Warrior Priest (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the unit in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. For other uses, see Warrior Priest.

Warrior Priest
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Infantry Hand infantry Healing unit Economic Land military
Civilization(s)	Aztecs
Age	Commerce Age
Training
Trained at	Community Plaza (Healers Ceremony) American Citadel
Cost	200 Coin 0 Population
Train time	45 seconds
Train limit	10
Statistics
Hit points	360
Resistance	10% Ranged
Speed	4.5
Line of Sight	16
Ability	Works at the Community Plaza as two units
Train XP	20
Kill XP	20
Healing
Healing	10/s
Range	12
Hand attack
Damage	5 Hand
Rate of Fire	1.5
Bonus damage	3.0x vs. Guardian

“	Heals injured units and are also effective in combat. Warrior Priests are extremely effective when occupying the Community Plaza.	”
—In-game description

“	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 Healers 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.

In-game information

“

The Warrior Priest is an infantry unit with a good melee attack. He has the ability to heal nearby units, and counts as two units when occupying the Community Plaza.

”

Overview

Warrior Priests heal close-by units at a rate of 10 hit points per second. 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 Healers Ceremony. The Warrior Priest also has a hand 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.

When sent to work at the Community Plaza, Warrior Priests are considered as 2 Villagers. As they cost no population (1 before the Definitive Edition), players are highly encouraged to hit the cap of 10 Warrior Priests and assign them all to work at the Community Plaza. With 15 additional Villagers working alongside them, the player's Community Plaza acts as if 35 Villagers were present, which makes the plaza's ceremonies significantly potent.

Warrior Priests are tagged as infantry and are affected by technologies and Home City Cards that reduce infantry training time.

Every player can obtain Warrior Priests if their Aztec ally sends the "TEAM 2 Warrior Priests" Home City Card.

Strategies

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

"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.

Upgrades

The Warrior Priest is automatically upgraded in every Age from the Commerce Age.

• +200% damage
• +300% damage
• +300% damage
• +300% damage

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Treasure guardian
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Mission Fervor (+50%; Europeans only) Medical Science (+35%; United States only) Maya Cotton Armor (+20%) Infantry Breastplate (+10%) Cree Tanning (+5%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Navajo Weaving (+5%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Zapotec Cult of the Dead (+20%) Carib Kasiri Beer (+10%) Master Lessons (+10%) Gadaa System (+5%; Ethiopians only) Yoga (+5%)
Resistance	Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance) Hualcana (+5% resistance; Inca only)
Speed	Tilly's Discipline (+20%; Germans only) Medical Science (+15%; United States only) Military Drummers (+10%) Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%) Akan Fontomfrom (+5%) Apache Endurance (+5%)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+3)
Cost	Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Train time	Quechuan Diet (-15%) Akan Fontomfrom (-5%) Immigrants (-5%)
Other	Mission Fervor (+50% healing rate; Europeans only)

Home City Cards

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

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Red	Shipment that can be sent twice
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

• Definitive Edition
• The Asian Dynasties

Shared

Card	Description	Age
Liberation March	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry train time -35%, speed +5%

• "Liberation March" is also available to the Mexicans and Spanish.

Aztecs

Card	Description	Age
TEAM 2 Warrior Priests	Delivers 2 Warrior Priests
3 Warrior Priests	Delivers 3 Warrior Priests
5 Warrior Priests	Delivers 5 Warrior Priests
High Priest of Ixtlilton	The Aztec War Chief hit points and damage +50%; Warrior Priest worker weight and gather work rate for Community Plaza +10%
Calendar Ceremony	Delivers 1 Warrior Priest; enables Calendar Ceremony at the Community Plaza

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure	Delivers 1 Mongol Scout; infantry, land villager, healing unit, Envoy, and Disciple speed +5%
Western Reforms	Unit hit points and damage +8%

• "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" does not stack with the Inca "TEAM Inca Bridges" card.

