Compared with the Halberdier, the Trabant shares its food and coin cost, speed, Line of Sight, and melee resistance, but it is available in the Commerce Age, has less hit points and attack, costs no population space, and has a build limit, which can be increased by building a Trading Post at another House of Wettin palace or sending the TEAM Native Warrior Societies or Native Alliance Home City Cards. Like the Papal Guard, the Trabant has the Deflection passive ability, which allows it to absorb some of the damage inflicted to nearby player or ally units in a radius of 12.
While they are expensive compared with other heavy infantry units available in Commerce Age, like Pikemen or Musketeers, Trabants are useful to protect units from enemy attacks. However, it is recommended to combine Trabants with Hussars to defeat long-ranged infantry units (like Skirmishers) or artillery units, which can counter heavy infantry.
Special ability[]
Pistol Attack (automatically activated with a cooldown of 60 seconds): The Trabant fires a pistol which deals 30 damage and has a maximum range of 12. Its multipliers are ×1.34 vs. Cavalry and ×1.2 vs. Shock Infantry.
The General, Minutemen, and Heavy Infantry get +15% hit points and attack
Indian Friendship
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
The Indian Friendship card ships 3 Trabants if the player had built a Trading Post on a House of Wettin palace.
Originally, Trabants cost 50 food, 70 coin, deal 15 melee damage, and have a ×3.0 multiplier vs. Cavalry and ×2.2 multiplier vs. Shock Infantry. With update 13.18214, Trabants cost 60 food, 70 coin, deal 22 melee damage, have a ×2.0 multiplier vs. Cavalry and ×1.6 multiplier vs. Shock Infantry, and have a Charged Pistol attack.
Trivia[]
The Drabant, Trabant, and Dorobant share the same root from trabant/drabant, originally a Hussite Czech word, "foot soldier".
In its portrait and Compendium section image, the Trabant is armed with a partisan, but the in-game model wields a halberd instead.
The Trabant is based on the Leibgarde der Fuß-Trabanten (Trabant Foot Guards, in German) from the Royal Saxon Army formed in 1682. This regiment was renamed as Garde du Corps (Lifeguards, in French) in 1701 and it was formed out of the Saxon Trabants.
As the History section says, the Saxon Garde du Corps met its end during Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812, where almost all the trabants lost their lives.
History[]
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The House of Wettin ruled German Saxony (among other territories) from the medieval period up through the 20th century. Trabants, deriving from German traben, ‘to walk’, were elite guards who fought on foot instead of from horseback and became mainstays in prestigious European households, where they literally shielded their rulers from attacks. Trabants saw notable action in Saxon armies from the 17th century on through the Napoleonic Wars, where, serving the French, they were wiped out during the Grande Armee’s invasion of Russia in 1812.
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Pistol Attack (automatically activated with a cooldown of 60 seconds): The Trabant fires a pistol which deals 30 damage and has a maximum range of 12. Its multipliers are ×1.34 vs. Cavalry and ×1.2 vs. Shock Infantry.
Pistol Attack (automatically activated with a cooldown of 60 seconds): The Trabant fires a pistol which deals 30 damage and has a maximum range of 12. Its multipliers are ×1.34 vs. 
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