Settler Wagon

> "*A German villager that is more expensive but gathers faster than a Settler.*"
> ― In-game description.
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The **Settler Wagon** is an economic unit in *Wars of Liberty* that is unique to the Austro-Hungarians and can only be shipped from the Home City until the "Germantown Farmers" Home City Card has been sent, which allows them to be trained at the Mill. It gathers twice as fast than Settlers but also costs wood, uses up two population, and has a much lower train limit. Unlike the French Sans-culottes, Settler Wagons do not replace Settlers.

Settler Wagons construct buildings significantly faster than Settlers. Tasking more than one Settler to build a building only decreases the construction time by 25%, rather than halving it. This means that if players were to use two Settlers to build a building, they would only construct it 33% faster. Settler Wagons, however, construct buildings 100% faster than an ordinary Settler, which means a lot of time is conserved by using a Settler Wagon instead of Settlers to build buildings. Settler Wagons also have a 30% ranged resistance, unlike the usual melee resistance of Settlers, making them more resilient against ranged attacks, but slightly more vulnerable to melee attacks.

In standard random map games, the Austro-Hungarians start with three Settler Wagons instead of Settlers.

## Tactics

Settler Wagons can be assigned with the same tasks as Settlers.

## Further Statistics

 **Sight** |  **Blunderbuss** (+4 line-of-sight)
 **Gathering rate** | For Food Food* **Hunting Dogs** (+10% for huntable animals)
* **Steel Traps** (+20% for huntable animals)
* **Seed Drill** (+15% from Mills/Rice Paddies/Haciendas)
* **Artificial Fertilizer** (+30% from Mills/Rice Paddies/Haciendas)
* **Large Scale Agriculture** (+50% from Mills/Rice Paddies/Haciendas)

For Wood Wood
* **Gang Saw** (+10% Wood gathering)
* **Log Flume** (+20% Wood gathering)
* **Circular Saw** (+30% Wood gathering)
* **Deforestation** (+50% Wood gathering)

For Coin Coin
* **Placer Mines** (+10% gathering from Mines)
* **Amalgamation** (+20% gathering from Mines)
* **Bookkeeping** (+10% from Plantations/Rice Paddies)
* **Homesteading** (+20% from Plantations/Rice Paddies)
* **Refineries** (+30% from Plantations/Rice Paddies)
* **Excessive Taxation** (+50% Coin gathering)

## Home City Cards

As the **Settler Wagon** is a unique Austro-Hungarian unit, only shipments related to the Austro-Hungarians and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Settler Wagon

* **INFINITE** Shipments are highlighted in **Purple**
* **TEAM** Shipments are highlighted in **Green**

### Shared Economic Cards

* "TEAM Pioneers" is available to the Japanese.
* "TEAM Sawmills" is available to the Canadians and French.
* "TEAM Exotic Hardwoods" is available to the Canadians.
* "TEAM Establish Ironmonger" is available to the Ottomans and Spanish.
* "TEAM Silversmith" is available to the Canadians.
* "TEAM Food Silos" is available to the Austro-Hungarians, Canadians, Germans, and Haudenosaunee.
* "TEAM Furrier" is available to the Canadians, Danes, Haudenosaunee, Russians, and Tupi.
* "TEAM Spice Trade" is available to the Canadians and Dutch.
* "TEAM Rum Distillery" is available to the British, Canadians, and Haitians.
* "TEAM Medicine" is available to the Haudenosaunee, Indians, and Tupi.

## History

*Prairie Schooners and Conestoga Wagons were two types of covered wagons used by settlers and pioneers to cross the early frontiers of North America. Prairie Schooners were lighter and needed two or four horses or oxen to pull them. Conestoga Wagons were big, heavy wagons that needed teams of six or eight to pull them along. Before railroad tracks crisscrossed the Great Plains, Conestoga Wagons hauled most of the freight that went back and forth between the east and west coasts. Conestoga Wagons originated in a German area of Pennsylvania.*