation speed	File:Inca Chaquis Messengers.png Incan Chasquis Messengers (-10%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

As Light Cannons are unique to the Iroquois, 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 Light Cannon

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Chinese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Engineering School Abus Gun, Grenadier, Falconet/Organ Gun, Culverin, Mortar, Horse Artillery, Petard, Ram, Mantlet, Light Cannon, Flamethrower, Hand Mortar, Siege Elephant, Flaming Arrow, and Morutaru train time -30%; Heavy Cannon, Rocket, Great Bombard, and Flying Crow train time -5%; Black Flag Army and Mongolian Army train time -15% 25 Europeans Card Description Age HC level TEAM Artillery Hitpoints Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% hit points 10 The TEAM Artillery Hitpoints card is available to Ottomans and Portuguese (at the Fortress Age). Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Iroquois Card Description Age HC level Siege Hitpoints Rams, Mantlets, and Light Cannons get +15% hit points 10 Siege Damage Rams, Mantlets, and Light Cannons get +15% attack 10 File:Iroquois Home City 2 (Siege Combat).png Siege Combat Rams, Mantlets, and Light Cannons get +15% hit points and attack 25 File:Iroquois Home City 2 (Siege Discipline).png Siege Discipline Rams, Mantlets, and Light Cannons use -1 population 40 2 Light Cannon Ships 2 Light Cannons 1 4 Light Cannon Ships 4 Light Cannons 25 Japanese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheaper Unit Upgrades Unit upgrades cost -20% 1 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

History

“

Most Iroquois campaigns ended up with siege warfare. This fact, combined with the Iroquois predilection for modern weapons (trade steel and gunpowder), meant that they learned to deal with military technology early in their history. The cannon was a natural step in this development. The Light Cannon represents an artillery piece, bought or stolen from European allies, but crewed by Iroquois warriors.

”

Gallery

An in game Light Cannon.