Royal Huntsman

Royal Huntsman
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Villager Counter-skirmisher Ranged infantry Gunpowder infantry Rifle infantry Native warrior
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Trading Post or Tambo on a House of Oldenburg palace Native Embassy
Cost	140 Food 1 Population
Train time	30 seconds
Train limit	7 per House of Oldenburg palace
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resistance	30% Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	14
Ability	Gather food from huntables
XP train bounty	14
XP kill bounty	14
Ranged attack
Damage	10 Ranged
Range	2–12 0–12 (against huntable)
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	×4.0 vs. Huntable ×1.5 vs. Light infantry and counter-skirmishers ×0.6 vs. Heavy cavalry and hand shock infantry
Siege attack
Damage	5 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	×0.75 vs. Heavy cavalry and hand shock infantry

“	Danish Counter Skirmisher and Villager that can only hunt and gather from huntable animals.	”
—Royal Huntsman in-game description

The Royal Huntsman is a ranged infantry villager native warrior in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that can be trained at a Trading Post built on a House of Oldenburg palace.

Overview

The Royal Huntsman is a ranged infantry unit that also fulfills the role of a villager. It is effective against Skirmishers and other light infantry units, but vulnerable against cavalry and artillery.

Royal Huntsmen perform the role of improved Settlers, as they have higher ranged attack, range resistance, and slightly higher speed, but an increased food cost, no multipliers against artillery, have a build limit and slower training time. Royal Huntsmen only gather food from huntables, which also contributes to the players' early economy, and since they are tagged as villagers, upgrades like Blunderbuss and Hunting Dogs will benefit their attack and gather rate, respectively. Additionally, they have a ranged attack with bonus damage against light infantry units, such as foot archers and Skirmishers. However, their low damage, build limit, and hit points makes them unsuited to handle large groups of units, and they will be especially weak against Oprichniks, since they have a multiplier against villagers.

Royal Hunter

Royal Hunter
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Counter-skirmisher Ranged infantry Gunpowder infantry Rifle infantry Native warrior Affected by villager upgrades
Age	Commerce Age
Requires	League of Armed Neutrality
Training
Trained at	Trading Post or Tambo on a House of Oldenburg palace Native Embassy
Cost	140 Food
Train time	30 seconds
Train limit	14 per House of Oldenburg palace
Statistics
Hit points	150
Resistance	30% Ranged
Speed	4.0
Line of Sight	21
XP train bounty	14
XP kill bounty	14
Ranged attack
Damage	14 Ranged
Range	2-19
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	×1.5 vs. Light infantry and counter-skirmishers ×0.6 vs. Heavy cavalry and hand shock infantry
Siege attack
Damage	10 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Hand attack
Damage	10 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	×1.5 vs. Light infantry and counter-skirmishers ×0.75 vs. Heavy cavalry and hand shock infantry

“	Danish Skirmisher that excels at countering other Skirmishers. Benefits from Villager combat upgrades.	”
—Royal Hunter in-game description

Royal Huntsmen can become Royal Hunters after researching the League of Armed Neutrality technology. Royal Hunters move slightly slower and can no longer gather food from huntables, but they do not take population space, get hand damage multipliers, increase their ranged damage, Line of Sight, maximum range, and build limit, and since Royal Hunters are no longer considered villagers, they will not take additional damage from Oprichniks, but are still vulnerable against cavalry and artillery.

In both forms, however, they gain the benefit of Market upgrades and Home City Cards that benefit villagers. As villagers are normally not expected to engage in combat, these upgrades generally provide very large bonuses to their combat stats, which would normally not justify sending them into combat. Royal Hunters, however, will instead enjoy significant boosts to their combat capabilities due to their much better pre-existing combat stats. This is especially notable after sending the Native American Warrior Culture card, which will give Royal Hunters damage similar to heavy infantry.

They do not benefit from all villager upgrades; notably, they are unaffected by either the "Catrachos" card that can be sent by Central America, or by the Canadian Revolution.

