Native Embassy

Native Embassy
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Military
Civilization	All
Age	Commerce Age
Use	Trains allied native warriors, Villagers (with Kinship Ties Home City Card), Wild West outlaws and Captured Mortars (Native Americans only)*
Construction
Requires	Trading Post on a native settlement (except for the Native Americans*)
Wood	100
Max. builders	8
Build time	30 seconds
Build limit	3
Statistics
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
XP build bounty	10
XP bounty	20

“	Trains Native units you are allied with.	”
—In-game description

The Native Embassy is a military building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that becomes available once a Trading Post is built on a minor civilization settlement and the Commerce Age is reached (except for the Native Americans, who can build the Native Embassy by default). It trains native warriors from the minor civilization(s) the player is allied with as well as Wild West outlaw units (Native Americans only).

Tactics

The Native Embassy allows native warriors to be trained closer to the frontline, and at a location that a player desires, rather than the random locations of map-specific settlements.

Note that if the Trading Post on an allied settlement is destroyed, access to that settlement's native warrior will be lost.

Units

Main article: Native warrior

Native Americans

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.	Limit	Civ.
	Villager	100 food	1	99	All
	Chasqui	40 wood, 40 coin	-	1	Incas
	Pistolero*	85 coin	4	∞	All
	Comanchero*	120 coin	6		All
	Renegado*	100 coin	5		All
	Captured Mortar*	150 food, 350 coin	4		All

The Villager requires the Kinship Ties Home City Card to be trained at Native Embassies.

Units with an asterisk (*) can be trained by Native Americans since update 23511.

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Penalties	Code Napoleon (+50% cost, French only) Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost, John Black's Mercenaries only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Native Embassy

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team All Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 The Improved Buildings card is available at a level 1 Home City for the Lakota. The Indians have the TEAM Improved Buildings card instead of Improved Buildings. Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Native Americans Card Description Age HC level 4 Native Scouts Ships 4 Native Scouts and enables your War Chief and Native Embassies to train Native Scouts for 90 wood 1 Kinship Ties Villagers can be trained at Native Embassies, and allows the Native Embassy to be built if they are not available 25 The 4 Native Scouts card is not available to Aztecs and Incas.

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• The Native Embassy can only be built by Villagers.

The Asian Dynasties

• The Native Embassy is not available for the Chinese, Indians, and Japanese.

Definitive Edition

• The Native Embassy can only be built by Explorers/War Chiefs/Monks and Chasquis. With update 23511, the Native Embassy, once again, can only be built by Villagers, except the Dutch, who use the Envoy to build Native Embassies.
• The Native Embassy is available for the Chinese, Indians, and Japanese.
• With update 23511, Native American civilizations can build the Native Embassy by default, which now also can train Wild West outlaws (Pistoleros, Comancheros and Renegados) regardless of the map, and can train Captured Mortars.

Trivia

• The change of originally only Explorers/War Chiefs/Monks and Chasquis could build the Native Embassy in the Definitive Edition was introduced to accommodate the Dutch, who have more buildings than can be displayed on the Settler construction panel. With update 23511, where the Native Embassy can only be built by Villagers once again, the Dutch can only build Native Embassy using the Envoy.

History

“

Establishing an embassy is more than simply erecting a building. An embassy represents one civilization or country formally respecting and acknowledging the legitimacy of another. Embassies serve as powerful symbols in the overall context of how societies conduct business, trade, and sometimes war.

”

Gallery

An in-game Native Embassy