Line Infantry

Line Infantry
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Heavy infantry Ranged infantry Gunpowder infantry Musket infantry Native warrior
Age	Fortress Age
Training
Trained at	Trading Post or Tambo on a House of Habsburg palace Native Embassy
Cost	60 Food 55 Coin
Train time	35 seconds
Train limit	15 per House of Habsburg palace
Statistics
Hit points	140
Resistance	10% Ranged
Speed	4.25
Line of Sight	19
Ability	Combat Promotion
XP train bounty	12
XP kill bounty	12
Ranged attack
Damage	21 Ranged
Range	13
Rate of Fire	2.7
Siege attack
Damage	17 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	11 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.0
Bonus damage	3.0x Cavalry 2.25x Shock infantry

“	Tactical Austrian Musketeer that gains different benefits in each stance as well as from promotions.	”
—In-game description

The Line Infantry is a gunpowder infantry native warrior in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that can be trained at a Trading Post built on a House of Habsburg palace.

Overview

The Line Infantry is a ranged heavy infantry similar to the Musketeer, being specially effective against cavalry in melee combat due to a damage multiplier, but vulnerable to artillery and light infantry. Compared with the Musketeer, the Line Infantry is available in the Fortress Age, has less hit points and damage, has ranged resistance, an increased coin cost and reduced food cost, but a faster ranged Rate of Fire, more speed and Line of Sight.

Promotion

The Line Infantry benefits from the Combat Promotion. This ability increases its hit points and damage when defeating military enemy units, up to a maximum of three units. These values can be higher with Home City Cards or upgrades that increase Musketeer-type unit hit points and damage, like Flint Lock and Socket Bayonet.

Promotion	Bronze Rank	Silver Rank	Gold Rank
Combat Promotion	+20% hit points and damage	+30% hit points and damage	+45% hit points and damage

Unit stance modifications

When Line Infantry are assigned to different unit stances, their Statistics changes.

• In the Volley Mode, they have 13 range and 2.7 Rate of Fire.
• In the Stagger Mode, they have 16 range and 3.0 Rate of Fire.
• In the Defend Mode, they have 13 range and 3.0 Rate of Fire and gain additional 10% hand, ranged, and siege resistances.
• In Stand Ground, They have 12 range and 2.0 Rate of Fire and 13 Damage that ignores all resistance (Despite it using the siege damage icon, siege resists do not reduce damage).

Upgrades

The Line Infantry starts at Veteran level, giving him +20% hit points and damage.

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Royal Guard Habsburgs	350 wood 350 coin	Upgrades Mounted Infantry and Line Infantry to Royal Guard (+40% hit points and damage); requires Veteran Habsburgs
	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food 1,500 wood	Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted/Imperial (+50% hit points and damage)

• The Legendary Native Warriors technology is available in the Capitol for European civilizations and the Mexicans, the State Capitol for the United States, and the Town Center for Asian (as Exalted Natives) and Native American civilizations.
• For African civilizations, native warriors are upgraded automatically and for free.

Civilization differences

• If the player picks The Royalist to aging up to the Imperial Age with the Dutch, the player will receive 17 Line Infantry.
• The Germans can train Line Infantry from the Royal Embassy after sending the "Prince-Electors" Home City Card and choosing the House of Habsburg as ally, also allowing them to train Mounted Infantry. The Line Infantry take 1 population and can be upgraded to Royal Guard level.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Cavalry, shock infantry
Weak vs.	Light infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Corselet (+25%; Spanish only) Second Guarantee (+15%; Mexicans only) Flint Lock (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Paper Cartridge (+15%) Second Guarantee (+15%; Mexicans only) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Armatoloi (+5%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack) Socket Bayonet (+20% hand attack)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance) Hualcana (+5%; Inca only)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Speed	Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Train time	Cree Kinship (-45%) Standing Army (-25%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Immigrants (-10%) New Mexico Immigration (-10%; United States only) Philhellenism (-10%) Strangers' Quarters (-10%; Africans only)
Cost	Philhellenism (-10%) Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Other	Yoruba Herbalism (regenerates hit points when close to a tree or Berry Bush) Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
Penalties	Corselet (-15% speed; Spanish only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost; Germans only) Second Guarantee (+30% train time; Mexicans only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Line Infantry

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
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

All

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry get +10% damage; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry get +15% damage instead
Native Treaties	Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans)
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
Native Warriors	Native warriors cost -25% (also +3 Uhlans for the Germans)
Native Warrior Combat	Native warriors get +15% hit points and damage
TEAM Native Weapon Trade	Native warrior train limit +20%
Blood Brothers	Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined/Veteran and Champion/Honored/Royal Guard; Native Embassies get +40% hit points and +5 build limit (also +4 Uhlans for the Germans)
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry get +5% speed and -35% train time
Fencing School	Infantry (except Warrior Priests and Skull Knights) and shock infantry train time -40% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)