The Germans can train Royal Hunters from the Royal Embassy after sending the "Prince-Electors" Home City Card and choosing the House of Oldenburg as ally, also allowing them to train Northern Musketeers. The Royal Hunters use 2 population spaces and can be upgraded to Veteran and Royal Guard level. Despite Royal Hunters not being villagers anymore, they cannot be trained in batches (Possibly a bug, since they are differentiated from each other in-game as they have separate unit IDs.)

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Veteran Oldenburgs	125 wood 125 coin	Upgrades Royal Huntsmen/Royal Hunters to Veteran (+20% hit points and damage)
	Royal Guard Oldenburgs	350 wood 350 coin	Upgrades Royal Huntsmen/Royal Hunters and Northern Musketeers to Royal Guard (+40% hit points and damage); requires Veteran Oldenburgs
	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food 1,500 wood	Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted/Imperial (+50% hit points and damage)

The Legendary Native Warriors improvement is available in the Capitol for European civilizations and the Mexicans, in the State Capitol for the United States, and in the Town Center for African, Asian (as Exalted Natives), and Native American civilizations.

Further statistics

• Royal Huntsman / Royal Hunter
• Royal Huntsman only

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Light infantry, heavy infantry, counter-skirmishers
Weak vs.	Heavy cavalry, hand shock infantry, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Flint Lock (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Counter Infantry Rifling (+1.0× multiplier vs. light infantry) Paper Cartridge (+15%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack) Somali Jile Daggers (-35% hand attack ROF) Armatoloi (+5%) Kalthoff Repeaters (+0.5× multiplier vs. light infantry)
Resistance	Hualcana (+5%; Inca only) Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Apache Endurance (+5%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Train time	Standing Army (-25%) Immigrants (-10%) New Mexico Immigration (-10%; United States only) Strangers' Quarters (-10%; Africans only) Cree Kinship (-45%) Quechuan Diet (-15%) Akan Fontomfrom (-25%) Philhellenism (-10%)
Cost	Philhellenism (-10%)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost) League of Armed Neutrality (replace Royal Huntsmen with Royal Hunters; -1 population; +7 build limit; +5 ranged and siege attack; +7 range and LOS) Yoruba Herbalism (regenerate 1 hit point per second nearby a tree or Berry Bush)
Penalties	Coffee Trade (-10% speed; Dutch only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost; Germans only) League of Armed Neutrality (Royal Hunters can no longer gather food from huntables; -0.5 speed)

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Light infantry, heavy infantry, counter-skirmishers
Weak vs.	Cavalry, especially Oprichniks, counter-skirmishers, artillery
Improvements
Gathering speed	Code Napoleon (+10%; French only) Civil Servants (+5%; Asians only) Imperial Bureaucracy (+10%; Asians only) Hunting Dogs (+10% from huntable animals; Europeans, Native Americans, United States and Mexicans only) Steel Traps (+20% from huntable animals; Europeans, United States and Mexicans only) Great Feast (+10%; Native Americans only) Harvest Ceremony (+15%; Native Americans only) Green Corn Ceremony (+20%; Native Americans only) Large Scale Gathering (+50%; Native Americans only) Hunting Eagles (+5% from huntable animals; Chinese and Indians only) Professional Hunters (+10% from huntable animals; Chinese and Indians only) Village Dogs (+5%; Africans only) Snares (+10%; Africans only) Maya Calendar (+10%) Zapotec Food of the Gods (+10%)
Hit points	Great Coat (+35%; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+35%; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+35%; Asians only) Frontiersmen (+35%; United States and Mexicans only) Berber Kings of the Desert (+35%) Tribal Societies (+20%)
Attack	Blunderbuss (+3; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+3; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+3; Asians only) Chouannerie (+1.0× multiplier vs. infantry)
Range	Blunderbuss (+4; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+4; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+4; Asians only) Frontiersmen (+6; United States and Mexicans only) Royal Hunters (+4; Africans only)
Line of Sight	Blunderbuss (+4; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+4; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+4; Asians only) Frontiersmen (+6; United States and Mexicans only) Royal Hunters (+8; Africans only)
Speed	Tribal Societies (+10%)
Train time	Christian Schools (-15%)
Other	Hunting Expeditions (gather 0.1 coin while gathering from huntable animals) Gerewol Festival (exchanges train bounty from experience to influence; Hausa only)
Penalties	Encomienda Manor (-5% gather rate from anything, but Mills; Portuguese only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Royal Huntsman/Royal Hunter

