Settler Wagon

Settler Wagon
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Villager
Civilization	Germans
Age	Exploration Age
Abilities	Gather resources Build buildings Claim Treasures
Training
Trained at	Mill (with "Germantown Farmers" Home City Card)
Food	100
Wood	100
Training time	25 seconds
Training limit	20
Statistics
Hit points	300
Resists	30% vs. Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	14
Population	2
XP train bounty	20
XP bounty	20
Melee attack
Damage	10
Rate of Fire	3.0
Ranged attack
Damage	3
Multipliers	×5.75 vs. Huntable ×2.0 vs. Pet and Artillery ×0.5 vs. Villager
Range	12
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	A German villager that is more expensive but gathers faster than a Settler.	”
—In-game description

The Settler Wagon is an economic unit in Age of Empires III that is unique to the Germans and can only be shipped from the Home City until the "Germantown Farmers" Home City Card has been sent, which allows them to be trained at the Mill. It gathers twice as fast than Settlers but also costs wood, uses up two population, and has a much lower train limit. Unlike French Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons do not replace Settlers.

Settler Wagons construct buildings significantly faster than Settlers. Tasking more than one Settler to build a building only decreases the construction time by 25%, rather than halving it. This means that if players were to use two Settlers to build a building, they would only construct it 25% faster. Settler Wagons, however, construct buildings 100% faster than an ordinary Settler, which means a lot of time is conserved by using a Settler Wagon instead of Settlers to build buildings. Settler Wagons also have a 30% ranged resistance, unlike the usual melee resistance of Settlers, making them durable to ranged attacks.

In standard random map games, the Germans start with three Settler Wagons instead of Settlers.

The United States can gain access to the Settler Wagon through the "German Immigrants" Home City Card, which causes a Settler Wagon to spawn at every new and existing Mill, and allows them to be trained from Mills starting in the Industrial Age, albeit with a much lower build limit of 5.

Tasks

Settler Wagons can be assigned with the same tasks as Settlers.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything, especially Oprichniks
Improvements
Gathering speed	Civil Servants (+5% from natural resources; Asians only) Imperial Bureaucracy (+10% from natural resources; Asians only) Klamath Work Ethos (+5%) Fasting (+10%) Punjabi New Year (+10% from Mills, Farms, Estates, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas) For food: Hunting Dogs (+10% from huntable animals; Europeans and Native Americans only) Steel Traps (+20% from huntable animals; Europeans only) Seed Drill (+15% from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas; Europeans only) Artificial Fertilizer (+30% from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas; Europeans only) Large Scale Agriculture (+50% from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas; Europeans only) Encomienda Manor (+20% from Mills; Portuguese 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) Hanami Parties (+5% from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards; Japanese only) Professional Hunters (+10% from huntable animals; Chinese and Indians only) Yozakura Lanterns (+10% from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards; Japanese only) Paddy Threshing (+15% from Rice Paddies, Mills, Farms, Fields, and Haciendas; Asians only) Irrigation Channels (+15% from Rice Paddies, Mills, Farms, Fields, and Haciendas; Asians only) Dike-Controlled Canals (+15% from Rice Paddies, Mills, Farms, Fields, and Haciendas; Asians only) Mechanized Rice Cultivation (+50% from Rice Paddies, Mills, Farms, Fields, and Haciendas; Asians only) Maya Calendar (+10%) Zapotec Food of the Gods (+10%) Vegetarianism (+40% from Berry Bushes) Iowa Farmlands (+40% from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas; United States only) Akan Cocoa Beans (+30% from Berry Bushes, 10% from Mills, Farms, Rice Paddies, Fields, and Haciendas) For wood: Gang Saw (+10%; Europeans only) Log Flume (+20%; Europeans only) Circular Saw (+30%; Europeans only) Lumber Ceremony (+20%; Native Americans only) Forest People Ceremony (+20%; Native Americans only) Forest Spirit Ceremony (+20%; Native Americans only) Deforestation (+50%; Europeand and Native Americans only) Water Wheel (+5%; Asians only) Regenerative Forestry (+10%; Asians only) Timber Trade (+30%; Asians only) Tropical Timber Trade (+50%; Asians only) Wood Clearing (+20%) Pine Tree State (+40%; United States only) Yoruba Herbalism (+10%) For coin: Placer Mines (+10% from mines; Europeans and Native Americans only) Amalgamation (+20% from mines; Europeans only) Bookkeeping (+10% from Estates and Rice Paddies; Europeans only) Homesteading (+20% from Estates and Rice Paddies; Europeans only) Refineries (+30% from Estates and Rice Paddies; Europeans only) Excessive Taxation (+50%; Europeans only) Earth Ceremony (+10%; Native Americans only) Earth Gift Ceremony (+20%; Native Americans only) Excessive Tribute (+50%; Native Americans only) Blanket Filters (+5% from mines; Asians only) Flume and Ditching (+10% from mines; Asians only) Rice Surplus (+10% from Rice Paddies and Estates; Asians only) Rice Trade (+20% from Rice Paddies and Estates; Asians only) Rice Markets (+20% from Rice Paddies and Estates; Asians only) Rice Exports (+20% from Rice Paddies and Estates; Asians only) Collective Economy (+50%; Asians only) Quechuan Metalworking (+20% from mines) Navajo Craftsmanship (+20%) Mountain State Gold Rush (+40%; United States only) Somali Coinage (+10%)
Hit points	Great Coat (+35%; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+35%; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+35%; Asians only) Nootka Bark Clothing (+50%) Apache Cactus Use (+15%) Frontiersmen (+35%; United States and Mexicans only) Berber Kings of the Desert (+35%)
Attack	Blunderbuss (+3; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+3; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+3; Asians only)
Range	Blunderbuss (+4; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+4; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+4; Asians only) Frontiersmen (+6; United States and Mexicans only)
Sight	Blunderbuss (+4; Europeans only) Spirit Medicine (+4; Native Americans only) Eastern Medicine (+4; Asians only) Frontiersmen (+6; United States and Mexicans only)
Speed	Apache Cactus Use (+15%)
Creation speed	Christian Schools (-15%)
Other	Sharia (+10% train limit)
Penalties	Encomienda Manor (-5% gather rate from anything but Mills; Portuguese only) Fasting (-40% hit points)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Settler Wagon

