Mountain Trooper

Mountain Trooper
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Light infantry Gunpowder infantry Ranged Infantry Rifle Infantry Native warrior
Age	Commerce Age
Abilities	Reveals a radius of 24 around units attacked by the Mountain Trooper for 3 seconds Skill Promotion
Training
Trained at	Trading Post or Tambo on a House of Wittelsbach palace Native Embassy
Food	50
Wood	65
Training time	30 seconds
Training limit	15 per House of Wittelsbach palace
Statistics
Hit points	120
Resists	30% vs. Ranged
Speed	4
Line of Sight	22
XP train bounty	12
XP bounty	12
Melee attack
Damage	6
Multipliers	×2.0 vs. Heavy infantry, light cavalry and ranged shock infantry × 0.75 vs. Cavalry and Shock Infantry
Rate of Fire	1.5
Ranged attack
Damage	15
Multipliers	Same as melee
Range	20
Rate of Fire	3.0
Siege attack
Damage	12
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	Bavarian Skirmisher that can spot enemies he recently damaged. Gains higher range and attack speed with Promotions.	”
—In-game description

The Mountain Trooper is a ranged 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 Wittelsbach palace.

Overview

The Mountain Trooper is a ranged infantry unit, it is available starting in the Commerce Age, and like the Skirmisher, is effective against Heavy infantry and Light cavalry, but weak against Heavy cavalry and Artillery. Mountain Troopers have the same hit points, attack, range, multipliers, resistance and cost values of the Skirmisher, but lesser line of sight and trains slightly faster, and like the Salteador, units hit by Mountain Troopers have their line sight temporarily revealed.

Also, Mountain Troopers benefit from the Skill Promotion. They increase their Range and Rate of Fire after defeating a military enemy unit, up to a maximum of three enemy units. Mountain Troopers get +1 range and -10% rate of fire after defeating the first enemy unit; +2 range and -20% rate of fire for the second defeated unit; +3 and -30% rate of fire for the third defeated unit.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Veteran Wittelsbachs	125 wood 125 coin	Upgrades Mountain Troopers to Veteran (+20% hit points and attack)
	Royal Guard Wittelsbachs	350 wood 350 coin	Upgrades Mountain Troopers and Chevaulegers to Royal Guard (+40% hit points and attack); requires Veteran Wittelsbachs
	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food 1,500 wood	Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted/Imperial (+50% hit points and attack)

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Heavy infantry, light cavalry, ranged shock infantry
Weak vs.	Heavy cavalry, Shock Infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Flint Lock (+10%) Thin Red Line (+20%; British only) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Cree Tanning (+10%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Counter Infantry Rifling (+1.0× multiplier vs. heavy infatry) Paper Cartridge (+15%) Yoga (+5%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Clenched Fist (+30% melee attack) Somali Jile Daggers (-35% melee attack ROF) Armatoloi (+5%) Kalthoff Repeaters (+0.1× multiplier vs. light infantry)
Armor	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (additional +10% melee/ranged resistance) Hualcana (+0.5; Incas only)
Range	Schützenfest (+3)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Sight	Town Watch (+2)
Creation speed	Standing Army (-25%) Cree Kinship (-45%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Akan Fontomfrom (-25%) Philhellenism (-10%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin) Golden Liberty (-5% coin) Philhellenism (-10%)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
Penalties	Thin Red Line (-25% speed; British only) Coffee Trade (-10% speed; Dutch only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost; Germans only)

Home City Cards

• Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
• Blue: Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

All

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Native Treaties	Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors		1
Native Warriors	Native warriors cost 25% less resources		10
Native Warrior Combat	Native warriors get +25% hit points and attack		25
TEAM Native Warrior Societies	Native warrior train limit +30%		25
Blood Brothers	Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined/Veteran and Champion/Honored/Royal Guard (if not already)		25
Fencing School	Infantry train time -40%		10
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and Shock Infantry get +5% speed and train time -35%		N/A
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points		10

The Native Treaties and Native Warriors cards are available to European and Native American civilizations.

The Native Treaties card ships 4 Mountain Troopers if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Wittelsbach palace.

The Native Warriors card is not available to Chinese, Ethiopians, Hausa, Indians, Italians and Japanese.

The Native Warrior Combat card is available to French, Haudenosaunee and Incas.