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)

All

Card	Description	Age
Alpaca Wool	Villagers get +50% hit points and +30% resistance; units affected by villager upgrades get +15% hit points and +10% resistance
Native Alliance	Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Villager for the Indians)
Native Treaties	Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors
Native Warriors	Native warriors cost 25% less resources
Native Warrior Combat	Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack
TEAM Native Weapon Trade	Native warrior train limit +20%
Blood Brothers	Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined/Veteran and Champion/Honored/Royal Guard (if not already); Native Embassies get +40% hit points and +5 build limit (also +4 Uhlans for the Germans)
Pioneers	Villagers get +65% hit points; units affected by villager upgrades get +20% hit points (also +1 Villager for the Indians)
Warrior Culture	Villagers get +20 attack, and now attack enemies automatically; units affected by villager upgrades get +3 attack
Fencing School	Infantry and Shock Infantry train time -40% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and Shock Infantry get +5% speed and -35% train time
Refrigeration	Villagers gather food 20% faster
Furrier	Villagers gather from huntable animals 15% faster and gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 20% faster; huntable animals have gather yield increased by 8%, berry bushes gather yield +10%
TEAM Furrier	Villagers gather from huntable animals 10% faster and gather from Berry Bushes, Blueberry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 15% faster, plus 5% gather yield from hunted animals and Cherry Orchards, 8% from Berry and Blueberry Bushes
Spice Trade	Vilagers gather from huntable animals, Berry Bushes, Blueberry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 20% faster and plus 10% gather yield from hunted animals and Berry and Blueberry Bushes; huntable animals, Berry Bushes, and Cherry Orchards last 10% longer
TEAM Spice Trade	Villagers gather from huntable animals 10% faster and gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 15% faster; Huntable animals last 5% longer; Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards last 7.5% longer
Medicine	Villager train time and cost -15%
TEAM Medicine	Villager train time -15%

• "Alpaca Wool" is available to the Inca, and also Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.
• "Native Alliance" is available to the Aztecs, Inca, Indians, and Japanese.
• "Native Treaties" is available to Europeans (except the Maltese), Federal Americans, and Native Americans, and ships 2 Royal Hunters if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Oldenburg palace.
• "Native Warriors" is available to Europeans and Native Americans (except the Haudenosaunee).
• "Native Warrior Combat" is available to the French, Haudenosaunee, Inca, and Mexicans (upon revolting to Maya).
• "Blood Brothers" is available to the Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Inca, Lakota, Mexicans, Portuguese, Russians, Spanish, and United States.
• "TEAM Native Weapon Trade" is available to the Dutch, Native Americans (except the Inca), and also British and French upon revolting to Canada.
• "Pioneers" is not available to the Ethiopians, Inca, Italians and Japanese.
• "Warrior Culture" is available to the Mexicans (upon revolting to the Maya) and Native Americans (except the Inca).
• "Fencing School" is available to the Aztecs, Europeans (except to the French, Maltese, Ottomans and Spanish) and the Indians.
• "Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.
• "Refrigeration" is not available to the Aztecs, Ethiopians, Haudenosaunee, Hausa, Inca and Indians.
• "Furrier" is not available to the British, Dutch, Japanese and Russians
• "TEAM Furrier" is available to the Haudenosaunee and Russians.
• "Spice Trade" is not available to the Aztecs, Ethiopians, Haudenosaunee, Inca, Japanese and Lakota.
• "TEAM Spice Trade" is available to the Dutch and Lakota.
• "Medicine" card is not available to the Chinese, French, Hausa, Indians, Japanese, Mexicans and Ottomans.
• "TEAM Medicine" card is available to the Aztecs, Haudenosaunee, Inca and Indians.

