Battleship and Privateer not Affected by Mercenary Contractor Bug

Age of Empires III: DE III - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

  • GAME BUILD #: 13.690
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

The battleship and privateer units are not affected by the mercenary contractor age-up. All other upgrades and shipments affect them.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Ship the battleship and/or privateers from the home city
  2. Age up to Imperial with mercenary contractor
  3. Observe the ship stats do not change after ageing up

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

The merc ships should be impacted identically to land merc units, allowing the units to continue to be impactful in Age 5.

:play_button: IMAGE

:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

battleship merc contractor.age3Ysav (5.1 MB)

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Hello @stephensundin , thanks for your report. The Warship provided by the Rule Britannia card does not receive Mercenary buffs by design. This is intended. :+1:

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They do have the mercenary tag though so might be a good design change to just remove that tag from it. I can see it becoming a problem in the future

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They have mercenary tag and should be buffed, please check the buggy code.

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Hello everyone, we’re looking into ways we can buff the unit. :+1: