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Age of Empires III

Full FAQ/Guide
Written by Michael Ye (Yeasty)
[email protected]
Version 0.3
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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to my pride and joy, something that I personally have spent
multiple weeks to make, something that I hope will be the ultimate
Age of Empires 3 guide. Now, this is the first FAQ that I am writing,
so don't hurt me.
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LEGAL INFORMATION

-=Copyrights=-

This list is copyrighted by me, and I don't care who uses it, as long
as someone doesn't profit from it. Contact me if plan to use it, as I
want to keep track of who has one.

PURPOSE
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Gamers like games, and like a lot of people, they run to someone else
when they have a problem, now that's where I come in. I help people
through those difficult spots as well as entertain those people who
simply likes to read.

RULES FOR SUBMISSION
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Feel free tell me anything that I may have missed on my countless
playthroughs of the game (though not likely) but also inform me of
any suggestions.

A) Be polite and make your point clearly, and I might just take your
suggestions seriously.

B) I'm a busy person, and you should fell lucky that I took time to
write this, so don't send anything which might offend me.
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GAME INFORMATION

This is next anticipated game from the Age of Empires series, Age of
Empires III places players in the time period of roughly 1500-1850,
picking up roughly where Age of Empires II left off. In this game,
players take on the role of a European empire which seeks to colonize
and conquer the new world.

Age of Empires III introduces exciting new system of home cities.
Players have all new civilizations to play as, random maps to play
on, and a single-player
campaign which is much improved. Players will also find that graphics
is also much improved.
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CAMPAIGNS
All Campaign levels in this FAQ are based on the Medium difficulty. I
only give brief outlines about what you need to do to complete the
objectives to allow you to experience to game for yourself, you wont
learn unless you try things for yourself.

ACT 1: BLOOD
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MISSION 1: BREAKOUT

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Defend the Fort Command Post

This is the first level of the game and already they are throwing you
in the deep end, but don't worry since all you have to do is defend
colony against seemingly endless waves of janissaries, and later
bombards. Your colony should already be established, so all you need
to concentrate on is military micromanagement. First thing to do is
to upgrade your outposts into frontier outposts and produce lots of
crossbowmen and since you need a lot of them, you should also upgrade
them to veteran status. The janissaries should fall pretty quickly,
but soon the Ottomans should be sending up cavalry, you could train
pikemen to counter them, but if you're like me, simply focus all
crossbowmen on single targets until they are all dead. Once the
cavalry are dead, the ottomans will send up great bombards and you
will receive your next mission.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Use Settlers to gather the wood on the hill to
light the signal fire

Alright, the great bombards are demolishing your colony and you have
no hope of defeating them with crossbowmen so you must run to
superior officer for reinforcements. To call Alain, you must send
settlers to gather wood on top of a hill, since you don't have a town
center to train settlers with, you will have to send those settlers
gathering from the mill since you probably already have enough food
to last you the rest of the game. The Ottomans sees this coming and
sends up 4 janissaries to stop you, counter them however you wish,
just make sure that all the wood is collected.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Destroy all the Great Bombards

This objective pretty much explains itself, all you have to do is to
send to new cavalry you just got to the bombard and let them do what
they are good at, nothing hard about this at all.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Collect all the Treasures on the map (300 XP)

Very simple, send someone around to collect any treasure that you
see, use a settler for this, Morgan's combat skills are too valuable.

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MISSION 2: INTO THE CAVES

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Defend the base from the Ottoman attack

This is the second level and at the start your colony is under attack
from janissaries, this is a very simple objective and simply requires
you to kill all those janissaries. Move the great bombard forward and
bombard those janissaries while backing up your crossbowmen with
Alain and Morgan as well as anything else that is able to fight, as
soon as all the janissaries are dead, this objective is complete.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Destroy all the Ottoman Weapon caches

This objective will have you attempting to drive the Ottoman out of
Malta, they will leave once you destroy their precious weapons. You
will need to destroy 8 weapon caches, 1 outside and 7 inside the
cave, but to get inside, you will need to go through their base and
the only way that can happen is if its completely destroyed.  First
you will need to do what you need to do to build your base, once you
get your economy stabilized, build an artillery foundry and train
lots of hoop throwers because they are very effective. Once you have
a reasonable army, rush their base with everything you got, their
base will fall very quickly, leaving the entrance to the cave clear
to send your men through. After this part, it will be a simple matter
of moving whatever you have through the cave and destroying
everything that belongs to the Ottomans along the way.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Claim the nearby Treasure (300 XP)

You will receive this objective when you discover the treasure just
north of your base.  This is a very simple objective, probably the
easiest objective there is in this game. This simply requires that
you take Morgan up to the treasure to the north of your base, kill
the guardians and claim the treasure, very easy experience to be
gained.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Find a Shipwreck and gather any supplies near it
(300 XP)

You will receive this objective when you discover the shipwreck. This
sounds easy enough but I can't seem to get it to work. I took some
settlers, collected all the supplies near it but cant seem to be able
to complete the objective.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Build an Artillery Foundry and train at least 10
Hoop Throwers (500 XP)

You should have completing this objective along the mission anyway so
you should have no trouble. You should be doing this even if this
wasn't an actual objective that you need to complete.