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Purple: Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE amount of times Red: Shipment that can be sent TWICE (Japanese only) All Card Description Age HC level Pioneers Villagers get +65% hit points 1 Stonemasons Villagers and wagons/travois build buildings 65% faster 10 Sawmills Settlers, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather wood 15% faster 10 Exotic Hardwoods Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather wood 20% faster 25 Silversmith Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from mines 20% faster 10 Food Silos Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from Farms, Mills, and Rice Paddies (food) 15% faster 1 TEAM Food Silos Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from Mills, Farms, and Rice Paddies (food) 10% faster 1 Royal Mint Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather coin 25% faster 10 Sustainable Agriculture Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from Farms, Mills, and Rice Paddies (food) 15% faster 10 Furrier Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from huntable animals 15% faster and gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 20% faster 1 TEAM Furrier Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from huntable animals 10% faster and gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 15% faster 1 Spice Trade Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from hunted animals, Berry Bushes, and Cherry Orchards 20% faster 10 Rum Distillery Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather Coin from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 20% faster 1 Fulling Mills Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from livestock 300% faster 10 TEAM Medicine Villager train time -15% 25 The Stonemasons card is available to European civilizations and the Aztecs. The Japanese has the TEAM Pioneers card instead of Pioneers. The Silversmith card is not available to the Lakota. The Japanese has Sawmills and Silversmith cards that can be sent TWICE instead of the standard ones. The Aztecs have the TEAM Exotic Hardwoods card and Exotic Hardwoods. Germans and Haudenosaunee have TEAM Food Silos instead of Food Silos. The Royal Mint card is not available to Native American civilizations. The Sustainable Agriculture card is not available to the Lakota. The Refrigeration card is not available to Native American civilizations and Indians. The Furriers card is not available to the Japanese; Haudenosaunee and Russians have TEAM Furriers instead. The Spice Trade card is not available to Aztecs and Japanese. The Rum Distillery card is available to Haudenosaunee, Indians, and Japanese. The Fulling Mills card is available to Chinese and Haudenosaunee. The TEAM Medicine card is available to Aztecs, Indians, and Haudenosaunee. Aztecs Card Description Age HC level TEAM Exotic Hardwoods Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather wood 15% faster 25 TEAM Silversmith Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from mines 10% faster 1 Aztec Mining Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from mines 40% faster 25 Grain Market Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Farms, Mills, and Rice Paddies (food) 20% faster 25 Chinampa Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Farms, Estates, Mills, and Rice Paddies 10% faster 10 Great Chinampa Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Farms, Estates, Mills, and Rice Paddies 15% faster 25 British Card Description Age HC level TEAM Rum Distillery Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from Estates and Rice Paddies (coin) 15% faster 1 Dutch Card Description Age HC level TEAM Spice Trade Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from huntable animals 10% faster and gather from Berry Bushes and Cherry Orchards 15% faster 10 Europeans Card Description Age HC level Economic Theory Settlers, Settler Wagons, Fishing Boats, and Caravels gather 10% faster 40 TEAM Ironmonger Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather from mines 10% faster 1 The Economic Theory card is not available to British and Dutch. The TEAM Ironmongers card is available to Ottomans and Spanish. French Card Description Age HC level TEAM Sawmills Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, and Villagers gather wood 10% faster 10 Germans Card Description Age HC level 1 Settler Wagon Ships 1 Settler Wagon 1 2 Settler Wagon Ships 2 Settler Wagons +2 Uhlans 1 2 Settler Wagons Ships 2 Settler Wagons 1 TEAM Settler Wagons Ships 2 Settler Wagons 1 3 Settler Wagons Ships 3 Settler Wagons +2 Uhlans 1 6 Settler Wagons Ships 6 Settler Wagons +4 Uhlans 40 Guild Artisans Settler Wagons gather 35% faster +4 Uhlans 25 Medicine Villager train time -15% +2 Uhlans 25 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Woodcrafting Settler Wagons and Villager gather wood 20% faster +1 Villager 25 Japanese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Pioneers Villagers get +35% hit points 1 Sawmills Settler Wagons and Villagers gather wood 15% faster 10 Silversmith Settler Wagons and Villagers gather coin from mines 20% faster 25 Reclaimed Land Ships 1 Rice Paddy Rickshaw; Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Rice Paddies 5% faster 1 Flooded Parcel Ships 1 Rice Paddy Rickshaw; Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Rice Paddies 8% faster 10 Terraced Hillsides Ships 1 Rice Paddy Rickshaw; Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from Rice Paddies 10% faster 25 TEAM Chonindo Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, Settler Wagons, Villagers, Fishing Boats, Caravels/Galleys/War Junks/Fune, Canoes, War Canoes, Tlaloc Canoes, and Marathan Catamarans gather 8% faster 40 Lakota Card Description Age HC level Great Hunter Settler Wagons and Villagers gather from huntable animals, Berry Bushes, and Cherry Orchards 20% faster 10 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Settler Wagons have a ×4.0 multiplier against huntables.