Africans

Card	Description	Age
Feudal Armies	All units' train time -15%; hero respawn time -15%
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15% (also affects shipments)

Asians

Card	Description	Age
Native Warrior Hitpoints	Native warriors get +30% hit points and +10% speed (also +1 Hindu Villager for the Indians)
Native Warrior Attack	Native warriors get +30% attack and -25% train time

• "Native Warrior Hitpoints" is not available to the Japanese.
• "Native Warrior Attack" is not available to the Indians.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Ships 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villagers, healing units, Envoys, and Disciples get +5% speed
Western Reforms	All units get +8% hit points and attack
Acupuncture	All units' train time -20%

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	The player's infantry get +15% hit points; allied infantry get +10% hit points

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry get +5% speed
Temenyas	Gunpowder infantry get +5% attack; Neftenya available in the Commerce Age
Shiftas	Villagers get +35% hit points; outlaws get +15% hit points and take -1 population; units affected by villager upgrades get +10% hit points
Ignatian Spirituality	All units get +5% hit points and regeneration capability even while in combat
Roof of Africa	All food gathering (but not Trade Routes, Factories, shipments, and trickles) is 25% faster
Iyasu Reforms	Villagers gather resources 15% faster
Beekepers	Villagers gather food from huntable animals, Berry Bushes, Cherry Orchards, and Fields 15% faster

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Economic Theory	Villagers and Fishing Boats gather 10% faster
Loyal Warriors	Native warriors, mercenaries, and outlaws cost -15%; "TEAM 4 Zenata Rider", "Recruit Xebec", "Recruit Xebecs", and "15 Berber Allies" cost no coin
Great Buffalo Hunt	Ships 10 Bison; Villagers gather food from huntable animals 10% faster
Hudson Bay Company	Ships 12 Deer; Villagers gain a trickle of 0.15 coin/sec while gathering from huntable and herdable animals, and 0.015 coin/sec while gathering from other resources
Legendary Native Warriors	Grants Legendary Native Warriors
Sevites	Maroons, native warriors, and Villagers now regenerate hit points at a rate of 0.25% per second when idle; Yoruba Eso Rider hit point degeneration rate -60% and Militiaman hit point degeneration rate -10%, and for both stops at 25% hit points
Louverture Liberation	Ships 6 Citizens and allows them to be trained at the Town Centers for 70 coin; allows Fishing Boats to be trained at the Dock; native warriors get +20% hit points and +5% speed
Wanderlust	Land units get +5% hit points; land villagers and wagons get +5% speed

• "Economic Theory" is not available to the British and Dutch.
• "Loyal Warriors" is available to the Italians, Maltese, Ottomans, and Portuguese upon revolting to the Barbary States.
• "Great Buffalo Hunt" and "Hudson Bay Company" are available to the British and the French upon revolting to Canada.
• "Legendary Native Warriors" is available to the Dutch, Italians, and Portuguese upon revolting to Brazil.
• "Sevites" and "Louverture Liberation" are available to the British and French upon revolting to Haiti.
• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and the Dutch upon revolting to South Africa, and can be sent 3 times.

Federal Americans

Card	Description	Age
Indian Friendship/Chimayo Genizarios	Each different allied native tribe sends a large shipment of their respective native warriors; Native warrior train time -10%; Native warrior shipments arrive twice as fast; costs 500 food, 500 wood

• "Indian Friendship" is available to United States and "Chimayo Genizarios" to the Mexicans.
• "Indian Friendship"/"Chimayo Genizarios" ships 2 Royal Huntsmen, researches League of Armed Neutrality (turning Royal Huntsmen into Royal Hunters), and upgrades them to Royal Guard (if not already), if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Oldenburg palace.

