The Asian Dynasties - 2nd Expansion for Age of Empires III

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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties

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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is the upcoming second expansion pack to the award-winning Age of Empires III being developed by Ensemble Studios, developer of Age of Empires III; and Big Huge Games, developer of Rise of Nations. Besides the New World, players will now get to play in Asia as well. The three Asian civilizations will have 15 new wonders, which will be the equivalent of aging up for the European civilizations. The game will also have three new campaigns consisting of five scenarios each, each campaign focusing on one of the new Asian civilizations. The game will be released on October 23, 2007, around the tenth anniversary of the first installment of the Age of Empires series.

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There will be three new civilizations being added in the expansion.

* India — Has no villager cards, but gets one villager with each shipment. All non-shipped villagers will cost wood instead of food. From the military standpoint, there will be several different types of War Elephants, including the Mahout, along with Sepoys as an infantry unit, and artillery units such as cannon mounted elephants. Their wonders will be the Agra Fort, the Taj Mahal, the Karni Mata, the Tower of Victory and the Charminar Gate. One of India's monks will ride an elephant and heal units in combat.
* China — Has migration cards that allows them to spawn one villager at each town center and village (Chinese house). Only gets one monk to start with. According to some screenshots, the Chinese will be specialized in ballistic and artillery, with units including the Chu-ko-nu (also seen from Age of Empires II), Manchu cavalry and riflemen, and a flamethrower unit. The Chinese will also have a higher population limit than all the other civilizations. It is confirmed that they will not be able to train individual units, but instead, "Banner Armies", from the War Academy, which is a combination of the Barracks, the Stable, and the Artillery Foundry. Banner Armies are a combination of two different units in one package. The "Old Han Army" is a combination of Qiang Pikemen and Chu Ko Nu archers.
* Japan — Can only ship a 2 villager card in the first age, but can send it twice. They also have the Hatamoto Samurai, a very powerful samurai unit that commands other units. They also have the Daimyo unit, which is like a walking Fortress, in the fact that it can continually train troops and artillery during battle. They cannot gather food via herding or hunting, but build shrines around huntable and herdable animals to gain a food trickle, they may still fish. Their wonders are the Great Buddha, the Toshogu Shrine, the Golden Pavilion, the Torii Gates and the Shogunate, which grants the player a Daimyo. As a special advantage, most cards in the Japanese Home City may be sent twice. They have expensive but powerful military units, the backbone of their armies is the Samurai unit.

Each Asian civilization will have monks instead of explorers. Both Japan and India start with two. Monks do not have any snipe abilities, but can stun treasure guardians and most have powerful martial arts attacks. Each new civilization will have the ability to build a consulate to form alliance with European powers and exchange exports. It is also known that the Japanese Monks can build shrines.

The expansion will also feature water treasures, which can only be gathered by naval units.

Minor Civilizations

There will be six new minor natives added in the expansion.

Three of them are Sufi,Shaolin,Jesuits

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Screen Shot

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Campaigns

There will be three campaigns in The Asian Dynasties, one for each new civilization. Each campaign will consist of five scenarios. The Chinese campaign will give hint to 1421 hypothesis and will be about a Chinese treasure ship discovering the New World before Christopher Columbus. The Japanese campaign will focus on the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate where the player will control the Tokugawa Shogun in around the 17th Century. The Indian campaign will be about the Sepoy Rebellion of the 19th Century. It is confirmed that the hero for the Indian campaign will be a character named "Nanib", who is first allied with the British East India Company, but slowly becomes disillusioned from its cruel ways and joins the rebels instead, similar to Chayton Black's situation in "The Warchiefs" campaign: "Shadow".

New Maps

The only new confirmed maps so far are Himalayas, Ceylon, Mongolia, Yellow River, Deccan, Honshu, the Silk Road, Indochina, and Malta.

Wonders

In the Asian Dynasties, Asian civilizations must build Wonders to advance from age to age. It is known that the Japanese wonders grant things when they are built. There will be a total of 15 wonders, 5 for each civilisation. These are:

Indian

* Agra Fort: A powerful fortress available to the Indians. It has a range attack.
* Taj Mahal: Initiates a "cease fire" to prevent combat for a period of time.
* Karni Mata: Provides a gather bonus to all nearby villagers.
* Tower of Victory: has a powerful "Inspiration" ability, which increases Attack, HP, and Speed of all military units temporarily.
* Charminar Gate: Allows the training of special higher-ranking "Mansabdar" versions of normal units. Mansabdars have twice the hit points of normal units and provide an attack and hit-point boost to nearby units of the same type.

Japanese

* Toshogu Shrine: Enhances other Japanese Shrines and acts as a shrine itself. Grants 800 Export.
* Great Buddha: Provides the player with an "Informer" to see all enemy line of sight for a short amount of time. Grants 5 Naginata Riders.
* Golden Pavilion: Choose a bonus to military units. Contains Advanced Arsenal techs. Grants 8 Yumi Archers.
* The Shogunate: Military units train faster and cost less. Grants 1 Daimyo unit and 600 XP.
* Torii Gates: Gain experience equal to 150% of current experience earned. Grants 6 Samurai units.

Chinese

* Temple of Heaven: Heals all of the player's units on the map. Also gives the monk a Healing ability.
* Porcelain Tower: Generates the player's choice of food, wood, coin, or a small trickle of all resources, including experience and export points.
* Confucian Academy: Autospawns Flying Crow Artillery Unit.
* Summer Palace: Autospawns the player's choice of Banner Armies.
* White Pagoda: Increases the attack and hit points of the Chinese monk and his disciples, as well as increases the amount of disciples he can train.

[DJ.Parker]

ela ne:D requirements monada?

[DJ.Parker]

mucho screenshots wala resolution podi karala danawada pls?:D

[hul2000]

ela ne:D requirements monada?

I think it's the same as Age of Empires III.

[hul2000]

mucho screenshots wala resolution podi karala danawada pls?:D

OK. I edited it.:)

[sakala]

wow... cool news :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[hul2000]

GamePlay Movie

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Official Trailer

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[Nash']

wow!! fatta fatta!!
wen i c da screenshot...it seems lyk itz no diffrnt dan aom 3...
ryt???
same lukn bulidings ...enviroments and all.....

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More SceenShots

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[mahendra@etf]

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[hul2000]

wow!! fatta fatta!!
wen i c da screenshot...it seems lyk itz no diffrnt dan aom 3...
ryt???
same lukn bulidings ...enviroments and all.....

It has some changes. New Buildings, Units etc.

It's an expansion. Microsoft wont change much of the game until the next version (AOE IV)

[hul2000]

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