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:

• Akan Ankobia
• Armored Pistoleer
• Ashigaru Musketeer
• Askari
• Black Brunswicker
• Bolas Warrior
• Carolean
• Cossack Daredevil
• Cruzob Infantry
• Dacoit
• Desert Warrior
• Desperado
• Filibuster
• Fusilier
• Gascenya
• Giant Grenadier
• Gunslinger
• Highlander
• Highwayman
• Irish Brigadier
• Janissary
• Levied Gunner
• Line Infantry
• Maigadi
• Maya Holcan Javelineer
• Musketeer
• Nizam Fusilier
• Northern Musketeer
• Pistolero
• Regular
• Royal Musketeer
• Sacred Band Infantry
• Sentinel
• Soldado
• Somali Issa Warrior
• Revolutionary
• Sepoy
• Tomahawk
• Yoruba Oyo Legionary

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:

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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 Snaplock Caroleans get +3 LOS and range; Hakkapelits get +1 LOS and range Svea Lifeguard Caroleans get +15% hit points and now resist ranged attacks; Grenadiers get +25% hit points

Trivia

• Tomahawks, Bolas Warriors, Gascenyas, Desert Warriors, Somali Issa Warriors, and Maya Holcan Javelineers 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, Pistolero, Desperado, and the Gunslinger, who are also tagged as Musket Infantry but do not wield a musket. This is due to balance purposes, so these units can benefit from technologies and Home City Cards that improve the attack and multipliers of heavy infantry against cavalry, or to supply a lack of a civilization has of not having a ranged infantry unit good against cavalry in melee mode (which is the case of the Haudenosaunee with the Tomahawk, the Incas with the Bolas Warrior, and the Ethiopians with the Gascenya).