Definitive Edition

• Settler Wagons now have a ×5.75 multiplier against huntables.
• Settler Wagons now turn into two Revolutionaries/Barbary Warriors/Karelian Jaegers/Javanese Spearmen/Cuerudos when the player revolts (the additional Revolutionaries are given as a shipment).
• With update 20322, Settler Wagons now obey rally points set at Mills.

Trivia

• The Settler Wagon is dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing. His wagon is being pulled by a mule or a donkey. The driver talks in Standard German with a gentle and kind voice.
• The Settler Wagon resembles the Atlantean Citizen in Age of Mythology.
• Just like the Citizen in Age of Mythology: The Titans, the content Settler Wagons carry changes depend on the resources they are collecting. The content at Estates is the same as Mills and Berry Bushes, however.

History

“

Prairie Schooners and Conestoga Wagons were two types of covered wagons used by settlers and pioneers to cross the early frontiers of North America. Prairie Schooners were lighter and needed two or four horses or oxen to pull them. Conestoga Wagons were big, heavy wagons that needed teams of six or eight to pull them along. Before railroad tracks crisscrossed the Great Plains, Conestoga Wagons hauled most of the freight that went back and forth between the east and west coasts. Conestoga Wagons originated in a German area of Pennsylvania.

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Gallery

A stationary Settler Wagon.

A Settler Wagon hunting

A Settler Wagon cutting down trees

A Settler Wagon mining

A Settler Wagon at a Plantation