Sansculotte

Sansculotte
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Infantry Ranged infantry Gunpowder trooper Land military Affected by villager upgrades
Civilization(s)	Revolutionary France
Training
Trained at	Town Center
Cost	100 Food 1 Population
Train time	19.6 seconds
Train limit	80
Statistics
Hit points	135
Resistance	40% Ranged
Speed	4.75
Line of Sight	14
Ability	Gathers resources Builds buildings Claims treasures
Train XP	8
Kill XP	8
Ranged attack
Damage	20 Ranged
Range	2-12
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	2.0x vs. Hunted animals 2.0x vs. Pet 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry* 2.0x vs. Artillery 0.25x vs. Villager
Siege attack
Damage	32 Siege
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Resource enclosure 1.5x Defensive building
Hand attack
Damage	14 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	2.0x vs. Pet 2.0x vs. Heavy infantry* 2.0x vs. Artillery

“	Revolutionary villager that is better at fighting than gathering resources.	”
—In-game description

The Sansculotte is a variant of the Coureur des Bois unique to Revolutionary France with the following differences:

• Can be trained in blocks of 5.
• Costs reduced by 16% and train time by 30% (100 food and 19.6 sec.).
• Building rate reduced by 33% (0.8/sec.)
• Gather rates are reduced:
  • 1.5 food per second from herded animals
  • 0.7 food per second from hunted animals
  • 0.6 food per second from Berry Bushes
  • 0.5 food per second from Mills and Cherry Orchards
  • 0.5 wood per second from trees
  • 0.66 coin per second from mines
  • 0.4 coin per second from Estates
• Since the Sansculotte doesn't have a villager tag, they can't receive gather rate improvements other than from their specific cards. However, they benefit from improvements such as Great Coat and Blunderbuss.
• Has -25% hit points (135), increased damage, a 2.0x multiplier against heavy infantry* and 1.5x bonus damage against defensive buildings.

Further statistics

As Sansculottes are unique to Revolutionary France, only technologies that the French have access to are shown in the following table:

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Pets, infantry, artillery, defensive buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, shock infantry
Improvements
Hit points	Nootka Bark Clothing (+15%) Flint Lock (+10%) Great Coat (+10%) Apache Cactus Use (+5%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Blunderbuss (+2) Paper Cartridge (+15%) Smokeless Powder (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Armatoloi (+5%) Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack) Chouannerie (+0.66 multiplier against infantry)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Apache Cactus Use (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3) Blunderbuss (+1)
Range	Blunderbuss (+1)
Train time	Standing Army (-25%) Akan Fontomfrom (-20%) Quechuan Diet (-15%)

Home City Cards

As Sansculottes are unique to Revolutionary France, only the French and Revolutionary French cards, and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables (for the French, non-TEAM cards will only be applied if they are sent before revolting):

Click for a list of cards related to the Sansculotte

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

Shared

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen	Ranged infantry damage +10%; French and Hausa-only ranged infantry damage +15% instead

• "TEAM Senegalese Riflemen" is available to the French and Hausa.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%

• "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Coffee Consumption	Ranged infantry speed +5%

French

Card	Description	Age
Northwest Passage	Coureur des Bois and Cree Coureur des Bois speed +20% (Sanscullotte speed +5% instead) and bonus damage against treasure guardian +3.0
Wilderness Warfare	Coureur des Bois, Cree Coureur des Bois, native warrior, Skirmisher, and Settler hit points +20%
Pioneers	Villager hit points +65%; unit affected by villager upgrades hit points +20%
Royal Fencing School	Delivers 3 Royal Musketeers; infantry and shock infantry train time -40%
Cantinières	Field Hospital built limit +4, auto gather 0.67 food/s; Sansculotte gather work rate for Berry Bush +30%, for hunted animals +25%, for herded animals and Cherry Orchard +20%, for Mill and Farm +15%
Guillotine	Grants 10 wood, 10 coin for each economic unit lost so far; Sansculotte ranged attack bonus damage against hero 2.0x
Reign of Robespierre	Grants 115 XP from defeating enemy units; Sansculottes frighten enemy soldiers and reduce the damage of nearby enemies by 5% (the Frighten aura does not stack)
Cult of the Supreme Being	Unit train bounty +10%, kill bounty -10%; Sansculotte gather work rate for crates +50%, Berry Bush and Cherry Orchard +25%, tree, Mango Grove, mine +20%, huntable animals, herded animals, Mill, Farm, and Estate +15%
Storming of the Bastille	Sansculotte siege attack damage +20%, siege resistance +10%
Napoleonic Warfare	Grants 120 XP for defeating enemy units; Sansculotte train bounty -20%
Grande Armée	Enables Imperial upgrades for military units to be researched at -50% cost; Sansculotte cost +25%

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8

Inca

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%

• "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.

Indians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Italians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Marco Polo Voyages	Explores the entire map and grants +25% future treasure rewards; villager speed +15%, Coureur des Bois and Sansculotte speed +5% instead

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Jujutsu	Villager hit points +35%; unit affected by villager upgrades hit points +10%; Surgeon, Priest, Architect, Native Scout, and Envoy damage +20%; Disciple and Shaolin Master damage +10%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%

Portuguese

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

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Changelog

Knights of the Mediterranean

• Originally, Sansculottes gather 0.4 wood per second from trees and 0.5 coin per second from mines. With update 13.38085, they gather 0.5 wood per second from trees and 0.66 coin per second from mines.
• With update 14.43676, Sansculotte multipliers vs. infantry were changed to counter heavy infantry instead.
• With patch 15.30007, Sansculotte cost changed from 90 food to 100, and they benefit less from the Northwest Passage and TEAM Marco Polo Voyages cards.
• Originally, Sansculottes train in 16.8 seconds. With patch 15.59076, they train in 19.6 seconds.

Gallery

In-game Sansculottes