Dutch

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +10%; Dutch-only infantry hit points +15% instead

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Ignatian Spirituality	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +5%, regeneration rate +1.0 (even in combat)

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Wanderlust	Land military and land villager hit points +5%; land villager and construction wagon speed +5% (can be sent 3 times)

• "Wanderlust" is available to the British and Dutch upon revolting to South Africa.

Haudenosaunee

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Scout Infantry	Delivers 1 Native Scout; infantry Line of Sight +8
Conservative Tactics	Infantry hit points and damage +10%

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Road Building	Land military speed +10%
TEAM Inca Bridges	Delivers 1 Chasqui; infantry, land villager, healing unit, and Envoy speed +5%

• "TEAM Inca Bridges" does not stack with the Chinese "TEAM Yongle Infrastructure" card.

Indians

Card	Description	Age
Dravidian Martial Arts	Unit all melee attack damage +15%; Rajput hand attack damage +20% instead, +1 Hindu Villager
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	Unit hit points and damage +5%

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Infantry Hitpoints	Infantry hit points +15%
Schiavoni Swords	Infantry, cavalry, and shock infantry all melee attack damage +15%

Lakota

Card	Description	Age
Moccasins	Infantry speed +10%

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Delivers 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center and Command Post present on the map; unit hit points +2%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military building training and research work rate +400%, unit speed +10%
Colegio de San Nicolas	Delivers 1 Large Collection of Books (500 XP); unit Line of Sight +4; building (except Wall) Line of Sight +8; reveals enemy units' positions for 20 seconds
National Servant	Unit (except herded animals) hit points +10%; Padre heal work rate +200%	Imperial Age
Pok Ta Pok	Infantry train time -10%, speed +10%

• "Colegio de San Nicolas" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "National Servant" is available upon selecting the Estado de México Federal State.
• "Pok Ta Pok" is available upon revolting to the Maya.

Russians

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Patriarchy	Healing unit cost and train time -50%; Inquisitor cost and train time -15% instead; Healer, Warrior Priest, and Priestess train time -15% instead

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry damage +15%
Archaic Infantry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and foot archer hit points +15%; Rodelero hit points +20% instead
Archaic Infantry Combat	Hand infantry and foot archer hit points and damage +15%
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Delivers 1 Inquisitor; military and economic unit Line of Sight +10

Swedes

Card	Description	Age
Hand Infantry/Hand Cavalry Hitpoints	Hand infantry and hand cavalry hit points +15%

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 damage		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% hand damage; +1 Villager		40
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics	All units get +5% hit points and damage		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 damage		25
TEAM Scout Infantry	Infantry get +8 Line of Sight		10

Russians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Cheap Priests	Healing unit cost -50% and train time -75%; Healer and Warrior Priest train time -15% instead		10
Dueling School	Infantry (except Skull Knights), Old Han Army, and Territorial Army train time -25%; Black Flag Army, Standard Army, Ming Army, and Imperial Army train time -12%		25

Sioux

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Wind Runner	Infantry get +10% speed		10

Spanish

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack	Hand infantry get +15% attack		10
TEAM Inquisition	All units get +10 Line of Sight		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.

Trivia

• The Warrior Priest carries a knife as a weapon. Aztec knives were usually made from flint or obsidian (its name, tecpatl, means "flint" in Nahuatl), with a lanceolate figure and double-edged blade, with elongated ends. While they were traditionally used for human sacrifices, it was also a short-range weapon of the Jaguar Warriors, mainly as a sidearm, although it may have been of limited use on the battlefield.

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

In-game Warrior Priest

The Warrior Priest from the in game history section

Warrior Priest image from the Definitive Edition Compendium section

In-game Warrior Priest in the Definitive Edition

See also

• Priest – European equivalent
• Surgeon – alternative European healer and United States equivalent
• Imam – Ottoman equivalent
• Missionary – Spanish equivalent
• Healer – Maya native equivalent
• Healer – Haudenosaunee and Lakota equivalent
• Priestess – Inca equivalent
• Abun – Ethiopian equivalent
• Griot – Hausa equivalent
• Padre – Mexican equivalent