The Blood Brothers card is available to Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Portuguese, Russians, Lakota, and Spanish.

The TEAM Native Warrior Societies card is available to Aztecs, Dutch, Haudenosaunee and Lakota.

The Fencing School card is not available to Chinese, Haudenosaunee, Japanese, Lakota, Mexicans, Ottomans and Spanish.

The Liberation March card is available to Mexicans and Spanish

The Infantry Hitpoints card is available to Haudenosaunee and Italians.

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Feudal Armies	Unit train time -15%; Hero respawn time -15%

Asians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Villager for the Indians)		1
Native Warrior Hitpoints	Native warriors get +30% hit points and +10% speed (also +1 Villager for the Indians)		10
Native Warrior Attack	Native warriors get +30% attack and train time -25%		10

The Native Alliance card is not available to the Chinese.

The Native Warrior Hitpoints card is not available to the Japanese.

The Native Warrior Attack card is not available to the Indians.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and attack		40
Acupuncture	Unit train time -20%		10

Dutch

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

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged Infantry get +5% speed
Temenyas	Gunpowder infantry get +5% attack; Neftenya available in the Commerce Age
Ignatian Spirituality	All units get +5% hit points and regeneration capability even while in combat
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15% (also affects shipments)

French

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Ranged Infantry Attack	Ranged Infantry get +15% attack		10
Wilderness Warfare	Coureurs des Bois, Skirmishers, and native warriors get +20% hit points		25
TEAM French Auxiliaries Combat	Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack		1

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Infantry Attack	Infantry get +15% attack		10
Infantry Combat	Infantry get +15% hit points and attack		25
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 LOS		10

Hausa

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

Incas

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	All land military units get +10% speed
Couriers	Infantry, shock infantry and cavalry train time -45%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Infantry and civilian units get +5% speed; +1 Chasqui
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10%

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% melee attack +1 Villager		40
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and attack		25

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Schiavoni Swords	All cavalry and infantry get +15% hand attack

Japanese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Onin War	Infantry get +33% siege attack		40
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%		1
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +10% speed, +20 LOS and train units 15% faster; Banner army train time -10%; Land military unit train time -20%		25

Lakota

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Moccasins	Infantry get +10% speed		10
Black Arrow	Native warrior train time -85%		10

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Center owned by the player; increases all unit hit points by 2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Plan of Miramare	[Plan] Turns all Salteadores into Voltigeur Skirmishers; Rifle Infantry get +2 LOS and range; costs 1000 food, 1000 wood.
Chimayo Genizarios	Native warrior train time -10%; Native warrior shipments and "Native Treaties" arrive twice as fast; costs 500 food, 500 wood
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings have their work rate increased by 400% and units have their speed increased by 10%

Portuguese

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

Russians

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

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Peninsular Guerrillas	Ranged infantry get +25% attack and Skirmishers now see the LOS of enemies they attacked for 3 seconds		N/A
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 LOS		10

United States

Card	Description	Age
Continental Rangers	Rifle Infantry get +15% hit points and attack
Indian Friendship	Each different allied native tribe sends a large shipment of their respective native warriors; Native warrior train time -10%; Native warrior shipments arrive twice as fast; costs 500 food, 500 wood

The Indian Friendship card ships 3 Mountain Troopers if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Wittelsbach palace.

In-game dialogue

The Mountain Trooper speaks German using the German Crossbowman's dialogue files.

Trivia

• The Mountain Trooper is based on the Gebirgsschützen (Mountain Riflemen, in German), a traditional company of mountain rangers from Upper Bavaria. It started as a local militia force, and eventually became part of the Bavarian Army as Jaegers and other light infantry regiments.
• The Mountain Trooper wears a Tracht, a traditional costume from German-speaking countries usually associated with the Bavarian and Austrian region, with a gamsbart (a plume of fur made from chamois hair) decorating his hat.

History

“

The House of Wittelsbach ruled Bavaria from the medieval period up through the 20th century. Holding a significant amount of territory in the Alpine region, it drew on the people there when fielding portions of its armies. Alpine troops were excellent marksmen with a longstanding tradition of experienced hunting and mountain navigation techniques. Uniquely for many troops of the time, they often used horns for communication when many armies had moved onto newer instruments or techniques.

”

Gallery

Mountain Trooper image from the Compendium section

An in-game Mountain Trooper