"Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a slight bonus versus cavalry at range and a large bonus versus cavalry at melee."
—In-game description
The Sepoy is a heavy infantry in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that is unique to the Indians and can be trained at Barracks and Galleon, as well as the Agra Fort wonder. It is the Indian equivalent of a Musketeer that is especially effective against cavalry.
Overview 
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The Sepoy provides a more expensive but also more powerful replacement to the regular Musketeer for the Indians, with more hit points and attack. The Sepoy is good against melee cavalry due to its melee multipliers, good against melee infantry due to its powerful ranged attack, and good against ranged cavalry due to its powerful ranged attack and melee multipliers (if it can get close enough). While they are not so good against light infantry, they also have multipliers against them. In total, Sepoys are powerful units that can be the backbone of an army.
Compared to the common Musketeer, the Sepoy costs more and is stronger, it costs more food but less gold when compared with Ashigaru Musketeer and is also stronger, and more gold but less food when compared to the Janissary and have less hit points but more attack. Sepoys can defeat each one of them (though it depends upon who attacks first in the case of Janissary).
Sepoys are powerful and are the backbone units of the Indians. Using the Battlefield Constructions Home City Card, Sepoys can even build military buildings like Barracks, Caravanserai, and Castles. This is their most useful feature.
Upgrades Edit
| Age | Improvement | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 |  | 200 wood, 100 coin | Upgrades Sepoys to Disciplined (+20% hit points and attack) |
 |  | 600 wood, 600 coin | Upgrades Sepoys to Honored (+30% hit points and attack); requires Disciplined Sepoy |
 |  | 1,500 wood, 1,500 coin | Upgrades Sepoys to Exalted (+50% hit points and attack); requires Honored Sepoy |
Mansabdar Sepoy Edit
"Inspires all nearby Sepoys. Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a slight bonus against cavalry at range and a large bonus against cavalry at melee."
—In-game description
The Mansabdar Sepoy is a stronger version of the Sepoy that can be trained from the Charminar Gate wonder. As a Mansabdar unit, the Mansabdar Sepoy has twice the hit points of a Sepoy and the Imperial Service ability that increases the hit points and attack of nearby Sepoys, but are two times more expensive.
Abilities Edit
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
 | The Mansabdar Sepoy increases the hit points and attack of Sepoys in a radius of 24 around him by 10% |
Further statistics Edit
As the (Mansabdar) Sepoy can only be trained by the Indians, only improvements available to them (including native improvements) are listed here.
| Unit strengths and weaknesses | |
|---|---|
| Strong vs. | Cavalry, light infantry, heavy infantry |
| Weak vs. | Skirmishers, archers, artillery |
| Improvements | |
| Hit points |  Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%)
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| Attack |  Yoga (+5%) Smokeless Powder (+30% siege attack) Clenched Fist (+30% melee attack)
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| Speed |  Incan Road-building (+20%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
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| Creation speed |  Incan Chasquis Messengers (-25%)
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| Train cost |  Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
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| Other |  Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
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Home City Cards Edit
As the (Mansabdar) Sepoy is exclusive to the Indians, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.
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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team British
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| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Musketeers, Grenadiers, Sepoys, and Ashigaru Musketeers get +15% hit points |  | 10 |
Dutch Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Infantry gets +15% hit points | | 10 |
French Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ranged infantry gets +15% attack |  | 10 |
Indians Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ships 5 Sepoys +1 Villager | | 1 |
 | Ships 12 Sepoys +1 Villager |  | 1 |
 | Ships 9 Sepoys +1 Villager | | 10 |
 | Ships 14 Sepoys +1 Villager | | 10 |
 | All units get +15% melee attack +1 Villager | | 40 |
 | All units get +5% hit points and attack | | 25 |
 | Receives 2 Sepoys instead of 1 Villager with every Home City shipment, including this one | | 1 |
 | Sepoys, Gurkhas, and Sowars get +10% hit points and attack +1 Villager | | 25 |
 | Sepoys can build Barracks, Caravanserai, and Castles +1 Villager | | 25 |
Iroquois Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Infantry gets +8 LOS | | 10 |
Japanese Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Unit upgrades cost -20% | | 1 |
Portuguese Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gunpowder infantry gets +15% hit points | | 10 |
Russians Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Infantry train time -25%; banner army train time -12% | | 25 |
Spanish Edit
| Card | Description | Age | Home City level |
|---|---|---|---|
 | All units get +10 LOS |  | 10 |
History Edit
"By definition, the “sepoy” is an indigenous soldier serving in the armed forces of a European power. The most commonly known example is a native Indian fighting for the British occupational forces in India, starting in the sixteenth century. The rank of sepoy is the lowest enlisted rank in the British India army, similar to that of a private.
Sepoy soldiers were the driving force behind the 1857 uprising associated with the British East India Company, the commercial trade empire that had occupied and exploited the territories of India since as early as 1610. The mutiny erupted when a group of sepoys refused to use their new Lee-Enfield rifles. Loading the rifles required the soldiers to bite off the ends of greased cartridges, and rumors that the cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs had circulated through the ranks. This outraged both Hindus, who regard cows as sacred, and Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean. After years of British mistreatment and disrespect, the sepoys found they had endured enough."
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