Organ Gun (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the unit in Age of Empires III. For the unit in Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms, see Organ Gun (Age of Empires II).

Organ Gun
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Artillery
Civilization	Portuguese
Age	Fortress Age
Training
Trained at	Artillery Foundry
Wood	100
Coin	300
Training time	40 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resists	75% vs. Ranged
Speed	4 (Limber mode) 2.4 (Bombard mode)
Line of Sight	30
Population	4
XP train bounty	40
XP bounty	40
Siege attack
Damage	33 * 6 (198 total)
Multipliers	x0.75 vs. Buildings x0.5 vs. Artillery, Cavalry, Ships, Shock infantry, and Arrow Knights
Range	26
Area of Effect	2
Rate of Fire	4.0

“	Artillery that fires multiple projectiles. Better against infantry than buildings.	”
—In-game description

The Organ Gun is an artillery unit in Age of Empires III that is unique to the Portuguese, which replaces the Falconet, and can be trained at the Artillery Foundry.

Overview

Unlike the Falconet which it replaces, the Organ Gun hits multiple times at an enemy target to mimic the Falconet's damage.

While it's slightly cheaper than the Falconet and only costs 4 population, the Organ Gun has less health and damage penalty modifiers against many targets, while Falconet has damage boosting modifiers instead. Organ Guns are still useful in clearing out clumps of units, as Falconets can occasionally leave a few units behind because of their single cannon fire compared to a burst from an Organ Gun. Also, switching from Limber mode to Bombard mode and vice versa is faster with the Organ Gun.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Rabaulds	250 food, 250 wood	Upgrades Organ Guns to Rabaulds (+25% hit points and attack)
	Imperial Rabaulds	1,500 wood, 1,500 coin	Upgrades Rabaulds to Imperial (+50% hit points and attack); requires Rabaulds

Further statistics

As Organ Guns are unique to the Portuguese, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry
Weak vs.	Cavalry, artillery especially Culverins, Arrow Knights, ships, buildings
Improvements
Hit points	Professional Gunners (+10%)
Attack	Heated Shot (+1.5x multiplier vs. ships)
Sight	Town Watch (+2) Gunner's Quadrant (+6)
Speed	Trunion (+15%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Creation speed	Incan Chasquis Messengers (-10%)
Train cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

As Organ Guns are unique to the Portuguese, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards that are shown on the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Organ Gun

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Chinese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Engineering School Abus Gun, Grenadier, Falconet/Organ Gun, Culverin, Mortar, Horse Artillery, Petard, Ram, Mantlet, Light Cannon, Flamethrower, Hand Mortar, Siege Elephant, Flaming Arrow, and Morutaru train time -15%; Heavy Cannon, Rocket, Great Bombard, and Flying Crow train time -5%; Black Flag Army and Mongolian Army train time -15% 25 Europeans Card Description Age HC level TEAM Artillery Hitpoints Artillery, Abus Guns, and Grenadiers get +15% hit points 10 The TEAM Artillery Hitpoints card is available to Ottomans and Portuguese (in the Fortress Age and a level 25 Home City). Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Japanese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheaper Unit Upgrades Unit upgrades cost -20% 1 Portuguese Card Description Age HC level 2 Organ Guns Ships 2 Organ Guns 1 3 Organ Guns Ships 3 Organ Guns 1 5 Organ Guns Ships 5 Organ Guns 40 Engineering School Artillery train time -30%; Heavy Cannon train time -10% 25 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Organ Guns are trained in 45 seconds, have a speed of 1.6 in bombard mode, and take 2 seconds to shift mode.

Definitive Edition

• Organ Guns are trained in 40 seconds, have a speed of 2.4 in bombard mode, and take 1.5 seconds to shift mode.

History

“

Also called a ribauldequin, this Renaissance-era gun's multiple iron barrels line up side by side. These small caliber (for artillery) projectiles were meant to be fired at the same time, creating a wave of fearsome iron that could tear ranks of enemy foot and cavalry soldiers apart.

”

Gallery

An Organ Gun in Bombard mode

An Organ Gun in Limber mode

Multiple barreled cannons. The gun on the right is similar to the Organ Gun in the game.