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A fully playable version of Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties was presented at The Game Convention at Leipzig. A guest at the convention posted complete unit stats for TAD on a German website.
These unit stats were taken from a Heaven Games translator, who translated it from German. The page where these unit stats were originally posted is here.
INDIA
You start with 2 explorers, both of which look the same and sit on an elephant. They look very cute, especially when the mount dies. Every hero has its own name, less HP than the european one and a special ability the all new heroes have:
A stunning blow. With it, one treasure guardian can be shortly stunned and meanwhile kill the other, so that you can take treasures easier. This ability reloads itself very fast, I estimate it takes about 35 seconds, so it's relatively strong.
The Indian villagers cost wood. They need 6 villagers on wood for constant villager production. This requires lots of changes of your playstyle, especially on maps like Great Plains, where there is practically no wood nearby.
There are no villager shipments for India, but they get a free villager with every shipment, regardless of age. The economy is relatively good, as far as our tests can say. Then we have the Indian units, I've listed all normal productable units.
MR = Melee Resistance
RR = Ranged Resistance
MDam = Melee damage
RDam = Ranged Damage
R = Range
Barracks:
Rajput
100 Food, 35 Wood, 1 pop, 150HP, 0,2MR
18 MDam 3x vs Cav. 2,3x vs Light Infantry
20 Siege damage
-Practically the pikeman of India, I think is ok, kills cav pretty well, is not so good vs buildings
Sepoy
90 Food 30 Gold 1 Pop 190 Hp 0,2 MR
15 MDam 3x vs Cav. 2,3x vs Light infantry
25 RDam 12 R
22 Siege damage
-The musketeer of India, more expensive than the normal musketeer, but also almost as good as Janissary, is quite strong in my opinion.
Gurkha
70 Food 50 Coin 1 Pop 115 Hp 0,3 RR
6 MDam 2x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x Light Cavalry
16 RDam 18 R 2x vs Heavy Inafntry 1,5x vs Light Cavalry
12 Siege damage
-A 2nd age skirmisher o_O
Stable:
Sowar
80 Food 80 Coin 2 Pop 225 Hp 0,3 RR
20 MDam 1,5x vs Infantry 0,7x vs Heavy Infantry
15 Siege damage
-Very interesting, we're going to see more of these: Attack bonus vs skirm-type units and a negative bonus vs those, who they're not supposed to counter, aka. Heavy infantry. Camel riders.
Zamburak
60 Food 60 Coin 1 Pop 120 Hp 0,3 RR
15 RDam 12 R 4x vs Cav. 0,5x vs Villagers
8 Siege damage
-A nice and cheap dragoon variant, that won't stand long vs skirms, but counters cav EXTREMELY well.
Mahout
400 Food 250 Wood 7 Pop 1100 Hp 0,3 RR
33 MDam 2 Splash 2x vs Infantry 0,5x vs Heavy Infantry 0,5x vs Villagers
120 Siege damage
-A new cuirassier, with splash damage, good damage and max. Hp. Weaker vs heavy infantry aka. muskets. An ELEPHANT ^^
Howdah
250 Food 350 Coin 7 Pop 800 Hp 0,2 RR
RDam 90 16 R 2,3x vs Cav. 1,8x vs Artillery 0,5x vs Villagers
60 Siege damage
-A new and upgraded War Wagon with a MEGA DAMAGE vs cavalry, but also very expensive and pop intensive. Another ELEPHANT.
Castle:
Flail Elephant
100 Food 200 Coin 4 Pop 200 Hp 0,75 RR
14 MDam 2 Splash 0,5x vs Villagers 1,5x vs Infantry 0,7x vs Heavy Infantry 4x vs Artillery
140 Siege damage
-Mixture between (melee) Culverin and cavalry.
