Tupi Blackwood Archer

Tupi Blackwood Archer
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Infantry Light infantry* Ranged infantry Archer Native warrior
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Trading Post on a Tupi settlement Native Embassy
Food	50
Wood	50
Training time	30 seconds
Training limit	16 per Tupi settlement
Statistics
Hit points	80
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	4.0
Line of Sight	22
XP train bounty	10
XP bounty	10
Melee attack
Damage	16
Multipliers	×2.0 vs. Heavy infantry, Light cavalry and Eagle Runner Knight ×0.75 vs. Cavalry and Coyote Runner
Rate of Fire	1.5
Ranged attack
Damage	19
Multipliers	Same as melee
Range	20
Rate of Fire	1.5
Siege attack
Damage	10
Range	6
Rate of Fire	3.0

“	Long-range, accurate native archer. Good against infantry.	”
—In-game description

The Tupi Blackwood Archer is a ranged infantry native warrior in Age of Empires III that can be trained at a Trading Post built on a Tupi settlement.

Overview

The Tupi Blackwood Archer is an archer with fewer hit points and ranged resistance while having a stronger attack. It has the same range as a Skirmisher since the Definitive Edition. Despite the weak hit points and ranged resistance, it has a devastating ranged attack with a quick rate of fire and also has the same multiplier as the Skirmisher versus heavy infantry.

For comparison, a Veteran Skirmisher deals 36 damage to heavy infantry for every 3 seconds in the Fortress Age without any upgrades, whereas a Tupi Blackwood Archer deals 76 damage to heavy infantry for every 3 seconds in the Commerce Age without any upgrades. However, this does not factor in the setup animation of the Tupi Blackwood Archers, which does not let players kite with them.

They also inflict superior melee damage than most archer type units (same melee damage as an Iron Troop) and cost only slightly more than a Crossbowman.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Tupi Warrior Societies	200 wood 150 coin	Upgrades Tupi Blackwood Archers to Elite (+25% hit points and attack)
	Champion Tupi	400 wood 300 coin	Upgrades Tupi Blackwood Archers to Champion (+40% hit points and attack); requires Tupi Warrior Societies
	Legendary Native Warriors Exalted Natives	1,500 food 1,500 wood	Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted (+50% hit points and attack)

The Legendary Native Warriors improvement is available in the Capitol for European civilizations and in the Town Center for Native American and Asian (as Exalted Natives) civilizations.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Heavy infantry, light cavalry, Eagle Runner Knights
Weak vs.	Heavy cavalry, Coyote Runners, artillery
Improvements
Hit points	Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Thin Red Line (+20%, British only) Cree Tanning (+5%) Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Attack	Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Carib Garifuna Drums (+1.0x multiplier vs. villagers) Haudenosaunee Lacrosse (+10%, vanilla Age of Empires III only) Seminole Bowyer (+25%) Tupi Poison Arrow Frogs (+10%) Yoga (+5%) Clenched Fist (+30% melee attack) Kalthoff Repeaters (+0.1× multiplier vs. light infantry)
Speed	Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%, Germans only) Cherokee War Dance (+20%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+20%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Armor	Hualcana (+10% resistance; Incas only) Somali Oryx Hide Shields (additional 10% melee/ranged resistance)
Range	Schützenfest (+1)
Sight	Town Watch (+2)
Creation speed	Standing Army (-25%) Quechuan Diet (-25%)
Penalties	Thin Red Line (-25% speed, British only) Coffee Trade (-10% speed, Dutch only) Tilly's Discipline (+10% cost, Germans only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Tupi Blackwood Archer

