Ranger

Ranger
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Infantry Light infantry* Ranged infantry Gunpowder trooper Rifle infantry
Civilization(s)	British
Age	Commerce Age
Requires	Queen's Rangers*
Required Home City Card	"Rangers"
Training
Trained at	Barracks Fort Galleon American Citadel*
Cost	60 Food 60 Coin 1 Population
Train time	33 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	95
Resistance	35% Ranged
Speed	4.25
Line of Sight	26
Train XP	12
Kill XP	12
Ranged attack
Damage	19 Ranged
Range	2-18
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	2.5x vs. Light ranged cavalry 2.5x vs. Ranged shock infantry 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry 0.6x vs. Cavalry 0.6x vs. Shock infantry*
Siege attack
Damage	13 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	9 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	2.0x vs. Light ranged cavalry 2.0x vs. Ranged shock infantry 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry 0.75x vs. Cavalry 0.75x vs. Shock infantry

“	British skirmisher. Equipped with a rifle to counter Heavy Infantry more effectively, but has less range.	”
—In-game description

The Ranger is a ranged gunpowder infantry in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the British and replaces the Longbowman after sending the "Rangers" card or researching Queen's Rangers. It was introduced in update 13.690.

In-game information

“

The Ranger is a quick ranged infantry unit with high ranged resistance but low hit points. It becomes available once the ‘Rangers’ card has been sent. This card replaces the training of archaic Longbowmen in the Barracks with Rangers.

”

Overview

Similar to the Skirmisher, the Ranger is strong against heavy infantry and light ranged cavalry, but weak against heavy cavalry and artillery. Rangers have a slightly increased food cost and reduced coin cost, less range, and less hit points than Skirmishers, but deal more damage, have larger Line of Sight, slightly higher speed, and resist slightly more ranged damage.

Rangers can be obtained after sending the card "Rangers" from the Home City, allowing the player to train them at Barracks, Forts, and Galleons, replacing Longbowmen. Once the "Rangers" card is sent, all Longbowmen present on the map and their Home City Cards will be replaced with Rangers instead, and the "Yeomen" and "Siege Archery" Home City Cards will be replaced with "Baker Rifles" and "Ranger Combat", respectively, so players should be careful if they want to continue using Longbowmen and their upgrades, or favor Rangers over them. Rangers can also be trained instead of Longbowmen after researching Queen's Rangers in the Industrial Age, which also sends 30 Rangers and upgrades them to Veteran level.

Researching Roger's Rangers in the Commerce Age will send 5 Rangers and replaces Longbowmen present on the map with Rangers, but it will not allow players to train them.

Due to being gunpowder units, Rangers will benefit from upgrades like Flint Lock and Paper Cartridge, which makes them useful support units with Musketeers, who also benefit from these upgrades. Additionally, their increased bonus damage, combined with Musketeers' high ranged attack, allows them to take down heavy infantry more easily.

Upgrades

After sending "Rangers" from the Home City, all Longbowmen upgrades will be replaced with Ranger upgrades. Longbowmen upgrades will also benefit Rangers.

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Veteran Rangers	200 wood 200 coin	Upgrades Rangers to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)
	Guard Rangers	600 wood 600 coin	Upgrades Rangers to Guard (+30% hit points and damage); requires Veteran Rangers
Imperial Age	Imperial Rangers	1,500 wood 1,500 coin	Upgrades Rangers to Imperial (+50% hit points and damage, +5% resistance); requires Guard Rangers

Consulate unit

Roger's Ranger
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Infantry Light infantry Ranged infantry Gunpowder trooper Rifle infantry Consulate unit
Civilization(s)	Chinese Indians
Age	Fortress Age
Training
Cost	1 Population
Statistics
Hit points	95
Resistance	30% Ranged
Speed	4.25
Line of Sight	26
Kill XP	12
Ranged attack
Damage	19 Ranged
Range	2-18
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	2.5x vs. Light ranged cavalry 2.5x vs. Ranged shock infantry 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry 0.6x vs. Cavalry 0.6x vs. Shock infantry*
Siege attack
Damage	13 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	9 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	2.0x vs. Light ranged cavalry 2.0x vs. Ranged shock infantry 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry 0.75x vs. Cavalry 0.75x vs. Shock infantry

“	British skirmisher. Equipped with a rifle to counter Heavy Infantry more effectively, but has less range.	”
—In-game description

The Roger's Ranger is a counterpart of the Ranger, which starts with +10% hit points and damage. In The Asian Dynasties and before update 14.43676, there was a unit of the same name that used the Skirmisher' icon and model visual.

Upgrades

The Roger's Ranger is automatically upgraded in the Fortress Age, Industrial Age, and Imperial Age:

• +20% hit points and damage
• +30% hit points and damage
• +50% hit points and damage

Civilization differences

• The Chinese and Indians can get Roger's Rangers by allying with the British at the Consulate, which provides British Brigade (16 Roger's Rangers).

