The Barbary Corsair attacks with a large scimitar - a curved sword used across the Arabic world - and uses flaming torches to attack buildings, like most other units. Because Corsairs are melee heavy infantry, they are best at fighting cavalry units and are fairly effective against other heavy infantry units, but, for melee heavy infantry, it has relatively low attack damage against buildings. Corsairs have an exceptional speed for infantry, only surpassed by the Spy.
Infantry and shock infantry train time -40% (also +2 Uhlans for the Germans; +1 Villager for the Indians)
10
Outlaw Combat
Outlaws and mercenaries get +15% hit points and attack (also upgrades Filibusters to Veteran for Baja California; costs 750 coin for Baja California, Hungary, and Revolutionary Mexicans)
N/A
"Liberation March" is available to the Mexicans and Spanish.
"Fencing School" is available to the Aztecs and Europeans (except French, Maltese, Ottomans, and Spanish).
Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +10% speed, +20 Line of Sight and train units 15% faster; land military unit train time -20%; Banner army train time -10%
The General, Minutemen, and heavy infantry get +15% hit points and attack
Poker
Ships 13 random mercenaries; up to 3 random mercenaries available at Saloon; costs 3,500 coin
Indiana Mobilization
Ships 1 Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game including this one; unit train time (except Heavy Cannons), technology research time, and age-up time -10%; costs 250 food, 250 wood
"Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting the Indiana Federal State.
"Hamilton's Own" is available upon selecting the New York Federal State.
Buccaneer Captain[]
The Buccaneer Captain is a Treasure guardian variant of the Barbary Corsair. With a siege damage of over 100, it is good at destroying buildings and ships. It only appears in the Pirates! scenario of Act I: Blood. This unit is also accessible in the Scenario Editor under the Units category, as "GRD Buc Captain".
Historical Battles[]
“
Pirate from the Barbary Coast.
”
—In-game description
A variant of the Barbary Corsair appears in the Algiers scenario of the Historical Battles, serving as a replacement for the Rodelero. He has less hit points, less attack, is not tagged as mercenary, and gives less experience when trained or killed, but can be trained in the Commerce Age, costs less resources and population, and trains in less time than his equivalent. This variant of the Barbary Corsair is also accessible in the Scenario Editor under the Units category, as "SPC Barbary Corsair".
With update 14.43676, Barbary Corsairs cost 180 coin and give 18 XP when trained or killed. Although not listed in the patch notes, the Barbary Corsair in-game model was updated.
In-game dialogue[]
The Barbary Corsair and the Buccaneer Captain speak Kabyle language.
Select 1Ajuoh
Select 2Wejdah - Ready
Select 3Achu tevghid or Achu tevRid
Move 1Eih (ⵉⵀ) - Yes
Move 2Asili
Move 3Akrivmen
Attack 1As dam
Attack 2A machawer
Attack 3Eh, sidi! - Yes, sir!
History[]
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The Barbary Corsairs were pirates and privateers that raided trade routes and plundered cities on the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years. If they had a capitol, it was Algiers - a city captured by the Barbary pirates under their leader Kair Ad Din, more commonly known as Barbarossa. The corsairs had defended Algiers from the Spanish, but turned on the ruler and claimed the city for themselves.
The Corsairs sailed sleek Galleys, crewed by slaves who rowed and were meant only for short voyages of no more than six or eight weeks. Janissaries accompanied the crews and boarded enemy ships. The reign of the Barbary Corsairs ended in the first half of the nineteenth century when the growing pressure and assault on the pirate states from Europe and Ottoman forces shut down or took control of the Barbary Coast.
Liberation March
Fencing School
Outlaw Combat
Feudal Armies
Loyal Warriors
Western Reforms
Acupuncture
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints
Dutch States Army
Ignatian Spirituality
16 Barbary Corsairs
Wanderlust
Royal Fencing School
Improved Mercenaries
Adler von Lübeck
TEAM Scout Infantry
Sahelian Kingdoms
Road Building
Couriers
TEAM Inca Bridges
Dravidian Martial Arts
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
Zamindars
Infantry Hitpoints
Schiavoni Swords
Onin War
Bakufu
Moccasins
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
Squires
TEAM Mariachi
Colegio de San Nicolás
National Servant
Bastimento
Pok Ta Pok
Matrakci School
Ottoman Mercenary Army
Ransack
Dueling School
TEAM Hand Infantry Attack
Archaic Infantry Hitpoints
Archaic Infantry Combat
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
Hand Infantry/Hand Cavalry Attack
TEAM House of Bernadotte
German Mercenary Contracts
United States Army
Poker
Indiana Mobilization
Hamilton's Own
Age of Empires III[]