• "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.
• "Native Treaties" is available to Africans, Europeans (except the Maltese), Federal Americans, and Native Americans, and ships 4 Line Infantry if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Habsburg palace.
• "Native Alliance" is available to the Aztecs, Inca, Indians, and Japanese.
• "Native Warriors" is available to Europeans, the Lakota and Mexicans.
• "Native Warrior Combat" is available to the French, Haudenosaunee, and Inca, and also Mexicans upon revolting to the Maya, and British upon revolting to Haiti.
• "TEAM Native Weapon Trade" is available to the Dutch and Lakota, and also British and French upon revolting to Canada.
• "Blood Brothers" is available to the Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Lakota, Portuguese, Russians, and Spanish, and also British upon revolting to Canada or Haiti.
• "Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.
• "Fencing School" is available to Europeans (except the French, Maltese, Ottomans, and Spanish), the Aztecs and Indians.

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Feudal Armies	All units' train time -15%; hero respawn time -15%
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15% (also affects shipments)

Asians

Card	Description	Age
Native Warrior Hitpoints	Native warriors get +30% hit points and +10% speed (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
Native Warrior Attack	Native warriors get +30% damage and -25% train time

• "Native Warrior Hitpoints" is not available to the Japanese.
• "Native Warrior Attack" is not available to the Indians.

British

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

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villagers, healing units, Envoys, and Disciples get +5% speed
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and damage
Acupuncture	All units' (except monks) train time -20%; Heavy Cannon, Flying Crow, and Summer Palace banner army spawn time -5%

• "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

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry get +5% speed
Temenyas	Gunpowder infantry get +5% damage; Neftenya can be trained in the Commerce Age
Ignatian Spirituality	All units get +5% hit points and regeneration capability even while in combat

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15%; "TEAM 4 Zenata Rider", "Recruit Xebec", "Recruit Xebecs", and "15 Berber Allies" cost no coin
Sevites	Maroons, native warriors, and villagers now regenerate hit points at a rate of 0.25% per second when idle; Yoruba Eso Rider hit point degeneration rate -60% and Militiaman hit point degeneration rate -10%, and for both stops at 25% hit points
Louverture Liberation	Delivers 6 Citizens; Citizens can be trained at Town Centers for 70 coin; Fishing Boats can be trained at Docks; native warriors get +20% hit points and +5% speed
Wanderlust	Land military units and land villagers get +5% hit points; land villagers and construction wagons get +5% speed

• "Loyal Warriors" is available to the Italians, Maltese, Ottomans, and Portuguese upon revolting to the Barbary States.
• "Sevites" and "Louverture Liberation" are available to the British and French upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa, and can be sent 3 times.

Federal Americans

Card	Description	Age
Indian Friendship/Chimayo Genizarios	Each different allied native tribe sends a large shipment of their respective native warriors and upgrades them to Elite and Champion; native warriors train time -10%; native warrior shipments and "Native Treaties" arrive time -50%; costs 500 food, 500 wood

• "Indian Friendship" is available to the United States and "Chimayo Genizarios" to the Mexicans.
• "Indian Friendship"/"Chimayo Genizarios" ships 4 Line Infantry, and upgrades them to Royal Guard (if not already), if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Habsburg palace.

French

Card	Description	Age
Wilderness Warfare	Coureurs des Bois, Cree Coureurs des Bois, native warriors, Skirmishers, and Settlers get +20% hit points
TEAM French Auxiliaries Combat	Native warriors get +10% hit points and damage
Royal Fencing School	Delivers 3 Royal Musketeers; infantry and shock infantry train time -40%
Cult of the Supreme Being	The player gains +10% XP from training units and other players receive -10% XP from defeating them; Sansculottes gather resources from Crates 50% faster; food from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 25% faster; wood from trees and Mango Groves and coin from mines 20% faster; food from huntable and Herded animals, Mills, Farms and coin from Estates 15% faster
Sister Republics	Delivers 15 random European native units; costs 1,500 food

• "Cult of the Supreme Being" and "Sister Republics" are available upon revolting to Revolutionary France.
• "Sister Republics" ships European native units from all Royal Houses, excepting the House of Jagiellon, House of Phanar, and House of Vasa.