Siege Elephant
300 Wood 400 Gold 7 Pop 700 Hp 0,3 RR
40 RDam 1 Splash 28 R 0,5x vs Cav. 10x vs Buildings 8x vs Ships 2,5x vs Artillery
-A cannon with lots of hitpoints and in ELEPHANT form, looks great, a cannon on the back of the elephant ^^
JAPANESE
Also here you start with same-looking heroes, who don't have mounts though, but a very stylish bow and make some sounds when they attack. Also the Japanese heroes have the stunning blow for better creeping. The villagers cost food, although there is a speciality in their economy: the Japanese can't e.g. hunt. This is why they have an orchard travois at the beginning, that can change into a cherry orchard. 5000 food can be gathered raid-free from it - the gather rate isn't known. They have villager cards, but the villager limit is at 75 vills. Where do the rest of the resources come from? The Japanese houses, also known as shrines, produce resources - you can decide, which. When you build all houses in the middle of a herd, the animals graze around the houses for more food than if the shrine was in the middle of nowhere. A good house placement is required from the start.
Then we come to the Japanese units:
Barracks:
Yumi Archer
35 Food 50 wood 1 Pop 100 Hp 0,3 RR
7 MDam 1,5x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Cavalry
19 RDam 18 R 1,5x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Cavalry
9 Siege damage
-Practically a crossbow with an attack bonus, looks pretty good. Unfortunately the rate of fire is unknown.
Ashigaru - Musketeer
80 Food 40 Gold 1 Pop 170 Hp 0,2 MR
10 MDam 3,5x vs Cav. 2x vs Light Infantry
26 RDam 12 R
21 Siege damage
-Those guys are sooo cool, don't know why but they own, Japanese Muskets, good stats
Samurai
100 Food 100 Gold 2 Pop 230 Hp 0,3 MR
25 MDam 1 Splash 1,8x vs Cav. 0,5x vs Villagers 1,4x vs Light Infantry
67 Siege damage
-Available in second age, pretty much a doppelsöldner, only that they are fast I think, they have 4.5. speed in my opinion. They do very good in fight, against pikes for instance.
Stable:
Naginata Rider
100 Food 100 Gold 2 Pop 300 Hp 0,3 RR
28 MDam 1,5x vs Infantry 0,7x vs Heavy Infantry
22 Siege damage
- Evil guy, that owns strelets but loses vs muskets, very nice Mr. Naginata.
Yakusame
60 Food 150 Gold 2 Pop 240 Hp 0,5 RR
9 RDam 18 R 8x vs Artillery 3,5x vs Cav.
15 Siege damage
-A very good cannon counter, that also kills cav. Has an incredibly high resistance. o_O
Castle:
Flaming Arrow
100 Wood 300 Gold 4 Pop 175 Hp 0,75 RR
75 RDam 2 Splash 28 R 3x vs Infantry 2x vs Buildings 5x vs Ships
-A very crazy cannon type, that shoots burning arrows... GG Longbows and buildings ^^
Morutaru
100 Wood 250 Gold 3 Pop 225 Hp 0,75 RR
285 RDam 1 Splash 40 R 0,5x vs Ships
This mortar shoots regularly as far as the Portuguese mortar with an upgrade o_O, in short: Roxxors
CHINESE
As the Chinese only have one hero, this is a hand to hand fighter but very fast and has also the stunning blow. You also get a Disciple that can heal, a kind of monk. The villagers cost food and they can build 100 villagers as usual. There is a new thing with their houses though: every house (village) costs 200 wood and provides 20(?) pop space, you can build 6 of these villages and with technologies for wood (200w), pop capacity of each village can be risen to 5. This means that in the end the Chinese can have 220 pop space.
The Chinese need that, because they can only have trash units - quantity over quality, not unlike the Russians. Then they have another speciality: they can't build single units, but only so-called armies. You mostly receive 2 types of units at the same time, so that e.g. as Chinese you can't spam only one unit type. You have always have 2 unit types - which is actually quite good, since the armies complement each other well.
In practice, one pays 450 resources and gets 3 pikes and 3 xbows for it. There are only two military buildings, with Stable and Barracks combined in a War Academy and there's still the fort.
Unit listing:
Chu Ko Nu
85 Food 1 Pop 90 Hp 0,2 RR
6 MDam 2x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Cavalry
5 RDam 16 R 2x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Cavalry
3 Siege damage
Shoots several arrows per shooting sequence
-I think a super unit, if you can control them well, then you can, I believe, kill pretty much all HI no matter how many is coming. They also have no aiming time.