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Heavy infantry, light ranged cavalry, ranged shock infantry
Weak vs.	Heavy cavalry, hand shock infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Flint Lock (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Paper Cartridge (+15%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Armatoloi (+5%) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand damage) Somali Jile Daggers (-35% hand attack Rate of Fire) Counter Infantry Rifling (+1.0 multiplier vs. heavy infantry) Kalthoff Repeaters (+0.1 multiplier vs. light infantry)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3) Schützenfest (+1)
Range	Schützenfest (+1)
Cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin) Golden Liberty (-5% coin)
Train time	Standing Army (-25%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Immigrants (-10%)
Other	British Brigade (delivers 16 Roger's Rangers; Chinese and Indians only) Roger's Rangers (delivers 5 Rangers; transforms all Longbowmen into Rangers; British only) Queen's Rangers (delivers 30 Rangers; grants the Veteran upgrade; Rangers can be trained at Barracks, Forts, and Galleons instead of Longbowmen; British only) Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Ranger

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Purple	Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE number of times
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry damage +10%; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry damage +15% instead

• "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.

Asian

Card	Description	Age
Good Faith Agreements	Consulate unit train time -50%; Consulate technology cost -40% (-300 export for Brigades), research time -50% (except Brigades)

British

Card	Description	Age
6 Rangers	Delivers 6 Rangers
8 Rangers	Delivers 8 Rangers
8 Rangers	Delivers 8 Rangers
13 Rangers	Delivers 13 Rangers
15 Rangers	Delivers 15 Rangers
10 Rangers	Delivers 10 Rangers
20 Rangers	Delivers 20 Rangers
Baker Rifles	Ranger Line of Sight and ranged attack range +4, bonus damage against heavy infantry +0.25
Rangers	Fully replaces Longbowmen with Rangers at Barracks, Home City, and on the map; grants Guard Rangers
Ranger Combat	Ranger hit points and damage +15%
Fencing School	Infantry (except Warrior Priest and Skull Knight) and shock infantry train time -40%
13 Rangers	Delivers 13 Rangers
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)
Morgan's Continental Sharpshooters	Delivers 12 Revolutionary Sharpshooters; transforms all Skirmishers/Bersaglieri/Rangers into Revolutionary Sharpshooters; enables Revolutionary Sharpshooters to be trained at Forts
Pennsylvania Long Rifles	Skirmisher, Ranger, Bersagliere, and Papal Zouave Line of Sight +3, ranged attack range +2; State Militia, Militiaman, and Spy Line of Sight and ranged attack range +4

• "6 Rangers", "8 Rangers", "10 Rangers", "15 Rangers", and "20 Rangers" replace Longbowmen Home City Cards after sending "Rangers".
• "Baker Rifles" and "Ranger Combat" replace "Yeomen" and "Siege Archery", respectively, after sending "Rangers".
• "13 Rangers" is available upon revolting to Canada.
• "Wanderlust" is available upon revolting to South Africa.
• "Morgan's Continental Sharpshooters" and "Pennsylvania Long Rifles" are available upon revolting to the United States.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%
Western Reforms	Unit hit points and damage +8%

• "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry speed +5%

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8

Inca

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%

• "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	Unit all melee attack damage +15%; Rajput hand attack damage +20% instead, +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrade cost -20%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints	Gunpowder trooper hit points +15%

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Changelog

Definitive Edition

• Rangers have 30% ranged resistance and a ×1.75 multiplier against heavy infantry, ×2.0 ranged multiplier against light cavalry and ranged shock infantry, and ×0.75 against cavalry and hand shock infantry.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.12327, Rangers have 35% ranged resistance.
• Although not listed in the patch notes, with update 13.18214, the Ranger is tagged as light infantry.
• With update 13.58326, Rangers have a ×2.0 multiplier against heavy infantry, ×2.5 ranged multiplier against light cavalry and ranged shock infantry, ×0.6 vs. cavalry and ×0.5 vs. shock infantry.
• With update 14.43676, the cosmetic for Guard Ranger was fixed.
• With patch 15.59076, Rangers can be trained at the American Citadel.

Trivia

• While the unit's name refer to the Roger's Rangers, the "95" on its hat and the uniform of the Imperial Ranger match the uniforms of the British Army's Rifle Brigade, more commonly known as the 95th Rifles or Green Jackets, which served from the dawn of the 19th century to the present day, and were featured in the Bernard Cornwell Sharpe novels and television series.
• Due to a bug, the Consulate version of Rangers have 30% ranged resistance instead of 35%.

History

“

When the British Empire began to expand into the heart of North America, it soon found out that traditional volley tactics, long employed to great effect by their Longbowmen and Musketeers, proved ineffectual in the rugged, heavily forested terrain of the frontier land. Following the devastating Braddock's Defeat as part of the French and Indian War in 1755, the British founded the King's Royal Rifle Corps, a regiment of infantrymen who adopted warfare tactics used by Native Americans to adapt to their new environment. These included the use of lighter weapons that allowed for greater mobility, as well as the early use of camouflage. The 95th Experimental Rifles complimented the King's Royal Rifle Corps through the use of Baker Rifles, which, while taking longer to reload, could snipe targets from over twice the distance of muskets, making the regiment much more versatile. The impact of these innovations was so decisive that the Rifle Corps would soon become a staple of nearly all major battles in British military history henceforth. Because of their adeptness to the fickle climate of North America, riflemen formed much of the backbone of early American colonial armies. At the start of the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress founded 10 rifle companies in response to the British attacks on Lexington and Concord. Among the ranks of these riflemen were veterans of Roger's Rangers, a recruitment of frontiersmen who fought during the French and Indian War.

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Gallery

Ranger image from the Compendium section

In-game (Veteran) Ranger. Notice the "95" in its hat

In-game Guard/Imperial Ranger