Native Scout

Native Scout
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Infantry Melee infantry Native warrior
Age	Exploration Age
Abilities	Stealth mode (since The WarChiefs) Reveal stealth enemies (since The WarChiefs)
Training
Trained at	Town Center (Native Americans, with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
Wood	90 (Native Americans, with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
Training time	20 seconds (Native Americans, with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
Training limit	5 25 (Native Americans, with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
Statistics
Hit points	120
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	5.5
Line of Sight	22
Population	1 (Native Americans, with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
XP train bounty	9
XP bounty	9
Melee attack
Damage	5
Multipliers	×0.25 vs. Villagers
Rate of Fire	1.5
Siege attack
Damage	5
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	A Native American scout. Good for exploration, but has a weak attack.	”
—In-game description

The Native Scout is an infantry native warrior in Age of Empires III that can be rescued from treasures. It is a scout unit with high speed and LOS, but low hit points and attack.

Overview

Since the release of The WarChiefs, the Native Scout can use stealth mode. Since there are few upgrades available to them, it is not good in later Ages. However, as they are classified as native warriors, they are affected by cards and technologies that improves native warriors, including Legendary Native Warriors/Exalted Natives.

In some situations, Native Scouts can be better than Coyote Runners, which can be seen here.

Lakota players can make Native Scouts move very fast, almost as fast as a cavalry (6.6) with the Wind Runner Home City Card and the Lakota War Chief's aura.

Upgrades

Since the Definitive Edition, the Native Scout is upgraded in the Fortress Age and in the Industrial Age.

+25% hit points

+50% hit points

Civilization differences

• The French starts with a Native Scout alongside the Explorer.
• All Native American civilizations introduced in The WarChiefs have the "Advanced Scouts" Home City Card which allows Native Scouts to be trained at the Town Center, as well as increasing their hit points and attack, but all Native Scouts will use up 1 population.
  • The Lakota can easily mass-produce Native Scouts this way with "Native Warriors" and "Black Arrows" cards, which reduces their cost to 67 wood and train time to 3 seconds.
  • Haudenosaunee Native Scouts trained this way will have 365 hit points, 25 melee attack, and 20 siege attack with all available improvements, including the Haudenosaunee War Chief's aura.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing (weak infantry with Advanced Scouts Home City Card)
Weak vs.	Everything, especially ranged infantry and artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Thin Red Line (+20%, British only) Cree Tanning (+5%) Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Legendary Native Warriors/Exalted Natives (+50%)
Attack	Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Mapuche Tactics (+50% siege attack) Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Yoga (+5%) Master Lessons (+10%) Legendary Native Warriors/Exalted Natives (+50%)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%, Germans only) Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+20%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Sight	Town Watch (+2, Europeans only)
Creation speed	Standing Army (-25%, Europeans only) Quechuan Diet (-25%)
Penalties	Thin Red Line (-25% speed, British only) Coffee Trade (-10% speed, Dutch only)

Home City Cards

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

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team All Card Description Age HC level Native Warrior Combat Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack 25 The Native Warrior Combat card is available to French and Haudenosaunee. Aztecs Card Description Age HC level Fencing School Infantry train time -40% 10 Dutch Card Description Age HC level TEAM Infantry Hitpoints Infantry get +15% hit points 10 French Card Description Age HC level Wilderness Warfare Coureurs des Bois, Skirmishers, and native warriors get +20% hit points 25 TEAM Improved Native Warriors Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack 1 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Haudenosaunee Card Description Age HC level Infantry Attack Infantry get +15% attack 10 Infantry Hitpoints Infantry get +15% hit points 10 Infantry Combat Infantry get +15% hit points and attack 25 TEAM Scout Infantry Infantry get +8 LOS 10 Native Americans Card Description Age HC level Advanced Scouts Native Scouts can be trained at the Town Center and get +50% hit points, +200% attack, ×20.0 multiplier against heroes, ×10.0 multiplier against mercenaries, +20 train limit, but also uses 1 population Although it is not described, this card also enables the War Chiefs to train Native Scouts as well. 25 Native Warriors Native warriors cost -25% 10 Russians Card Description Age HC level Ransack Infantry get +50% siege attack 25 TEAM Dueling School Infantry train time -25%; banner army train time -12% 25 Lakota Card Description Age HC level Wind Runner Infantry get +10% speed 10 Black Arrow Native warrior train time -85% 10 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Hand Infantry Attack Melee infantry get +15% attack 10 TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Native Scouts can snare enemies.
• Native Scouts have no multipliers.
• Native Scouts have no training limit.

The WarChiefs

• Native Scouts give 0 XP when trained and 14 XP when killed.

Definitive Edition

• Since the Definitive Edition, Native Scouts can't snare by default. The Advanced Scouts card allows them to snare.
• Native Scouts have a ×0.1 melee attack multiplier against villagers. This negative multiplier is removed upon reaching the Commerce Age. Although is not listed in the patch notes, with update 13088, Native Scouts have a ×0.25 melee attack multiplier against villagers and this negative multiplier is no longer removed upon reaching the Commerce Age.
• Native Scouts give 9 XP when trained or killed.
• Native Scouts now gain +25% hit points upon reaching the Fortress Age and +50% hit points upon reaching the Industrial Age.
• With update 20322, Native Scouts have a train limit of 5.

Random names

• Arapaho Scout
• Apache Scout
• Arawak Scout
• Aymara Scout
• Blackfoot Scout
• Chinook Scout
• Crow Scout
• Haida Scout
• Huron Scout
• Karankawa Scout
• Kickapoo Scout
• Kiowa Scout
• Inuit Scout
• Miskatonic Scout
• Paiute Scout
• Pawnee Scout
• Navajo Scout
• Shoshone Scout
• Ute Scout
• Wichita Scout
• Yanomamo Scout

In-game dialogue

Regardless of the random tribe name given, the Native Scout shares the same dialogue with the Nootka.

Trivia

• The Miskatonic scout is the only one whose name doesn't reference a native american tribe. Instead it seems that his name comes from the fiction books written by H.P. Lovecraft.

History

“

Europeans who colonized the Americas often sought help from Native American scouts. The scouts were mostly used to gather intelligence on enemy military movements. In 1866, Congress passed a statute that established a branch of the military known as the "Indian Scouting Service." This formalized the relationship between Native American Scouts and the United States Army. When fighting Native Americans in the west, the United States made use of historic tribal animosities by recruiting scouts from the enemy of whomever they were fighting. For example, Pawnees scouted against the Cheyenne, and Crow scouts helped General Custer before the Battle of Little Bighorn.

”

Gallery

An in-game Native Scout

Native Scout stats

Another in-game Native Scout

See also

• Chasqui – Inca counterpart
• Eagle Scout – Aztec counterpart