Young Guard

Young Guard
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Civilization	French
Age	Commerce Age*
Research
Researched at	Church
Required Home City Card	Edict of Nantes
Required for	Middle Guard
Food	500
Research time	15 seconds
Effect
Delivers 4 Young Guards Enables Grenadiers to be trained at Barracks, Artillery Foundries, Forts, and Galleons Enables Grenadier to be upgraded at Barracks and Artillery Foundries Enables Artillery Foundries to be built in the Commerce Age

“	Ships 4 Young Guards (powerful Grenadiers) and enables Grenadier training in the Artillery Foundry.	”
—In-game description

Young Guard is a technology in Age of Empires III that is unique to the French and can be researched at the Church once the Edict of Nantes Home City Card has been sent. Once researched, 4 Young Guards will appear in the Home City shipment point, allows Grenadiers to be trained at Barracks, Artillery Foundries, Forts, and Galleons, Grenadier unit upgrades to be researched at both Barracks and Artillery Foundries, and Artillery Foundries to be built in the Commerce Age.

Young Guard, along with its further upgrades Middle Guard and Old Guard, is the only way for the French to acquire Grenadiers. Researching Guard technologies will automatically research the Incendiary Grenades technology and grant "Grenade Launchers" Home City Card effects, which is no longer available to the French.

Young Guards are consulate units, start with +10% hit points and attack, and are automatically upgraded in every Age up starting from the Fortress Age.

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• The technology is named Garde Imperial 1, is researchable in the Colonial Age, ships regular Grenadiers, grants the Veteran Grenadiers upgrade, and the in-game description is "Ships 4 Young Guard Grenadiers from the motherland."

Definitive Edition

• The technology is renamed to Imperial Young Guard.
• The technology is made researchable from the Fortress Age. With update 23511, this change is reverted.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 13.27885, the technology is renamed to Young Guard, no longer grants Veteran Grenadiers, ships Consulate Grenadiers, allows Grenadiers to be trained at the Artillery Foundry, Fort, and Galleon, Grenadier unit upgrades to be researched at both Barracks and Artillery Foundries, Artillery Foundries to be built in the Commerce Age, and the in-game description is "Ships 4 Young Guards (powerful Grenadiers) and enables Grenadier training in the Artillery Foundry."

Trivia

• The French Expeditionary Company, available for the Chinese and the Indians in The Asian Dynasties through the Consulate by allying with the French, includes 4 Young Guards.