French

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry get +15% attack
Wilderness Warfare	Coureurs des Bois, Cree Coureurs des Bois, native warriors, Skirmishers, and Settlers get +20% hit points
TEAM French Auxiliaries Combat	Native warriors get +10% hit points and damage
Royal Fencing School	Infantry and Shock infantry train time -40%; +3 Royal Musketeers
Cult of the Supreme Being	The player gains +10% XP from training units and other players receive -10% XP from defeating them. Sansculottes gather resources from Crates 50% faster; food from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 25% faster; wood from Trees and Mango Groves and coin from Mines 20% faster; food from Huntable animals, Livestock, Mills, Farms and coin from Estates 15% faster
Sister Republics	Receive 15 random random European native units; costs 1,500 food

• "Cult of the Supreme Being" and "Sister Republics" are available upon revolting to Revolutionary France.
• "Sister Republics" ships European native units from all Royal Houses, excepting the House of Jagiellon, House of Phanar, and House of Vasa.

Germans

Card	Description	Age
Prince-Electors	Ships 1 Royal Embassy Wagon; Choose any one German Royal House as an ally that will allow you to recruit and upgrade units at the Royal Embassy. Allied units will now cost population in the Royal Embassy and Home City. Removed cost for Royal Houses alliances

• "Prince-Electors" enables Royal Hunters, Northern Musketeers, Veteran Oldenburgs and Royal Guard Oldenburgs at the Royal Embassy, if the player chooses to ally with the House of Oldenburg

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 LOS; +1 Native Scout
Conservative Tactics	Infantry get +10% hit points and damage
Native Warrior Conscription	Native warrior cost -25% and train limit +20%
Wampum	Training units and constructing buildings grants +35% XP; unit train time -20%, siege unit and artillery train time -5% instead

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
Dambe Wrestling	Villagers get +50% hit points and -33% hand attack Rate of Fire, but their ranged attack now have a minimum range of 8; units affected by villager upgrades get +15% hit points and -33% hand attack Rate of Fire
Suya Skewers	Villagers from huntable animals and livestock 35% faster; huntable animals and livestock lasts 15% longer
Pulaaku Code	Villagers gather 15% faster from natural resources and 5% faster from anything else
Sahelian Kingdoms	Native warriors get +15% hit points and damage; Mercenaries and outlaws get +10% hit points and damage

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military units get +10% speed
Couriers	Infantry, shock infantry and cavalry train time -45%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Infantry, Villagers, Healing units, and Envoys get +5% speed;; +1 Chasqui
Salt Ponds	Villagers gather resources from animals 20% faster; Fishing Boats and Chincha Rafts gather from fishes and whales 20% faster

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	All units get +15% hand attack; Rajputs get +20% hand attack; +1 Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and attack
Zamindars	Infantry train time -20%; receives 2 Sepoys instead of 1 Villager with every Home City shipment; +2 Sepoys

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry get +15% hit points
Schiavoni Swords	All cavalry and infantry get +15% hand attack
Florentine Football	Settlers get +40% hit points and hand attack, and +25% speed; units affected by villager upgrades get +10% hit points and hand attack, and +5% speed

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
Onin War	Infantry get +33% siege attack
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +10% speed, +20 LOS and train units 15% faster; Banner army train time -10%; Land military unit train time -20%
TEAM Jujutsu	Villagers get +35% hit points; Surgeons, Priests, Architects, Native Scouts, and Envoys get +20% attack; Disciples and Shaolin Masters get +10% attack; units affected by villager upgrades get +10% hit points

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Moccasins	Infantry get +10% speed
Black Arrow	Native warrior train time -85%
Winter Counts	Training units grants +40% XP and constructing buildings grants +20% XP
Great Hunter	Villagers gather from huntable animals 20% faster, and adds 10% of all food collected from hunted animals so far to the player's stockpile (up to 1,500 food)
Adoption	Villagers get -25% train time and grant +250% XP train bounty; units affected by villager upgrades get -10% train time

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
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 rate +80%, except Forts which get train and research work rate +340%
Wignacourt Constructions	Villagers gather natural resources 10% faster, and an additional 20% faster when nearby a Town Center, Outpost, or Commandery

