“ | A dangerous outlaw with a rifle. | ” |
—In-game description |
The Renegado is an outlaw in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs available on the Alaska, Andes, Baja California, Bayou, California, Carolina, Colorado, Dakota, Great Lakes, Great Plains, New England, Rockies, and Texas maps.
Overview[]
The Renegado is an outlaw unit armed with a rifle. As an outlaw it costs little coin but many population slots (5; 3 with the Theaters or equivalent card). It has fewer hitpoints than a Skirmisher but faster attack.
Renegados are, also like most outlaw units, strongest in the Commerce Age and weaker as the game progresses. While it can reach a high output by the Imperial Age, its frailty and heavy population cost make it generally more efficient to field standard Skirmishers.
Upgrades[]
The Renegado upgrades in the Industrial Age and the Imperial Age when Compunction, Folk Heroes, or Wild West are researched.
- +30% hit points and attack
- +50% hit points and attack
Further statistics[]
Unit strengths and weaknesses | |
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Strong vs. | Heavy infantry, light ranged cavalry, ranged shock infantry |
Weak vs. | Heavy cavalry, hand shock infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery |
Improvements | |
Hit points | Compunction (+20%; Asians only) Folk Heroes (+20%; Europeans only) Wild West (+20%; Native Americans only) Flint Lock (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%) |
Attack | Compunction (+20%; Asians only) Folk Heroes (+20%; Europeans only) Wild West (+20%; Native Americans only) Paper Cartridge (+15%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Armatoloi (+5%) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack) 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) |
Range | Schützenfest (+1) |
Line of Sight | Town Watch (+3) Schützenfest (+1) |
Speed | Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%) |
Train time | Compunction (-50%; Asians only) Folk Heroes (-50%; Europeans only) Wild West (-50%; Native Americans only) Standing Army (-25%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Immigrants (-10%) Philhellenism (-10%) |
Cost | Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost) Philhellenism (-10%) |
Other | Gun Running (Native Embassies can train Renegados; Native Americans only) |
Penalties | Coffee Trade (-10% speed; Dutch only) Thin Red Line (-10% speed; British only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost; Germans only) |
Home City Cards[]
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Renegado
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 |
Blue | Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds) |
All[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Liberation March | Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry get +5% speed and -35% train time | N/A | |
Fencing School | Infantry and shock infantry train time -40% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans) | 10 | |
Outlaw Combat | Upgrades Filibusters to Veteran (if not already); outlaws and mercenaries get +15% hit points and attack; costs 750 coin | N/A | |
Bandit Gang | Ships 20 random outlaws; costs 2,000 coin | 40 |
- "Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.
- "Fencing School" is available to the Aztecs and Europeans (except French, Maltese, Ottomans, and Spanish).
- "Outlaw Combat" is available to Baja California and Mexico.
- "Bandit Gang" is available to the Lakota and Maya.
Asians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Atonement | Iron Troopers/Jat Lancers/Yojimbo can be trained at the Monastery and available one age early; outlaws use -2 population (also +1 Villager for the Indians) | 10 |
Chinese[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Western Reforms | All units get +8% hit points and attack | 40 | |
Acupuncture | All units' train time -20% | 10 |
Dutch[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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TEAM Infantry Hitpoints | Infantry get +10% hit points; Dutch-only infantry get +15% hit points instead | 10 |
Europeans[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Theaters | Upgrades the Tavern to the Theater which can train Ronin; outlaws use -2 population | 1 |
- "Theaters" is not available to the Germans.
