Roger's Rangers

Roger's Rangers
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Civilization	British
Age	Commerce Age*
Research
Researched at	Church
Required Home City Card	The Glorious Revolution
Required for	Queen's Rangers
Food	800
Coin	0
Research time	15 seconds
Effect
Ships 5 Rangers Turns the current Longbowmen into Rangers

“	Ships 5 powerful Rangers and replaces your current Longbowmen with them, too.	”
—In-game description

Roger's Rangers is a technology in Age of Empires III that is unique to the British and can be researched at the Church once the Commerce Age is reached and the The Glorious Revolution Home City Card has been sent. Once researched, it ships 5 Rangers and turns the current Longbowmen into them. Queen's Rangers is the further upgrade of this technology.

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Roger's Rangers costs 2,000 coin, ships 26 Roger's Rangers (Guard Skirmishers), is available from the Industrial Age, and the in-game description is "Ships 26 Roger's Rangers (Skirmishers) from the frontier."

The African Royals

• With update 13.690, Roger's Rangers can be researched twice, with the first research in the Commerce Age, which costs 800 food and ships 5 Rangers, turns the current Longbowmen into them and Home City Cards that ship Longbowmen now ship Rangers instead, and the in-game description is "Ships 5 Ranger and replaces your current Longbowman with them. Longbowman shipments now also give Ranger instead."

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.12327, the Roger's Rangers icon has been updated, no longer can be researched twice, the effects of the second research turned into the Queen's Rangers technology, which is now its further upgrade, and the in-game description is "Ships 5 powerful Rangers and replaces your current Longbowmen with them, too. Longbowmen shipments now grant Rangers instead."
• With update 13.27885, researching Roger's Rangers no longer replaces Longbowmen from shipments with Rangers, does not replace the "Yeomen" and "Siege Archery" Home City Cards with "Baker Rifles" and "Ranger Combat", respectively, and the in-game description is "Ships 5 powerful Rangers and replaces your current Longbowmen with them, too."

Trivia

• The British Brigade, available for the Chinese and the Indians in The Asian Dynasties through the Consulate by allying with the British, includes 16 Rangers (Skirmishers before update 14.43676) named Roger's Rangers.