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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.

Overview[]

Similar to the Skirmisher, the Ranger is strong against heavy infantry and light ranged cavalry, but weak against melee cavalry and artillery. Rangers have a slightly increased food cost and reduced coin cost, less range and 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 the Barracks, Fort and Galleon, replacing the Longbowman. Once the "Rangers" card is sent, all Longbowmen present in 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 Veteran Rangers, and upgrading the remaing Rangers to Veteran level.

Researching Roger's Rangers in the Commerce Age will send 5 Rangers and replaces Longbowmen present in 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 attack and multipliers, combined with Musketeers' high ranged attack, allows them to take down heavy infantry more easily.

If the player picks The Adventurer for aging up into the Fortress Age with the British and researched Roger's Rangers, the player will receive 7 Rangers.

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
Age III tech tree aoe3
Veteran infantry Veteran Rangers 200 wood
200 coin
Upgrades Rangers to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Guard infantry Guard Rangers 600 wood
600 coin
Upgrades Rangers to Guard (+30% hit points and damage); requires Veteran Rangers
Imperial Age
Imperial infantry Imperial Rangers 1,500 wood
1,500 coin
Upgrades Rangers to Imperial (+50% hit points and damage, +5% resistance); requires Guard Rangers

Roger's Ranger[]

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:

  • Fortress age up +20% hit points and damage
  • Industrial age up +30% hit points and damage
  • Imperial age up +50% hit points and damage

Civilization differences[]

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 Flint Lock (+10%)
Cree Tanning Cree Tanning (+5%)
Navajo Weaving Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Tar kilns Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack Paper cartridge Paper Cartridge (+15%)
Smokeless Powder Smokeless Powder (+10%)
Armatoloi Armatoloi (+5%)
Yoga Yoga (+5%)
Clenched Fist Clenched Fist (+25% hand damage)
Somali jile daggers Somali Jile Daggers (-35% hand attack Rate of Fire)
Counter Infantry Rifling Counter Infantry Rifling (+1.0 multiplier vs. heavy infantry)
Kalthoff repeaters Kalthoff Repeaters (+0.1 multiplier vs. light infantry)
Resistance Somali oryx shields Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Range Schutzenfest Schützenfest (+1)
Line of Sight Town Watch Town Watch (+3)
Schutzenfest Schützenfest (+1)
Speed Military Drummers Military Drummers (+10%)
Quechuan Mountaineering Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%)
Akan Drums Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Apache Endurance Apache Endurance (+5%)
Train time Standing Army Standing Army (-25%)
Akan Drums Akan Fontomfrom (-20%)
Quechuan Diet Quechuan Diet (-15%)
Immigrants Immigrants (-10%)
Cost Mapuche Ad-mapu Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin)
Golden liberty Golden Liberty (-5% coin)
Other BritishBrigade icon British Brigade (delivers 16 Roger's Rangers; Chinese and Indians only)
Rogers Rangers Roger's Rangers (delivers 5 Rangers; transforms all Longbowmen into Rangers; British only)
Queens Rangers Queen's Rangers (delivers 30 Rangers; grants the Veteran upgrade; Rangers can be trained at Barracks, Forts, and Galleons instead of Longbowmen; British only)
Merritocracy 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 ranged infantry damage TEAM Senegalese Riflemen Ranged infantry damage +10%; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry damage +15% instead
Age III tech tree aoe3
  • "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.

Asian[]

Card Description Age
Good faith agreements Good Faith Agreements Consulate unit train time -50%; Consulate technology cost -40% (-300 export for Brigades), research time -50% (except Brigades)
Age I tech tree aoe3
British
Card Description Age
British Home City 2 (6 Rangers) 6 Rangers Delivers 6 Rangers
Age II tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (8 Rangers INF) 8 Rangers Delivers 8 Rangers
Age III tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (8 Rangers) 8 Rangers Delivers 8 Rangers
Age III tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (13 Rangers) 13 Rangers Delivers 13 Rangers
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
British Home City 2 (15 Rangers) 15 Rangers Delivers 15 Rangers
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
British Home City 2 (10 Rangers) 10 Rangers Delivers 10 Rangers
Age III tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (20 Rangers) 20 Rangers Delivers 20 Rangers
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
British Home City 2 (Baker Rifles) Baker Rifles Ranger Line of Sight and ranged attack range +4, bonus damage against heavy infantry +0.25
Age III tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (Rangers) Rangers Fully replaces Longbowmen with Rangers at Barracks, Home City, and on the map; grants Guard Rangers
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Portuguese Home City 2 (Gunpowder Infantry Combat) Ranger Combat Ranger hit points and damage +15%
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Spanish Home City 3 (Fencing School) Fencing School Infantry (except Warrior Priest and Skull Knight) and shock infantry train time -40%
Age II tech tree aoe3
British Home City 2 (13 Rangers) 13 Rangers Delivers 13 Rangers
Revolution
South Africa Home City (Wanderlust) Wanderlust Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)
Revolution
United States Home City (Morgan Continental Sharpshooters) Morgan's Continental Sharpshooters Delivers 12 Revolutionary Sharpshooters; transforms all Skirmishers/Bersaglieri/Rangers into Revolutionary Sharpshooters; enables Revolutionary Sharpshooters to be trained at Forts
Revolution
United States Home City (Pennsylvania Long Rifles) Pennsylvania Long Rifles Skirmisher, Ranger, Bersagliere, and Papal Zouave Line of Sight +3 and ranged attack range +2; State Militia, Militiaman, and Spy Line of Sight and ranged attack range +4
Revolution
  • "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
Chinese Home City 1 (TEAM Yongle Infrastructure) TEAM Yongle Infrastructure Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%
Age II tech tree aoe3
Western reforms Western Reforms Unit hit points and damage +8%
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
  • "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.
Dutch
Card Description Age
Dutch Home City 2 (Infantry Hitpoints) TEAM Infantry Hitpoints Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead
Age II tech tree aoe3
Ethiopians
Card Description Age
Ethiopian Home City 2 (TEAM Coffee Consumption) TEAM Coffee Consumption Ranged infantry speed +5%
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Haudenosaunee
Card Description Age
Iroquois Home City 2 (Scout Infantry) TEAM Scout Infantry Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8
Age II tech tree aoe3
Inca
Card Description Age
Inca Home City 2 (TEAM Inca Bridges) TEAM Inca Bridges Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%
Age II tech tree aoe3
  • "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.
Indians
Card Description Age
Dravidian martial arts Dravidian Martial Arts Unit all melee attack damage +15%; Rajput hand attack damage +20% instead, +1 Hindu Villager
Age II tech tree aoe3
Shivajis tactics TEAM Shivaji's Tactics Unit hit points and damage +5%
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Japanese
Card Description Age
Japanese Home City 3 (Cheaper Unit Upgrades) TEAM Sengoku Unit upgrades cost -20%
Age IV tech tree aoe 3
Maltese
Card Description Age
Maltese Home City 2 (TEAM Knights of the Round Table) TEAM Knights of the Round Table Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%
Age I tech tree aoe3
Mexicans
Card Description Age
Mexican Home City 2 (TEAM Mariachi) TEAM Mariachi For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Age I tech tree aoe3
Portuguese
Card Description Age
Portuguese Home City 2 (Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints) TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints Gunpowder infantry hit points +15%
Age III tech tree aoe3
Spanish
Card Description Age
Spanish Home City 3 (Inquisition) TEAM Spanish Inquisition Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10
Age II tech tree aoe3

Changelog[]

Age3DE Icon Definitive Edition[]

Age3DE Icon Knights of the Mediterranean[]

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.

Gallery[]

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