Musket Infantry

Musket Infantry is a tag from the class system of Age of Empires III introduced in update 23511. Basically, Musket Infantry are Musketeer-type units. They are general Heavy infantry all-around units, dealing good damage at moderate range and also good against Cavalry in Melee mode. In the game files, they are referred as AbstractMusketeer. They are vulnerable to artillery, Foot Archers and Rifle Infantry.

List of Musket Infantry units

The following units are labeled as Musket Infantry:

• Ashigaru Musketeer
• Bolas Warrior
• Carolean
• Dacoit
• Fusilier
• Gascenya
• Highlander
• Janissary
• Musketeer
• Nizam Fusilier
• Pistolero
• Regular
• Revolutionary
• Sepoy
• Tomahawk

Technologies

The technologies that affect units with Musket Infantry tag or specifically some of those units, are shown below:

• Socket Bayonet (Musket Infantry get +20% melee attack)
• New Order Infantry (Replaces Janissaries shipments from the Home City with Nizam Fusiliers; Heavy infantry get +0.5x melee attack multiplier against cavalry and +0.3x melee attack multiplier against shock infantry; Heavy infantry train time -20%)

Home City Cards

The cards that affect units with Musket Infantry tag or specifically some of those units, are shown in the following table:

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

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team British Card Description Age HC level Musketeer/Grenadier Damage Musketeers and Grenadiers get +15% attack 10 TEAM Musketeers/Grenadier Hitpoints Musket Infantry and Grenade Trooper get +15% hit points 10 Musketeer/Grenadier Combat Musketeers and Grenadiers get +15% hit points and attack 25 Indians Card Description Age HC level Conscript Sepoys Receives 2 Sepoys instead of 1 Villager with every Home City shipment, including this one 1 British East India Company Sepoys, Gurkhas, and Sowars get +10% hit points and attack +1 Villager 25 Battlefield Construction Sepoys can build Barracks, Caravanserai, and Castles +1 Villager 25 Sepoy Resistance Turns all Villagers into Sepoys +1 Villager; costs 2,000 wood 40 Japanese Card Description Age HC level Ashigaru Musketeer Attack Ashigaru Musketeers get +15% attack 10 Close Combat Ashigaru Musketeers get +15% hit points and +1.0x multiplier against cavalry 25 Ottomans Card Description Age HC level Janissary Combat Janissaries get +15% hit points and attack 1 Acemi Olglan School Janissaries cost -20% 25 Battlefield Construction Janissaries can build Barracks, Stables, and Artillery Foundries 25 Portuguese Card Description Age HC level Gunpowder Infantry Attack Musketeers and Cassadores get +15% attack 10 Gunpowder Infantry Combat Musketeers and Cassadores get +15% hit points and attack 25 Russians Card Description Age HC level National Redoubt Musketeers can build Forts and their attack and hitpoints increase by 10%* 40 Swedes Card Description Age Platoon Fire Caroleans get +10% ranged attack, +0.7x multiplier against heavy cavalry and +0.4x multiplier against Shock infantry (Coyote Runners, Chimu Runners, and Disciples) Snaplock Caroleans get +3 range & LOS and Hakkapelits get +1 range & LOS Svea Lifeguard Caroleans get +15% hit points and change their resistance type to ranged; Grenadiers get +25% hit points

Trivia

• There are no minor civilization units with the Musket Infantry tag.
• Tomahawks, Bolas Warriors and Gascenyas are classified as Musket Infantry, but actually they do not wield a musket, they throw and swing axes, bolas and lances instead. The same occurs with the Dacoit and the Pistolero, who are also tagged as Musket Infantry but do not wield a musket.

Related tags

• Unit
• Land Unit
• Land Military
• Ranged Infantry
• Gunpowder Unit