Qing Pike
60 wood 1 Pop 110 Hp 0,1 MR
8 MDam 3x vs Cav. 2,3x vs Light Infantry
34 Siege damage
-The pikeman of the Chinese, with more siege but less damage vs cavalry than a regular pikeman.
Steppe Rider
85 Gold 1 Pop 150 Hp 0,3 RR
15 MDam 2x vs Infantry 0,5x vs Heavy Infantry 2x vs Villagers
25 Siege damage
-Again a bonus vs skirm type units and a negative bonus vs muskets, but has an attack bonus against villagers and is available in second age. A bit weaker oprichnik in 2nd age.
Keslik
115 Food 1 Pop 100 Hp 0,3 RR
8 RDam 12 R 3x vs Cav. 0,5x vs Villagers
-A small dragoon in 2nd age for the Chinese with a quite ok damage.
Changdao
95 Food 1 Pop 144 Hp 0,2 MR
15 MDam 2x vs Cav. 1,5x vs Light Infantry
25 Siege damage
-Finally! A melee cavalry that's also strong vs other cavalry, I find that very interesting.
Arquebusier
85 Gold 1 Pop 116 Hp 0,3 RR
6 MDam 2x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Infantry
16 RDam 20 R 2x vs Heavy Infantry 1,5x vs Light Infantry
10 Siege damage
-A "rifle rider" with an attack bonus against heavy infantry and vs light infantry, but not against other cav.
Hand Mortar
50 Food 90 Wood 1 Pop 100 Hp 0,65 RR
20 RDam 34 R 1 Splash 4x vs Buildings 2x vs Ships 2x vs Artillery
-A lighter version of the Light Cannon, because they lack the bonus vs Infantry and also doesn't counter other cannons well, but is strong against buildings.
Iron Flail
240 Food 2 Pop 350 Hp 0,3 RR
22 MDam 1 Splash 1,5x vs Infantry 0,7x vs Heavy Infantry
20 Siege damage
-Practically a rodelero with an attack bonus vs skirms and a negative bonus vs muskets ^^
Meteor Hammer
175 Gold 2 Pop 200 Hp 0,3 RR
34 MDam 2x vs Artillery
15 Siege
-A melee unit for countering cannons... not so great imo
Flamethrower
170 wood 170 Gold 4 Pop 210 Hp 0,65 RR
5 RDam 1 Splash 6x Infantry 4x Buildings 2x Artillery 6x Ships 0,8x Cav. 0,6x vs Light Infantry
-These things are actually only stylish, they shoot a long firestream on units and when they die, they explode. In short: rock vs infantry.
The list of armies:
War academy:
Old Han Army
225 Food 180 wood 6 Pop
3 Chu Ko Nu + 3 Qiang Pike
-I find them very good, has good xbows with meatshield for cav delivered at the same time ^^
Standard Army
255 Food 170 Gold 5 Pop
3 Chu Ko Nu + 2 Steppe Rider
-Ranged infantry and melee cavalry is actually always a good combo, I find this army also quite good
Ming Army
345 Food 120 wood 5 Pop
2 Qiang Pikeman + 3 Keslik
THE anti-cav army. Two of them and all Spanish FF lancers are history.
Territorial Army
285 Food 255 Gold 6 Pop
3 Changdao + 3 Arquebusier
-Hmm... an army vs Heavy infantry but also against light cavalry and normal cavalry... so Dr Oetker (a German company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, frozen pizza and pudding), a bit of everything but nothing too shabby.
Forbidden Army
480 Food 350 Coin 8 Pop
2x iron Flail + 2 Meteor Hammer
-A very good army vs infantry
Imperial Army
480 Food 255 Gold 7 Pop
3 Arquebusier + 2 Iron Flail
-Again an anti-infantry army, actually pretty strong.
Castle
Black Flay Army
170 wood 425 Gold 7 Pop
3 Arquebusier + 1 Flamethrower
-And another vs heavy infantry^^
Mongolian Army
495 Food 270 wood 7 Pop
3 Keslik + 3 Hand Mortar
-A siege plus anticav in cavalry form. We'll see where that can be used.
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