The Mapuche are a Native American tribe featured in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post or Tambo at their Trading Post site.
Units[]
Mapuche Ironwood Clubman: Mapuche warrior with a large two-handed club.- Mapuche Bolas Rider: Mapuche ranged cavalry who hurls bolas to slow down enemies and inflict splash damage. Good against cavalry. (Definitive Edition onwards)
Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Mapuche Tactics
|
200 food 200 wood |
Hand infantry siege attack damage +50% |
 Mapuche Treaty of Quillin
|
225 food 225 wood |
Delivers 1 Chests of Coin (100 coin) for every 2 minutes of game time, up to 30 minutes | |
 Mapuche Ad-mapu
|
250 wood 250 coin |
Unit coin cost -10% |
Strategy[]
Mapuche improvements focus on increasing coin reserves and anti-building attacks.
The Mapuche focus on improving coin economy and hand infantry. Mapuche Ad-mapu reduces the coin cost of all units (except villagers) by 10%. Mapuche Treaty of Quillin ships Chests of Coin based on game length (maximum 1,500 coin at 30 min).
Mapuche Tactics increases the siege attack damage of all hand infantry by 50%. This is useful for civilizations with strong hand infantry, such as the Aztecs, Germans, Inca, Japanese, Lakota, and Russians. It can also useful for buffing the Quechua Huaminca, as the Quechua are on quite a few of the maps the Mapuche are.
The Mapuche Ironwood Clubman is a Doppelsoldner-like unit with Area of Effect damage. It is generally slightly worse than a Doppelsoldner. It has a slightly lower dps, fewer hit points, smaller bonus damage against cavalry/shock infantry, and much lower siege damage, but slightly higher speed, no population cost, faster training time, and better scaling with unit upgrades. Like the Doppelsoldner, it naturally counters most enemy hand infantry, even without an increased bonus damage. It is most useful to civilizations which don't get great hand infantry. Since it is great to suddenly pop and surprise a bunch of nearby enemies, it incentivizes the player to build a Native Embassy in the place they suspect action will happen in the future, especially far into the late game.
The Mapuche Bolas Rider is a light ranged cavalry unit. It also has Area of Effect damage and its ranged attack snares units it hits. It counters heavy cavalry, hand shock infantry, and artillery, but has no bonus damage in hand attack mode. However, it is moderately countered by light ranged cavalry and ranged shock infantry (it has 0.75x damage against them).
Militarily, both units are good against heavy cavalry and shock infantry. This means the Mapuche are especially good when suspecting a lot of heavy cavalry or shock infantry from the enemy. The Mapuche Bolas Rider can also be very useful if suspecting densely packed artillery or early artillery pushes. Since both units are available in the Commerce Age, the player can play more heavily into natives early, as the total train limit is quite high for the cost/unit rate of the units.
The Mapuche are the strongest at around 30 minutes of game time, as Mapuche Treaty of Quillin can easily pay for the settlement and itself. It can also be used to counter enemy heavy early aggression, as the Mapuche Bolas Rider counters artillery and the Mapuche Ironwood Clubman can punish any attempt of enemy units to stay still and siege buildings.
In-game dialogue[]
The Mapuche language, Mapudungun, is a language isolate (not related to any language).
- Select 1 Makmo - Boast
- Select 2 Chem? - What?
- Move 1 Kümel - Peaceful
- Attack 1 Yafün - Strength!
History[]
| “ | The Mapuche lived in the modern-day countries of Argentina and Chile and were among that region's first settlers. Hunting, gathering, and small farm plots where they cultivated crops such as potatoes provided most of their food. The Mapuche typically lived in small, widespread communities oriented around family units. Their homes, known as rukas, were wooden huts with thatched roofs. In times of war, the Mapuche would band together for protection in larger groups and choose a "toqui" as leader. The relative stability the Mapuche lived in for centuries was shattered by the encroach of the Spanish during the sixteenth century. The Spanish believed they could easily conquer the Mapuche and their lands. They were mistaken. The Mapuche were fierce warriors, skilled with the hand axe, and consistently battled back the Spanish. After more than a century of warfare, the Spanish admitted defeat and signed a treaty granting the Mapuche rights to their own lands. |
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