Warrior Priest

Warrior Priest
Unit information
Introduced in	The WarChiefs
Type	Infantry Melee infantry
Civilization	Aztecs
Age	Commerce Age
Abilities	Heals injured units (10 hit points per second, range 12) Work at the Community Plaza as two units
Training
Trained at	Community Plaza (Holy Ceremony)
Coin	200
Training time	See Holy Ceremony
Training limit	10
Statistics
Hit points	360
Resists	10% vs. Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	16
Population	0
XP bounty	20
Melee attack
Damage	5
Multipliers	x3.0 vs. Treasure Guardian
Rate of Fire	1.5

“	Heals injured units and are also effective in combat. Warrior Priests are extremely effective when dancing at the Fire Pit.	”
—In-game description in The WarChiefs

The Warrior Priest is a special unit in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Aztecs and can be obtained through Holy Ceremony or shipped from the Home City. It functions similarly to the Healer but holds a stronger attack in later Ages and can work as two Villagers at the Community Plaza. In standard random map games, the Aztecs start with a Warrior Priest alongside the Aztec War Chief.

Overview

Warrior Priests heal close-by units at a rate of 10 hit points per second. They can also be assigned to work as the Community Plaza where they count as two Villagers each. The player is given one Warrior Priest at the start of the game, and it is possible to create up to ten Warrior Priests in the Community Plaza through the Holy Ceremony. The Warrior Priest also has a melee attack which initially does 5 damage but increases to 15 in the Commerce Age, 30 in the Fortress Age, 45 in the Industrial Age, and 60 in the Imperial Age.

Warrior Priests are considered infantry and are affected by improvements and Home City Cards that reduce infantry training time.

Strategies

• Assign the spawn reunion point to the Fire Pit to make the Warrior Priest dance automatically (this strategy doesn't work in The Asian Dynasties, probably due to a bug).
• In the Discovery Age, use the free Warrior Priest to increase XP generation until the Colonial Age.
• Is recommended to spawn them as quickly as possible in the Commerce Age.
• Two or Three Aztec Home City Cards are very important to spawn them quickly, shown from most important to least:

"Fencing School": Reduces infantry train time by -40%.

"3 Warrior Priests": Self-explanatory.

"TEAM 2 Warrior Priests": Self-explanatory. Very useful if the player's allies are also Native Americans, as the new Warrior Priests can be used at the Community Plaza.

• It is not necessary for Aztecs to use the Warrior Priest to heal units, as they have Healing Ceremony, which is more efficient, healing all inactive military units.
• Warrior Priest spawn time is longer in The WarChiefs than in The Asian Dynasties.

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Mission Fervor (+35%, Europeans only) Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Thin Red Line (+20%, British only) Cree Tanning (+5%) Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Attack	Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Yoga (+5%) Master Lessons (+10%)
Speed	Mission Fervor (+15%, Europeans only) Military Drummers (+10%) Tilly's Discipline (+20%, Germans only) Incan Road-building (+20%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Sight	Town Watch (+2)
Creation speed	Incan Chasquis Messengers (-25%)
Penalties	Thin Red Line (-25% speed, British only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Warrior Priest

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Aztecs Card Description Age HC level TEAM 2 Warrior Priests Ships 2 Warrior Priests 10 3 Warrior Priests Ships 3 Warrior Priests 25 Fencing School Infantry train time -40% 10 Chinese Card Description Age HC level Western Reforms All units get +8% hit points and attack 40 Dutch Card Description Age HC level TEAM Infantry Hitpoints Infantry get +15% hit points 10 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 Iroquois 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 Russians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheap Priests Priests, Imams, and Missionaries cost -50% and train time -75%; Medicine Man and Warrior Priest spawn time -15% 10 TEAM Dueling School Infantry train time -25%; banner army train time -12% 25 Spanish Card Description Age HC level TEAM Hand Infantry Attack Melee infantry get +15% attack 10 TEAM Inquisition All units get +10 LOS 10

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Warrior Priests cost 1 population.
• Warrior Priests have a speed of 4.0 and 12 LOS.
• Warrior Priests are tagged as LogicalTypeValidSharpshoot, so they can be killed by the Eye of Assassin ‘crackshot’ and similar abilities.
• Warrior Priests have no multipliers.

Definitive Edition

• Warrior Priests now cost 0 population.
• Warrior Priests have a speed of 4.5 and 16 LOS.
• Warrior Priests are no longer tagged as LogicalTypeValidSharpshoot, so they cannot be killed by the Eye of Assassin ‘crackshot’ and similar abilities.
• With update 9476, Warrior Priests have a ×3.0 multiplier against Treasure Guardians.

History

“

The most densely populated region of the New World in 1492 was Mesoamerica, the region where North and Central America meet. Among the people living there were the Aztecs (also known as Mexica or Tenocha); they built a complex civilization centered around their great city of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). This was one of the largest cities in the world (with an estimated population of 200,000) and arguably more beautiful and cleaner than most contemporary European capitals. In Aztec society, membership in the calpulli established each individual's religious and secular schooling, as well as how they would be trained in warfare. The men of a calpulli served together in battle and on the numerous public works projects. Their soldiers wielded weapons of wood and stone, and they often sought prisoners to be sacrificed in religious ceremonies. The male children of the upper classes attended a special school called a calmecac. It was there they learned the secrets of the Aztec priesthood and how to perform religious ceremonies and responsibilities - in essence, grooming them for leadership, since in Aztec society government and religion were virtually indistinguishable.

”

Gallery

An in-game Warrior Priest

The Warrior Priest from the in game history section

Warrior Priest image from the Definitive Edition Compendium section

See also

• Healer – Haudenosaunee and Lakota counterpart
• Priestess – Inca counterpart