The Comanche are a Native American tribe in Age of Empires III. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post at their Trading Post site.
Unit[]
Comanche Horse Archer: Comanche ranged cavalry. Good against cavalry.
Technologies[]
Comanche technologies mostly focus on cavalry and reducing the cost of more advanced technologies.
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Comanche Trade Language
|
100 food 100 coin |
All technologies and Wonders cost -10% coin |
 Comanche Horse Breeding
|
150 food 150 coin |
Cavalry and shock infantry get +10% hit points | |
 Comanche Mustangs
|
200 wood 200 coin |
Cavalry get +5% speed |
Strategy[]
Comanche technologies help civilizations with strong cavalry, such as the French, Germans, Indians, and Lakota. Comanche Horse Breeding gives +10% hit points, and Comanche Mustangs gives +5% speed. This improves their unit, the Comanche Horse Archer, which is a useful unit for civilizations that lack mounted units, such as the Aztecs and Incas, and very powerful for civilizations with many technologies and Home City Cards for cavalry and native warriors. Economically, Comanche Trade Language reduces the cost of all technologies, including Age-ups.
In-game dialogue[]
The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family.
- Select 1 Haa? - Yes?
- Select 2 Ali? or Hani? - What is your command?
- Move 1 Mi lik you - OK
- Move 2 Mia - I will do it
- Attack 1 Tu gen! - Attack!
- Attack 2 Tug wa suoh! - Attack!
History[]
| “ | Before European contact, the Comanche were part of the Shoshone tribe living along the Platte River in eastern Wyoming. They acquired the horse in the late seventeenth century and thereafter began migrating to the southwest as a separate tribe. They eventually established effective control over a wide area stretching from western Oklahoma, across the Texas Panhandle, and into New Mexico. This area was known as the Comancheria. They became the expert horsemen of the southern plains and were very skilled with the lance, bow, and arrow. Their population grew because hunting buffalo from horseback provided a dependable food supply. They built up huge herds of horses through breeding and capture, and particularly prized the pintos and painted horses. They built a reputation as fierce and pitiless warriors, fighting both as raiders and as defenders of their stock. For much of the eighteenth century the Comanche waged war against neighboring tribes, especially the Apaches, and the Spanish based in Santa Fe, Texas, and Mexico. When Americans moved into Texas, the Comanches got into conflict with them. A series of treaties were signed with the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States, but the whites could not stop settler encroachment, which always led to more fighting. Gradually the Comanche were devastated by disease and worn down by military action. They were placed on a reservation, but eventually most of that was taken away and opened to white settlers. | ” |
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