Age of Empires 3 Cheats and Hints

The strength of the Dutch civilization is regarded, almost falsely, as being economical on the basis that they have banks. However, banks are extremely expensive early in the game and the game needs to last for them to have any worthwhile effect. Dutch settlers cost coin, which is gathered less quickly than food, and most other civilizations have economic bonuses that let them produce more or better settlers. The bank advantage can be quite useful in longer games, but few games last for a Dutch player to reap those benefits.

Many games can and will be decided in the Colonial Age, making the army line-up of the Dutch in that period well worth a look. The Dutch lack both crossbowmen and musketeers, and have no unique Colonial Age units—unless you count the skirmisher. Having the skirmisher, an anti-infantry unit one age earlier, is a more subtle bonus, but a potentially powerful one. If your micromanagement skills are good, they combat effectively any unit, including cavalry and early artillery.

[This article is written by SoggyFrog and found on TTA]

Dutch are not the best civilization in the game but there may be some hidden infomation that you might not know about them. Perhaps Dutch can be also playable as French. Who knows? In this article, you can find pretty much detailed info about Dutch. Basically, Jasper is talking about following things. And he did a good job writing this article.

• Historical background information about the Dutch military units in AOE3


• Unavailable regular units


• Available regular units
  
  
  
  • “Prinsenvlag” (Prince Flag)
  
  
  • The Hussars
  
  
  • The Grenadiers
  
  
  • The Skirmishers
  
  
  • The Artillery


• Unique Dutch Military Units
  
  
  
  • The “Ruyter”
  
  
  • The Nassau Halberdier


• Naval warfare
  
  
  • The Fluyt

It is much on historical than units stat in the game. But it is a great article and still worth reading. This article is written by Jesper van den Berg (aka gorbag orc) and can be read here. (Link)

Is it available now? Here's what I found.

We have been hard at work getting ESO up to speed for all of our fans. We apologize for any inconvenience you have had while we work on the servers. Our team has been hard at work on a new patch and we will have it for you in the near future. We are looking at

Hardware Compatibility Issues
Sound Stuttering Issues
Fixes for Direct3D
Stability and Crash Issues
Hotkey Editor
We will post more information in the Game Updates section soon.

I think we will soon get the update. Stay tuned.

Here's the link to AOE3 manual at MFO. It is a 16 page mini guide. You can download it as a PDF file, too.

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/AOE3Manual/HTML2/default.htm

The following units stats are written by dustin_c1

http://www.onlinedesert.com/test/aoe3/aoe3unitstats.html

These unit sheets are created dynamically from game data taken from game files. There may still be bugs in the flash object and I may have misinterpreted some of the game data. The game data, this font and most of the images used here are pulled from game files using ykkrosh's AOE3ED program. (Link)

***Open in IE. Firefox doens't work well.

Table-1 Favourite civilizationss of the top 100 players

French	44
Ottoman	24
German	12
Spanish	9
Russia	5
Dutch	3
British	3 (none in the top 50)
Portugese	0! (Highest rated is #219)

Table-2 Ranked by winning percentage overall on ESO

Ottoman	57.18%
French	55.47%
Russia	52.77%
German	51.19%
Dutch	48.63%
Portugese	47.68%
Spanish	42.99%
British	41.94%