Germans

Card	Description	Age
Prince-Electors	Delivers 1 Royal Embassy Wagon; choose any one German Royal House as an ally that will allow you to recruit and upgrade units at the Royal Embassy; allied units will now take population in the Royal Embassy and Home City; removes cost for Royal Houses alliances; player can choose from Hanover, Habsburg, Oldenburg, Wettin, and Wittelsbach; doubled most train limits for allied native units
17 Habsburg Allies	Delivers 17 Line Infantry; grants Veteran and Royal Guard Habsburgs

• "Mercenary Loyalty" reduces cost of "17 Habsburg Allies" by 25%.
• "Prince-Electors" enables Mounted Infantry, Line Infantry, Veteran Habsburgs and Royal Guard Habsburgs at the Royal Embassy, if the player chooses to ally with the House of Habsburg

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry get +8 Line of Sight
Conservative Tactics	Infantry get +10% hit points and damage
Native Warrior Conscription	Native warrior cost -25% and train limit +20%
Wampum	Training units and constructing buildings grants +35% XP; unit train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
Sahelian Kingdoms	Native warriors get +15% hit points and damage; mercenaries and outlaws get +10% hit points and damage

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military units get +10% speed
Couriers	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry train time -45%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 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
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% all melee attack damage; Rajputs get +20% all melee attack damage instead; +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage
Zamindars	Infantry train time -20%; delivers 2 Sepoys instead of 1 Hindu Villager with each Home City shipment, including this one

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points
Schiavoni Swords	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry get +15% all melee attack damage

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
Onin War	Infantry get +33% siege attack damage
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +5% speed, +10 Line of Sight and train units 15% faster; land military unit train time -20%, artillery and banner army train time -10% instead

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Moccasins	Infantry get +10% speed
Black Arrow	Native warriors train time -85%
Winter Counts	Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post build; all units get +2% hit points
Squires	Military buildings train and research work 80% faster, except Forts which train and research work 260% faster

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
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
Colegio de San Nicolás	Delivers Large Collection of Books (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
National Servant	All units get +10% hit points; Padre healing 200% faster
Bastimento	Villager train time -20%; infantry train time -25%, Revolutionary train time -50% instead
Pok Ta Pok	Infantry get +10% speed and -10% train time

• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Bustamante" is available upon selecting the San Luis Potosí Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Bastimento" is available upon revolting to Rio Grande.
• "Pok Ta Pok" is available upon revolting to the Maya.

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
Matrakci School	Infantry and shock infantry train time -30%; Janissary, Azap, Nizam Fusilier, Abus Gunner, and Humbaraci train time -40% instead

Portuguese

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

Russians

Card	Description	Age
Ransack	Infantry get +50% siege attack damage
Dueling School	Infantry train time -25%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
Peninsular Guerrillas	Ranged infantry get +20% damage, musket infantry get +10% damage instead; Skirmishers now see the Line of Sight of enemies they attacked for 3 seconds
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic units get +10 Line of Sight

Swedes

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

United States

Card	Description	Age
United States Army	The General, Minutemen, and heavy infantry get +15% hit points and damage
Indiana Mobilization	Delivers 1 Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game including this one; unit train time (except Heavy Cannons), technology research time, and age-up time -10%; costs 250 food, 250 wood

• "Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting the Indiana Federal State.

In-game dialogue

The Line Infantry speaks German using the German Musketeer's dialogue files.

Trivia

• The Line Infantry is modeled after the infantry regiments of the Imperial Austrian Army under the rule of the Habsburg monarchy. Its in-game appeareance is based on the uniform used during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • The helmet of the infantry regiments' uniform was replaced by a shako in 1806, although many of them retained the helmet until 1809.
• The term "Line infantry" refers to the basic European infantry from the late 17th century to the mid-19th century that used linear tactics. They consisted of infantry battalions formed in lines of 2, 3 or 4 ranks of soldiers and fired volleys with their muskets at the command of officers. Linear tactics were used to great effect by Frederick the Great and his enemies during The Seven Years' War, and very successfully used by Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfield.
  • Therefore, the Carolean, the Musketeer, the Regular, the Soldado, and some other Musketeer-type units could be considered "Line infantry".
  • A more historically accurate name for the unit could be Whitecoat, as they were known due to the traditional color for the Austrian infantry uniform, in a similar manner to the British Redcoats.

History

“

The House of Habsburg ruled much of Austria, Central Europe, and even occasionally Iberia and Mexico from the medieval period up through the 20th century. During the early-modern period, several tacticians – most notably Gustavus Adolphus – departed from the existing standards of engagement and innovated. The result was a system where tightly-packed lines of firearm-bearing troops fired a series of volleys at their adversaries. Although effective in an open field, they were not without weaknesses, and any sort of combat on rough or dense terrain or against irregular combatants put them at a disadvantage.

”

Gallery

Line Infantry image from the Compendium section

An in-game Line Infantry