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Guerrilla Tactics	Rifle infantry get +15% hit points and damage; Salteadores get the Guerrilla Tactics ability
Plan of Miramare	[Plan] Turns all Salteadores into Voltigeur Skirmishers; Rifle infantry get +2 LOS and range; costs 1,000 food, 1,000 wood.
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 and buildings get +8 LOS; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
Sonora Valleys	Villagers gather from livestock and natural resources 25% faster
National Servant	All units get +10% hit points; Padre healing speed increased by 200%
Bastimento	Infantry train time -25%; Revolutionary train time -50%; Villager train time -20%
Pok Ta Pok	Infantry get +10% speed and -10% train time

• "Guerrilla Tactics" is also available upon revolting to Yucatán.
• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Sonora Valleys" is available upon selecting the Sonora Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Bastimento" is available upon revolting to Rio Grande.
• "Pok Ta Pok" is available upon revolting to the Maya.

Native Americans

Card	Description	Age
North America Trade	Villagers gain trickle of 0.15 coin/sec while gathering from huntable and herdable animals, and 0.015 coin/sec while gathering from other resources

• "North America Trade" is available to the Haudenosaunee and Lakota.

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
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
TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints	Gunpowder Infantry get +15% hit points

Russians

Card	Description	Age
Ransack	Infantry get +50% siege attack
Dueling School	Infantry train time -25%
12 Oldenburg Allies	Ships 12 Royal Hunters and upgrades them to Royal Guard level; costs 1,000 coin

• "Mercenary Loyalty" reduces cost of "12 Oldenburg Allies" by 10%.

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
Marvelous Year	Villager train time -33.3% and gather rate +20% for 365 seconds
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
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	All units get +10 LOS; +1 Inquisitor

United States

Card	Description	Age
Continental Rangers	Rifle infantry get +15% hit points and damage
French Immigrants	[Immigrant] Ships 3 Coureur des Bois; villagers get +35% hit points, +100% ranged attack, +0.5 speed, and now resist ranged attacks; units affected by villager upgrades get +10% hit points and speed; costs 225 wood
Russian-American Company	[Immigrant] Ships 2 Blockhouse Wagons wich can construct Frontier Blockhouses; Villagers gather food from huntable animals 30% faster
Indiana Mobilization	Ships an additional Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game including this one; all units and technologies including Age advancements train and research 10% faster; costs 250 food, 250 wood
Overmountain Settlers	Ships 4 Settlers; villagers get +12 ranged attack and natural resources yield 25% more resources

• "Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting the Indiana Federal State.
• "Overmountain Settlers" is available upon selecting the Tennessee Federal State.

Changelog

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.18214, Royal Huntsmen are no longer able to gather wood after sending the "Sawmills" Home City Card.
• With update 15.30007, Royal Hunter ranged damage changed from 15 to 14.

In-game dialogue

The Royal Huntsman speaks Danish.

• Select 1 Hvad er mine mål? - What are my targets?
• Select 2 Deres Majestæt? - Your Majesty
• Select 3 Ja? - Yes?
• Move 1 Det vil blive gjort - It will be done
• Move 2 Som De ønsker - As you wish ('De' is an archaic formal form of 'du')
• Move3 1 Jeg er på vej - I am on the way
• Attack 1 Ja! - Yes!
• Attack 2 Angrib! - Attack!
• Attack 3 For Kongen! - For the King!

History

“	The House of Oldenburg ruled parts of northern Germany, Denmark, and the surrounding regions from the medieval period through the 20th century. During the early modern period, this faction's territories were generally northerly ones with a long tradition of hunting – which made many of its people deadly accurate with a firearm, and thus effective both in the hunt and in battle.	”
—In-game compendium section

Trivia

• The Royal Huntsman is based on the Danish Royal Life Guards, particularly their 1702 uniform.
• Contrary to the in-game description for the Royal Hunter, it is not considered a Skirmisher, due to not being tagged as light infantry.

Gallery

Royal Hunter image from the Compendium section

An in-game Royal Huntsman

An in-game Royal Hunter