Pets are animals in Age of Empires III that can be controlled by the player. They possess the AbstractPet tag.
Overview[]
One of the more common pets in the game is the Dog, as an Explorer Dog is available to all Explorers through the Home City, apart from the Spanish, who can train five War Dogs instead.
Heroes and Town Centers can train pet Cougars with the Tupi Animal Lore technology, and Indian monks can train pet Tigers with the right Home City Card. Before the Definitive Edition, War Chiefs could train pet Coyotes, Wolves, or Jaguars through a Home City Card.
There are also other pets, usually found through treasures or sent from the Home City, available to all civilizations.
The WarChiefs enables civilizations added in the pack to use their War Chief to tame treasure guardians, including animals, however the resulting units are still tagged as Treasure guardians and not as Pets. One visible difference is that Pets are able to move in a line formation (even if they don't have the stances buttons on their unit menu), while tamed Treasure guardians are not capable of this level of organization.
Villagers have 2.0x bonus damage against pets. Concomitantly, Pets have a negative multiplier against Villagers.
All Pets, with the exception of the Lamb of the Creator and the cheat unit Fluffy, also have the hand infantry tag. Pets cannot attack buildings.
List of Pets[]
Aiz the Tame Elephant
Axehilt the Tame Tiger
Beau the Barbaric Boar
Big Jerome the Pet Polar Bear
Buck the Tame Wolf
Buttercup the Pet Cougar
Duber the Pet Monkey
Explorer's Dog
Fang the Tame Coyote
Fierce Cougar
Fluffy
Freitag the Pet Macaque
Gentle Pete the Pet Bear
Honcho the Pet Grizzly Bear
Intrepid Turkey Scout
Janey the Pet Jaguar
Kermond the Pet Monitor Lizard
Lamb of the Creator
Lhota the Pet Lion
Nili the Playful Hippo
Old Doug the Orangutan
Pambuu the Tame Warthog
Pete-Pete the Tame Panda
Peruvian Dog
Randy the Pet Rhino
Sanura the Tame Leopard
Tengri Wolf
Wagner the Pet White Tiger
War Dog
White Buffalo
Changelog[]
The WarChiefs[]
- Pets (except the Explorer's Dog and the War Dog) cannot reveal stealth enemies.
Definitive Edition[]
- All Pets can reveal stealth enemies.