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MISSION 3: PIRATES!

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Build a Town Center

After that brief cut scene, you now have to go to America to find the
lake of the moon, you met some pirates on the way and now you're your
ship is damaged so you have to land and build a base to kill some
pirates. Yes, someone is going to die today, but first you must build
your base, the first part is that you get a covered wagon, you may or
may not have seen these before, but they build town centers, so use
it to build a town center wherever you see a clear piece of land.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Build a Barracks and a Dock

Now that you got your town center you need troops if you want to kill
some pirates. Before you do this however, you need to get your
economy going, get some settlers on food, wood and gold while at the
same time to use your troops to explore the rest of the island and
kill any pirates or natives that you come across. Once you feel that
your economy can support an army, then build one, but to complete
this objective just build a barracks and a dock.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Find and collect three Navigation Charts

This is the part of the mission that you have to kill a lot of
pirates, before you take on the main pirate base to get their piece
of the map, you may want to collect the other two pieces first, so
that this mission is easier and also you get the help of any treasure
you collect along the way. Start with the island just to the south of
the one you start on, then move to the one on the bottom of the map,
eventually coming around to the large island in the middle of the
map. By doing it this way, you can rush to the pieces of the map and
finish the mission instead of having to completely demolish the
pirate base, I find this mission quite annoying.

SECONARY OBJECTIVE: Build a second Town Center (200 XP)

You will receive this objective when you when you find a covered
wagon, the covered wagon is in the form of treasure on the island
just to the south of the island you start on, try to build this town
center somewhere useful like the pirate island where you can have
easy access to troops for when you have to tear their base down.

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MISSION 4: THE OTTOMAN FORT

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Build a Town Center

You got past the pirates and landed on land in America chasing the
Turks and going to find the lake, the Turks have beaten you here and
constructed a fort. You will worry about them later, but first you
must get your colony started. You started with a covered wagon along
with some settlers, get the wagon to build a town center.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Go to the Home City and send a Shipment

This is the first mission that you get the advantage of being able to
use the home city, but because you cant do anything to your home city
at the end of earlier levels, you wont have any good card, but for
this mission it doesn't really matter. Go to your home city and
select the settler shipment since you need to get your economy going
and your base started really fast, once the shipment arrives, you
will receive your next objective.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Find and ally with at least two local Natives

This mission certainly teaches you a lot of things about how this
game works but you should already know how to ally with the natives.
There are three native villages on this map, but you only have to
ally with two. I suggest the village right next to your base and the
one to the north west of your base because it will be easier to
defend them if you position your troops carefully, your enemies also
wants to ally with the natives so get to them before they do and
don't let them take more than one village.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Find and destroy the Ottoman Command Post and Town
Center

So you have completed the prior objective to establish a stable
colony and now you can take on a fort. I wont give too much detail,
(I let you make most decisions) but it involves taking a lot of unit
and rushing the fort over and over again until every inside in dead.
This is the kind of objective that you would and done over and over
again in just about every game.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Destroy the ottoman Fishing Dock (500 XP)

You will receive this objective when you discover the dock.
Destroying this building will stop the Turks from getting extra food
from fishing and also it would stop any annoying galleys that they
send to harass you with. The best time to destroy this dock is very
early when the mission just started so that you wont have any galleys
to worry about. There wont be anything to protect it unless you leave
this until late game when they have built galleys.

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MISSION 5: TEMPLES OF THE AZTEC

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Build a Trading Post at the Aztec village

Now you have to find the map to the lake of the moon, you know it is
inside the Aztec city so you must help them if you want to have a
look at it. From the location you start, take a few steps in the only
direction you can and you will see some natives mining gold for the
Spanish, since the Ottomans are defeated, the Spanish are your new
enemies. Kill the Spanish guards and the natives will show you the
way to the Aztec city, make your way to the Aztec city and build a
trading post in it.

PRIMARY OBJECTVE: Build a Town Center

When you have built a trading post, a caravel will come and unload a
covered wagon and some settlers, build a town center at that location
and use your settlers to gather resources, you will need a lot of it
for the next part.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: AT least one Aztec Temple must remain standing

Just as you get your base started, the Spanish launch an all out
assault on the Aztec city, a large Aztec army is on the way but you
will have to defend this city until they arrive. This is what the
main mission is about, the hardest part about this is getting enough
resources to support your army. Your home city could be quite a lot
of help here, until you run out of unit shipments, then you will need
the help of the natives, there are some native prisoners around the
place, and when you rescue them, they become warriors that joins your
cause, using them to supplement your army could help a lot. Once you
got your units and resources problems sorted out, this objective
becomes quite easy, the temples that you have to protect are under
your control so you can repair them if they get damaged, it also
takes quite a lot to destroy one, giving you enough time to move your
army from one temple to another to defend them all.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Find and destroy the Spanish Town Center