French[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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TEAM Senegalese Riflemen | Ranged infantry get +10% attack; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry get +15% attack instead | 10 | |
Royal Fencing School | Infantry and shock infantry train time -40%; +3 Royal Musketeers | N/A |
Germans[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Witch Hammer | Ships 3 Inquisitors; Inquisitors can be trained at Tavern/Mercenary Camps, Town Centers, Church, and Outposts; outlaws use -2 population; +2 Uhlans |
Haudenosaunee[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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TEAM Scout Infantry | Infantry get +8 Line of Sight | 10 | |
Wampum | Training units and constructing buildings grants +35% XP | N/A |
Inca[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Road Building | Land military units get +10% speed | |
Couriers | Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry train time -45% | |
TEAM Inca Bridges | Ships 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villagers, healing units, and Envoys get +5% speed |
Indians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Dravidian Martial Arts | All units get +15% hand attack; Rajputs get +30% hand attack instead; +1 Villager | 40 | |
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics | All units get +5% hit points and attack | 25 | |
Fencing School | Infantry train time -40%; +1 Hindu Villager | 10 | |
Zamindars | Infantry train time -20%; receives 2 Sepoys instead of 1 Villager with every Home City shipment; +2 Sepoys | 1 |
Italians[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Infantry Hitpoints | Infantry get +15% hit points | |
Schiavoni Swords | Infantry and cavalry get +15% hand attack |
Japanese[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Onin War | Infantry get +33% siege attack | 40 | |
TEAM Sengoku | Unit upgrades cost -20% | 1 | |
Bakufu | Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +10% speed, +20 Line of Sight and train units 15% faster; land military units' train time -20%; Banner army train time -10% | 10 |
Lakota[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Moccasins | Infantry get +10% speed | 10 | |
Winter Counts | Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP | N/A | |
Hire Owlhoots | Ships 10 Owlhoots; upgrades Renegados to Owlhoots; costs 500 coin | 25 | |
Outlaw Band | Ships 19 random outlaws; costs 1,000 coin | 10 |
Maltese[]
Card | Description | Age |
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TEAM Knights of the Round Table | Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center owned by the player; all units get +2% hit points | |
Squires | Military buildings train and research work 80% faster, except Forts which train and research work 260% faster |
Mexicans[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Guerrilla Tactics | Rifle infantry get +15% hit points and attack; Salteadores get the Guerrilla Tactics ability | |
TEAM Mariachi | For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed | |
Colegio de San Nicolás | Ships 500 XP; units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds |
- "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
Ottomans[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Matrakci School | Infantry and shock infantry train time -30%; Janissary, Azap, Nizam Fusilier, Abus Gunner, and Humbaraci train time -40% instead |
Portuguese[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints | Gunpowder infantry get +15% hit points | 10 |
Russians[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Ransack | Infantry get +50% siege attack | 25 | |
Dueling School | Infantry train time -25% | 25 |
South Africa[]
Card | Description | Age |
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Wanderlust | Land units get +5% hit points; land villagers and wagons get +5% speed |
Spanish[]
Card | Description | Age | HC level |
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Peninsular Guerrillas | Ranged infantry get +20% attack, musket infantry get +10% attack instead; Skirmishers now see the Line of Sight of enemies they attacked for 3 seconds | N/A | |
TEAM Spanish Inquisition | All units get +10 Line of Sight; +1 Inquisitor | 10 |
Bandit Rifleman[]
The Bandit Rifleman (Outlaw Rifleman before update 38254) is the Treasure guardian variant of the Renegado.
History[]
“ | The term "outlaw" is derived from a Scandinavian designation for the worst sort of criminal imaginable - one who lived outside the protections of the law and should be killed on sight. The gun-slinging, horse-riding, bandana-wearing outlaw of the American frontier is a common image, and one embodied by Thomas Coleman Younger and his two brothers. They joined up with Jesse James and were eventually captured and pardoned, though not before one of Cole's brothers died of tuberculosis while imprisoned and the other killed himself out of grief. Cole was pardoned and lived the rest of his life honestly, making a lecture circuit and performing in a traveling Wild West show. | ” |
Changelog[]
Age of Empires III[]
- Outlaw Riflemen have 20 Line of Sight, 18 ranged attack range, and 25% ranged resistance.
The WarChiefs[]
- Renegados cost 90 coin, take 6 population, have a x2.0 multiplier against heavy infantry, 1.5 melee rate of fire, 40 ranged damage and a 3.0 ranged Rate of Fire.
