


In addition four new tribes were also featured: The Apache, Mapuche, Navajo, and Klamath. Three new native tribes replace the ones elevated into playable civilizations: The Aztecs were replaced by the Zapotec, Iroquois by Huron, and Lakota (Sioux) by Cheyenne. In The WarChiefsplayers are able to assume control of one of the three largest and powerful Native American civilizations: The Iroquois, Sioux, and Aztecs. Twelve native tribes appear in the base game: The Aztecs, Carib, Cherokee, Comanche, Cree, Quechua, Iroquois, Lakota, Maya, Nootka, Seminole, and Tupi. Forming an alliance grants players the ability to train unique units and access special technologies. In the base game Age of Empires III, players cannot play with Native American civilizations, however, they can form alliances with minor civilizations on various maps by building a Trading Post in their native settlement. It is not clear which tribe they are supposed to represent, although their history entry theorizes they could be the Micmac or Beothuk tribes. Native Americans only officially appear on the random map Vinlandsaga where they are represented as " Skraelings", which use the same model and portrait as the Norse Ulfsark, though with a different tooltip and history entry. The Vinlandsaga scenario also features the Skraelings, the native tribes encountered by the Vikings during their colonization of the Americas, but they are represented by the Celts ( Iroquois Warrior in the Definitive Edition). However, they are able to train Slingers which work similarly to Hand Cannoneers. Like the Aztecs and Mayans, they lack cavalry and gunpowder units. The Forgotten introduced the third Native American civilization: the South American Incas. Also, they lack gunpowder units, but all the Native American civilizations have access to Arbalesters and Siege Rams as anti-infantry and siege options respectively to help offset the lack of Hand Cannoneers and Bombard Cannons. Thus, they start the game with an Eagle Scout (an Eagle Warrior in The Conquerors), a fast infantry unit with an extensive Line of Sight, instead of a Scout Cavalry.


Native American civilizations lack the ability to train cavalry units. The Native Americans first feature in the The Conquerors and consist of Mesoamerican natives: the Aztecs and the Mayans.