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Purple: Shipment that can be sent an INFINITE number of times All Card Description Age HC level Native Treaties Each different allied native tribe sends a shipment of their respective native warriors 1 Native Warriors Native warriors cost -25% 10 Native Warrior Combat Native warriors get +25% hit points and attack 25 TEAM Native Warrior Societies Native warrior train limit +30% 25 Blood Brothers Upgrades native warriors to Elite/Disciplined and Champion/Honored (if not already) 25 Fencing School Infantry train time -40% 10 The Native Treaties and Native Warriors cards are available to European and Native American civilizations. The Native Treaties card ships 5 Tupi Blackwood Archers if the player had built a Trading Post on a Tupi settlement. The Native Warrior Combat card is available to French and Haudenosaunee. The Blood Brothers card is available to Aztecs, French, Germans, Haudenosaunee, Portuguese, Russians, Lakota and Spanish. The TEAM Native Warrior Societies card is available to Aztecs, Dutch, Haudenosaunee and Lakota. The Fencing School card is not available to Chinese, Haudenosaunee, Japanese, Ottomans and Lakota. Asians Card Description Age HC level Native Alliance Native warrior train limit +20% and cost -10% (also +1 Villager for the Indians) 1 Native Warrior Hitpoints Native warriors get +30% hit points and +10% speed (also +1 Villager for the Indians) 10 Native Warrior Attack Native warriors get +30% attack and train time -25% 10 The Native Alliance card is not available to the Chinese. The Native Warrior Hitpoints card is not available to the Japanese. The Native Warrior Attack card is not available to the Indians. Chinese Card Description Age HC level Western Reforms All units get +8% hit points and attack 40 Acupuncture Unit train time -20% 10 Dutch Card Description Age HC level TEAM Infantry Hitpoints Infantry get +15% hit points 10 French Card Description Age HC level TEAM Ranged Infantry Attack Ranged infantry get +15% attack 10 Wilderness Warfare Coureurs des Bois, Skirmishers, and native warriors get +20% hit points 25 TEAM Improved Native Warriors Native warriors get +15% hit points and attack 1 Indians Card Description Age HC level Dravidian Martial Arts All units get +15% melee attack +1 Villager 40 TEAM Shivaji's Tactics All units get +5% hit points and attack 25 Haudenosaunee Card Description Age HC level Infantry Attack Infantry get +15% attack 10 Infantry Hitpoints Infantry get +15% hit points 10 Infantry Combat Infantry get +15% hit points and attack 25 TEAM Scout Infantry Infantry get +8 LOS 10 Japanese Card Description Age HC level Onin War Infantry get +33% siege attack 40 TEAM Cheaper Unit Upgrades Unit upgrades cost -20% 1 Portuguese Card Description Age HC level 15 Tupi Allies Ships 15 Tupi Blackwood Archers and upgrades them to Champion (if not already); costs 1,000 coin 40 Russians Card Description Age HC level Ransack Infantry get +50% siege attack 25 TEAM Dueling School Infantry train time -25%; Skull Knights spawn 25% faster; banner army train time -12% 25 Lakota Card Description Age HC level Wind Runner Infantry get +10% speed 10 Black Arrow Native warrior train time -85% 10 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Tupi Blackwood Archers have a build limit of 15, 18 range, 20 LOS and train in 20 seconds.
• Tupi Blackwood Archers do not have an Archer tag.

Definitive Edition

• Tupi Blackwood Archers have a build limit of 16, 20 range, 22 LOS and train in 30 seconds.
• Tupi Blackwood Archers have an Archer tag.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.9057, the Tupi Blackwood Archer is tagged as Light Infantry.

In-game dialogue

Main article: Tupi#In-game_dialogue

History

“

Tupi warriors wore little or no clothing when they went into battle, though often they would paint themselves red or black. They would not fight after dark, but dawn would bring the sound of their horns calling the warriors to fight. The Tupi primarily used bows, which they fired rapidly and with an accuracy that amazed the Europeans - mostly Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch - who encountered them. Fighting between family groups was commonplace among the Tupi, and they did not hesitate to add the European invaders to the list of their enemies.

”

Gallery

The Blackwood Archer's history portrait

An in-game Tupi Blackwood Archer