Spanish Musketeer
Spanish Musketeer is a Definitive Edition Musketeer counterpart available to the Mexicans through Criollos and to Argentina through its revolution. It starts with 10% more hit points and damage than the standard Musketeer, but its training time is 65% longer. Its shared musket and bayonet profile gives it ranged infantry utility with a close-range answer to Cavalry.
Spanish Musketeer profile
- Civilizations & access
- Mexicans · Criollos Home City Card; Argentina · revolution
- Age & production
- Commerce Age · Fort
- Training
- 49.5 seconds · 1 population
- Durability
- 150 hit points · 20% hand resistance
- Mobility & sight
- Speed 4.0 · line of sight 16
- Ranged attack
- 23 damage · range 12 · 3.0-second interval
- Hand attack
- 13 damage · 1.5-second interval
- Hand bonuses
- 3.0× vs. Cavalry · 2.25× vs. Shock infantry
- Siege attack
- 20 damage · range 6 · 3.0-second interval
- Train / kill XP
- 10 / 10
Unit role & combat profile
The Mexican Criollos Home City Card ships Spanish Musketeers and permits Fort training; Argentina has a separate revolutionary shipment route. The recorded profile costs 75 Food and 25 Coin, takes 49.5 seconds to train and uses one population. It has 150 hit points, 20% hand resistance, speed 4.0 and line of sight 16. Its ranged attack deals 23 damage at range 12 every three seconds; the hand attack deals 13 every 1.5 seconds, with 3.0× damage against Cavalry and 2.25× against Shock infantry. Its siege attack deals 20 at range 6 every three seconds.
Availability & training
Definitive Edition · Mexicans: Criollos Home City Card; Argentina: Criollos Home City Card through the revolution · Commerce Age profile · Fort training · 75 Food · 25 Coin · 49.5 seconds · 1 population.
Combat values
Use the unit as the heavy infantry core of the card or revolution that grants access, and account for the long 49.5-second queue when replacing losses. Its bonuses support a stand-up fight against Cavalry, but the slow production gives an opponent time to adapt. Add units that can protect it from artillery and light infantry rather than assuming the Musketeer label makes it a complete army.
A slow-training counterpart
The Spanish Musketeer starts with a 10% hit point and damage advantage over the standard Musketeer, but the Wiki profile records a 65% slower train time. Its 49.5-second queue is therefore a central cost of the variant: build the army before committing to a long fight and protect existing units so the production delay does not leave the line depleted. The 10% advantage is specific to this counterpart and should not be applied to ordinary British, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish Musketeers.
Age upgrades and card routes
The unit automatically receives hit point and damage increases as the game advances: +20% in the Fortress Age, +30% in the Industrial Age and +50% in the Imperial Age. The Mexican Criollos card supplies nine units and enables Fort training; Argentina’s Criollos card supplies twenty-two through its Revolution and also enables Fort training. These are separate faction-specific deliveries, not a general shipment available to every Musketeer civilization. The upgrades apply by Age after the unit is available, so include the later automatic increases when assessing its long-game strength.
A card unlock and a slow queue serve different needs
Criollos first provides a shipment-sized group, while the Fort option supports later replacement production. The shipment can put the first Spanish Musketeers on the field without waiting for a long queue; the 49.5-second training time makes a Fort useful for sustained production but slow for replacing sudden losses. The Mexican delivery is nine units, while the Argentine Revolution delivery is twenty-two, so the same named unit supports very different army transitions. Protect the Fort and reserve population before starting production, then combine the line with units that can answer artillery and ranged infantry.