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| “ | 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.
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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
+25% hit points
+50% hit pointsCivilization 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 | |
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| 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%)
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| 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%)
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| Speed |  Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%, Germans only) Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Incan Road-building (+20%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
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| Sight |  Town Watch (+2, Europeans only)
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| Creation speed |  Standing Army (-25%, Europeans only) Incan Chasquis Messengers (-25%)
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| Penalties | Thin Red Line (-25% speed, British only) Coffee Trade (-10% speed, Dutch only)
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Home City Cards[]
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Aztecs[]
Dutch[]
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Indians[]
Haudenosaunee[]
Native Americans[]
Russians[]
Lakota[]
Spanish[]
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Changelog[]
Age of Empires III[]
- Native Scouts can snare enemies.
- Native Scouts have no multipliers.
- Native Scouts have no training limit.
The WarChiefs[]
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