The Asian Dynasties[]
- With patch 1.01, All Archers and Skirmisher-type units gets ×0.75 ranged multiplier against cavalry and Coyote Runners, and gets ×2.00 ranged multiplier against light cavalry and Eagle Runner Knights.
Definitive Edition[]
- Outlaw Riflemen have 17 Line of Sight and 15 ranged attack range.
- All Archers and Skirmisher-type units gets ×0.75 ranged multiplier against cavalry and hand shock infantry, and gets ×2.00 ranged multiplier against light cavalry and ranged shock infantry.
- With update 23511, Renegados cost 100 coin, take 5 population, have a x1.75 multiplier against heavy infantry, 2.0 melee rate of fire, 18 ranged damage, 2.0 ranged rate of fire, are tagged as Rifle infantry and outlaw and can be trained by Native Americans in the Fortress Age at Native Embassies.
The African Royals[]
- With update 38254, the Outlaw Rifleman was renamed to Bandit Rifleman.
- With update 50830, Renegados take 4 population and have 20 ranged damage.
Knights of the Mediterranean[]
- With update 13.9057, the Renegado is tagged as Light Infantry.
- With update 13.12327, Renegados require Gun Running to be trained by Native Americans in the Commerce Age at Native Embassies.
- With update 13.27885 Renegados have 30% ranged resistance, and 2x ranged attack multiplier against heavy infantry.
- With update 13.58326, Renegados have a ×0.6 ranged multiplier vs. cavalry and ×0.5 shock infantry, ×2.5 against light cavalry and ranged shock infantry.
In-game dialogue[]
Before update 23511[]
The Renegado, as well as Comanchero and Pistolero, speak in Western American English using "Saloon unit" dialogue files, which were used by Sheriff Billy Holme before the Definitive Edition with the pitch raised slightly, while the Outlaw Rifleman and Chinaco speak Spanish using the Spanish Mortar's dialogue files and Hajduk his nation's Mortar's dialogues.
- Select 1 Yeah?
- Select 2 I'm ready
- Select 3 Whatcha need?
- Move 1 Sure thing
- Move 2 Alright
- Move 3 Okay
- Attack 1 You got it!
- Attack 2 I'll get 'em!
- Attack 3 Right
After update 23511[]
After update 23511 and introduction of the United States major civilization the Renegado speaks Spanish using the Spanish Mortar's dialogue files. The exception for this is the United States's units (both major and scenario) that speak in Western American English using Sheriff Billy Holme's dialogue files from the Definitive Edition.
The Outlaw Rifleman (Bandit Rifleman after update 38254) and Chinaco continue to use Spanish Mortar's dialogue files and Hajduk his nation's Mortar's dialogues.
Trivia[]
- Mexican Renegados are named after the chinacos, insurgents made up of ranchers who fought against the Spanish during the Mexican War of Independence.
- Hungarian/Romanian Renegados are named after the hajduks, known for being both freedom fighters and outlaws.
- Renegados are armed with what appears to be Winchester Repeating Rifles. The 1873 Winchester was famously known as "The Gun That Won the West".
- The specific appearance of the Renegado's rilfe is anachronistic, as Act II: Shadow for The WarChiefs is set in 1876, yet the rifle's appearance is based upon the 1894 Winchester, which has a smaller iron band present on the forward handle. In contrast, the more accurate 1873 has the band located in front of the forward handle.
History[]
“ | The broad expanses of the North American Old West offered many different opportunities to make one's fortune – either within the boundaries of the law, or by simply preying on others who had already done so. Anyone known as a rengado - Spanish for "renegade" - was almost certainly a gruff and surly individual who had little use for society's traditions or laws. Mark Twain's "A Horse's Tale" mentions one such character, "Trap-robber, horse-thief, squaw-man, renegado - Hank Butters - I know him very well." | ” |
Gallery[]
See also[]
- Owlhoot – United States counterpart
- Bandido – Mexican counterpart