Rawhide Covers

Rawhide Covers
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Civilization	Haudenosaunee
Age	Commerce Age
Research
Researched at	Dock
Food	500
Wood	100
Research time	10 seconds
Effect
War ship hit points +30%

“	Warship hitpoints increased.	”
—In-game description

Rawhide Covers is a Big Button technology in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Haudenosaunee and can be researched at the Dock once the Commerce Age is reached. Once researched, it increases the hit points of war ships by 30%.

Overview

With the Industrial Age "Old Ways" Home City Card, the cost is reduced to 500 food, 25 wood. Shipping the "TEAM Great Lakes" Home City Card (available to the British, Haudenosaunee, and Lakota) reduces the cost of this technology by 50% to 250 food, 13 wood.

Home City Cards

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Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Great Lakes	Dock and Port, and their technologies cost -30%; Naval Big Button technologies cost -50% instead

• "TEAM Great Lakes" is available to the British, Haudenosaunee, and Lakota.

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
Old Ways	Big Button technologies cost -50%

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Rawhide Covers gives war ships +20% hit points.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.12327, Rawhide Covers gives war ships +30% hit points, and the cost is changed from 400 food, 400 wood to 500 food, 100 wood.

Bugs and glitches

• Due to a bug, the "Old Ways" card reduces Rawhide Covers wood cost by 50% twice instead of reducing food and wood cost by 50%.