I recently made this for a friend's birthday. We haven't been playing much recently, but back when we did he used to main Dutch and would often go for mercenary builds. I thought you folk might enjoy this !

I miss it.

I remember some time ago that I downloaded and played a modded or fanmade AoE3 base game with added civs but I can't find anything resembling it online. does anyone know anything about it or can give me pointers in the right direction?

Feels like AOE's II Hd and DE is way harder than III's orginial and DE. Is there a way to improve this, or is the game forever cooked?

Independence Mode gave us a mode with no cards (technically a few cards, just automatic and pre sent). How would you feel about a mode being able to send ALL the cards? And to help speed things up, the experience curve never goes up, so shipments are plentiful and comes blazing fast, especially by late game.

And to expand on that, maybe even ALL the Age Up options. Italians can get both strong Mercenaries AND Leonardo's Tank (and maybe even make it replaceable) for example. Aztecs can have super strong eco, defensive buildings, and War Chief. Federal Americans can have all types of additional card interactions from their States. Asians can build (and rebuild) all Wonders (and by extention, Factories and Forts can be rebuilt by everyone too).

And to go further, card and techs that replaces units simply adds the units without taking existing ones away.

And to go even further, ALL Revolts are available, like they just come with being in the Industrial Age (or whatever Age it unlocks at). There probably needs to be a new card UI for this, cause Mexicans alone have like seven separate decks.

And if I may be so bold, make map Mercenaries and Outlaws available AND viable for everyone even in the late game.

And for added debauchery and excess, make all cards that can be renewed in Imperial infinite, so you can keep sending any and all resource and unit shipments. (Might want to cap Nuestras Señoras at twice though in the name of balance, or not in the name of fun.)

A settler wagon (German), a coureur de bois, a Cree coureur de bois (from the settlement next to my camp) and a classic settler. All possible at the same time, thanks to the United States. Not being political here, but couldn't help but notice how beautiful it looks together.

P.S. Still lost to French AI in skirmish mode : (

On the pic there are 3 similar units, same roles, same price (200 resources). That means they perform the same? Their stats are different, but are the end results the same?

A Russian Cossack is 25% cheaper. That means a Russian Cossack is 75% of a Hussar?

The Hospitaller and the Doppelsoldner cost the same. That means they perform roughly the same, more or less? The Rodelero costs half, so that means each Rodelero is half a Hospitaller?

Are there units that given their price, perform significantly better or significantly worse than units of the same price?

They costs coin and so much pop (therefore extra wood and also face the hard cap of 200). What's the point? Is there some amazing strat I'm missing that makes them super good to mass????

it seems impossible, fal revolution + tanky musk, seems impossible to stop , I remember seeing pro team matches in lion hearts channel, even pro cant beat this shit.

are devs dead?

Just hypothetically because I'm doing a Pacific DLC what-if.

It seems to be that when this topic is brought up people here will usually say "but they're primitive."

However, AOE3 has always centered around European colonization and usually adds either colonial empires or people that fought those empires, hence the addition of the "primitive" native American civs.

I think a Pacific DLC would be an interesting addition as it could come with lots of new maps, and I read that they were already intending for Australian themed maps.

I've played a couple of treaty games with the French and they always seem to revolt, causing them to not collect resources anymore and get steamrolled instantly.

idk new game modes dont be should be locked behind dlc :c

Im a veteran player and im looking for tipps and tricks for the us civ. Im playing mostly 20 min treaty or rush on competive maps.
Atm im playing german mercs. Would appreciate some insights from strong US players for must have cards and tactics you always use.
Thanks a lot.

Estoy sufriendo un cierre instantáneo en Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition justo después de la reciente actualización del 20 de octubre. Al hacer clic en el botón verde de "Jugar" en steam, el estado cambia a "Iniciando" por una fracción de segundo y regresa de inmediato al botón de "Jugar". No se abre ninguna ventana del juego y no se muestra ningún código de error visual.

He probado esto en múltiples capas de traducción (Whisky, Sikarugir y Porting Kit usando tanto Wine 10 como WineCX 24) en Apple Silicon, y el comportamiento es exactamente el mismo en todas.

LastRunWine.log.

Al revisar el archivo de registro LastRunWine.log. el culpable parece ser una nueva llamada de política del sistema introducida en el último parche del ejecutable del juego:
fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod

Dado que Wine devuelve una respuesta no implementada (stub) para esta política de procesos específica de Windows 10/11, el juego ejecuta una autofinalización de seguridad y mata el proceso al instante. Espero respuestas y opiniones, se que somos pocos en la comunidad que emula y juega el juego en Mac, pero espero que pronto algún programador pueda traducir este nuevo parche y así poder jugar de nuevo.

This card has been a crutch for me, as well as berry rich maps (such as Araucania and Nova Scotia - which others are berry rich?).

I find Ethiopians one of the weakest/hardest to play Civs in the games (probably only the Indians are worse), but this card and the right maps are game-changers.

I am talking about Dutch levels of coin in here, as each Berry Bush has 1k coin and in this screenshot alone there are 20 of them. Also, Villagers collect Berries faster than mining, so the coin output here is better than you would get from mines.

Anyway, I am still learning on how to play Ethiopians. Suggestions are welcomed. But I find hard not to bring this card along!

Maybe more a Steam question than here? I play AOE3, but only against the computers. It’s my way of relaxing. I BARELY have the computer power and space to run the game. Last update I could barely get it to install, it takes up most of the remaining space on my very old PC.

Problem is I don’t have warning with these updates, they’re just forced? How do I turn off updates entirely?

Thanks

Just bought the new DLC, more on the pricier side for me, honestly, but loved how Danes had access to elephant troops who spoke horrible Hindustani but were decorated in the Danish livery. And then the Poles. WINGED HUSSARS!!! I have always kept the Winged Hussar shipment in my deck in skirmishes, and they lead the charge (as they should).

However, why doesn't Poland have access to Prussia when revolting? Yes, I do agree they already have quite a lot of options (idk why Hungary tho, tell me), but wasn't Prussia IN Poland? The rulers of Prussia crowned themselves King in Prussia till they had all of it?

usually when there is a glitch it isn't THIS unplayable. It is just units getting stuck or a portrait not showing... but when a sound is glitched in RTS... When it plays important role like signaling when shipment is ready or your unit is being attacked... it is literally and really unplayable. What were devs thinking?!!!!!