Now that the large Aztec army has arrived, it is time to make the
Spanish pay for what they just made you go through. The Spanish will
no longer assault squads to harass you so you can send all your units
to their base and burn it down. You should have done this type of
objective many times before so I'll let you do it yourself.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Save more than one Temple

The primary objective is that you must save at least one temple, this
secondary objective requires that you save at least two temple. Since
this objective is also very easy, if you can save one, you might as
well save them all. It says that you receive reward in the form of
experience or every additional temple that you save, but it didn't
specify exactly how much experience you receive.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Rescue more Aztec prisoners

You will receive this objective when you rescue your first group of
native prisoners excluding the ones that you first come across. When
you receive this objective, all the native prisoners will
automatically light up on your screen, so finding them wont be a
problem. Rescuing native prisoners will also greatly help in your
efforts with defending the Aztec city, just leave a few units behind
when the Spanish attack when you're elsewhere rescuing prisoners.

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MISSION 6: A PIRATE'S HELP

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Earn 8,000 Experience before Lizzie sets sail for
Florida. (500 XP)

In your haste to find the lake of the moon, you became careless and
sailed into a storm, you survived but your ship won't be sailing for
a long, long time but you still want to get to Florida as soon as
possible. So what do you do now? You ask the very person that you
were trying to kill a few days before. But even though that you sank
her useless ships to the bottom of the sea, she still needs you to
prove yourself worthy, now you have to wander on this island looking
for work. What you have to do exactly is stated in the secondary
objectives section, also you will receive not shipment from your home
city for the duration of the level due to you being so far off
course.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Bring Morgan to Lizzie before she sets sail.
You will receive this objective when you have obtained the 8,000
experience points that you needed. Lizzie stands in the same spot
throughout the whole mission so you should have no trouble finding
her, just get there before the timer runs out.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Stop the raiding Native Americans from attacking
the settlers of Havana (350 XP)

You will immediately receive this objective when you start the
mission, you will hear settlers crying for your help, you should then
help them as fast as you can because not only do you receive
experience as the reward, you will also receive half of the building
in that town as well as all the settlers that have not been killed,
that's why you should save them as fast as you can. After the
completion of this objective, you can finally get a base started, you
will need a lot of troops, Carib blowgunners are strong little
things.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Build the first Stable in Havana (500 XP)

You will receive this objective when you receive your base. Morgan
will make a comment on how cavalry are good against blowgunners,
though I find this not entirely true, you should still build a stable
even if it is only for the experience. What I do find good against
blowgunners are hoop throwers, so build a couple of them if you can
afford them.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Reopen trade with the rest of Cuba by building a
second Trading Post (850 XP)

You will also receive this objective when you receive control of your
base. You should complete this objective because of two reasons, one
being that you receive the rather large amount of experience on offer
as the reward and two being that once the trading post is up, you
will continuously receive experience from the trading post. The only
problem that you may come across while completing this objective are
those two groups of Carib blowgunners protecting the trade site, when
there are such large amounts of enemies grouped together, it is
always good to use an attack with an large area on damage, Morgan's
special ability works amazingly effectively and also hoop throwers
also work well. Once the trading post is up, go up the hill just to
the right to receive another easy objective.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Find and gather the stolen gold (900 XP)

You will receive this objective when you discover the stolen gold
just up the hill to the right of the trading post that you had to
build. This is another of those objectives that I just cant seem to
be able to complete when I should have completed it, but at least it
includes free resources, and if you can get it to work, that's
another 900 experience to add toward the total of 8,000.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Return the lost herd to Havana's Livestock Pen
(750 XP)

You will receive this objective when you discover the lost herd of
cows to the bottom of the map. To complete this objective, just
select the cows and send them to the livestock pen, don't worry about
them since nothing can kill them, the worst that can happen is that
the natives recapture them. There is also another way to benefit from
this objective, once the cows are at the livestock pen, you complete
the objective and also can kill them and get fast food.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Take Lizzie's Native friend to his family on the
nearby Island (1000 XP)

Lizzie you give you this objective herself once you built the trading
post so you probably have to do this if you want to ride her ship.
There a canoe to the edge of the map that you will need to get across
the water, but the Carib will start attacking the canoe as soon as
you get close to it, so that them out before they see the canoe. Once
the canoe is in your control, use it cross the river with the native
by and a large army. Once you arrive at the village, you completed
the objective.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Retrieve the stolen Artifact (1500 XP)

You will receive this objective from one of the natives after
returning to boy. There's some pirates just to the south of the
island and they got cannon but this is the most rewarding objective
in the completely pointless mission, you get 1500 XP for completing
this plus another 500 because of the artifact itself. After
completing this objective you are guaranteed to have more that 8,000
points of experience so you can hurry back to Lizzie and get a ride
on her ship.

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Missions 7 and 8 coming soon.

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Acts 2 and 3 Coming soon.

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