Red Lancers

Red Lancers
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Civilization	Dutch
Age	Fortress Age
Research
Researched at	Church
Required Home City Card	Religious Freedom
Coin	1,000
Research time	15 seconds
Effect
Delivers 5 Red Lancers (Stradiots) Enables Stradiots to be trained at the Tavern Stradiot hand attack bonus damage against infantry +0.2, against heavy infantry -10% Stradiots are tagged as lance cavalry

“	Ships 5 Red Lancers (Stradiot-like cavalry) that are good against infantry.	”
—In-game description

Red Lancers (Waardgelders before update 14.43676) is a technology in Age of Empires III that is unique to the Dutch and can be researched at the Church once the Fortress Age is reached and the Religious Freedom Home City Card has been sent. Once researched, 5 Stradiots named Red Lancers will appear in the Home City shipment point and all existing Stradiots will be renamed to Red Lancers. Additionally, it allows Stradiots to be trained at the Tavern, increases by 0.2 their hand attack bonus damage against infantry, decreases their hand attack bonus damage against heavy infantry by 10%, and they are tagged as lance cavalry (AbstractLancer).

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• The technology is named Waardgelders.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 14.43676, the technology is named Red Lancers and allows Stradiots to be trained at the Tavern. Stradiots get +0.2 hand attack multiplier against infantry, -10% hand attack multiplier against heavy infantry, and are tagged as Lancers.