Tupi

Template:Infobox Civ Template:Infobox UnitThe Tupi are a minor civilization in Age of Empires III.

Overview

The Tupi are available as allies on the Amazonia and Pampas maps. Once a trading post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Tupi blackwood archers and research available upgrades.

Units

The Tupi blackwood archer is a hybrid archer, combining aspects of the crossbowman and skirmisher units. They have fewer hit points than either unit and two less range than a true skirmisher (18 vs. 20), however they have better range than the crossbowman (18 vs. 16) while also having the skirmisher bonus versus heavy infantry and a much faster ranged attack speed (1.5 vs. 3.0). They also inflict superior melee damage than either unit and cost only slightly more than a crossbowman.

Upgrades

Tupi upgrades focus on increasing an allies archers in combat, reducing building wood costs and training cougars along with the gold reserves and anti-building attacks.

Tupi Poison Arrow Frogs (Discovery Age): Increases archer damage by 10%.
Cost:225 wood, 225 coin

Tupi Forest Burning (Discovery Age): Reduces the wood needed for buildings by 20%.
Cost: 175 food, 175 coin

Tupi Animal Lore (Discovery Age): Allows cougars to be trained from the home city.
Cost: 75 wood, 75 coin

Tupi Warrior Societies (Fortress Age): Tupi attack and hit points raised by 25%.
Cost: 200 wood, 150 coin

Tupi Champions (Industrial Age): Tupi attack and hit points raised by 40%.
Cost: 400 wood, 300 coin

Usefulness

• Tupi forest burning can be stacked with other building cost reduction cards for a significant discount.
  • The Spanish can have free barracks and the Chinese can have very cheap war academies when this upgrade is combined with TEAM Cheap Barracks (-50% barracks cost, -25% war academy cost) and/or TEAM Art of War (-30% barracks cost, -30% war academy cost).
  • The Spanish can exploit their free barracks to build walls using the structure. If the Russians are the third ally in a 3vs3 game and send TEAM Barracks Hitpoints the barracks will possess 5,000 hit points each, significantly more than a basic wall.
  • The Japanese can stack this with their cheap shrine card (Heavenly Kami) for 35% cheaper shrines (81 wood vs. 125).
• Tupi poison arrow frogs are useful when stacked with other archer damage upgrades and home city card shipments.
  • The Japanese Ikko-Ikki monks benefit from this upgrade.
• Tupi animal lore is largely useless, it adds some population free units to your attack force but ultimately it's hard to work into a strategy versus flesh and blood opponents.
• Civilizations can remove the upgrade gold costs, or cut the upgrade costs in half depending on their home city cards.

In-game dialogue

They probably speak Old Tupi, an extinct language of the Tupi-Guarani family.

se guatavo (I will go)

tape (path??)

ha

hee (yes)

inera (attack)

nidivi (attack)

Gallery

Tupi trading post icon, orange feathers and armband instead of the blackwood archer blue feathers and armband.

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