Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition – Update 14.3853

General

• Conquistador (Jesuits):
  • Now inflicts 1 area damage with ranged attacks.
  • Siege damage increased to 14 (from 9).
  • Cost changed to 80 food 80 coin (from 85 food 70 wood).
• Dahomey Amazon: Cost reduced to 280c (from 300c).
• Drummer (House of Hanover): No longer affects artillery.
• Light Infantry: Corrected the damage multipliers against Shock Infantry for the following Light Infantry units:
  • Evzone (Houses of Phanar)
  • Lenape Warrior (Lenape)
  • Royal Arquebusier (House of Vasa)
  • Wakina Rifleman (Lakota)
• Red Sea Wagon (Somalis): Can now build Lombards for the Italian civilization.
• Resource Enclosure: Fixed missing damage multipliers against resource enclosures (Depots, Mountain Monasteries, Shrines) for some Villager units.
• Royal Hunter (House of Oldenburg): The military upgrade of the Royal Huntsman can now be trained in batches.
• Royal Dragoon (House of Bourbon):
  • Rate of fire improved to 2.5 (from 2.75) (to reduce the delay of the set-up animation).
  • Ranged damage increased to 18 (from 17.5).
  • LOS corrected to 20 (up from 18).
• Issa Warrior (Somali): Reduced the ranged damage multiplier against Cavalry to 2.5x (from 3x) and against Shock Infantry to 1.9x (from 2.25x).
• Shipments: Corrected the arrival time of several shipments, including all Battleship cards now arrive in 60 seconds (up from 40) as intended.
• Sumatran Elephants (Indonesia Revolution): Now sends a War Elephant the first time the card has been sent, as expected.
• Zapotec Lightning Warrior (Zapotecs): Corrected an issue resulting in units obtained from some cards to have more hitpoints than those available at Zapotec Settlements.

Aztecs

• Eagle Scout: Fixed an issue causing the Imperial Age upgrade to be applied to Eagle Scouts in the Industrial Age.
• Town Center Big Buttons: Lowered the cost of big buttons in the Town Center to be in accordance with the new cost of the Jaguar Prowl Knight.

Dutch

• Dutch States Army (III): Now also makes infinite mercenary cards arrive faster.
• Buckriders (II): Cost reduced to 250c (from 500c).

Ethiopians

• Italian Firearms (IV): Now affects the Sebastopol Mortar as intended.
• Stranger’s Quarters (IV): Is now set to active by default in Post-Imperial games.

Germans

• Prince-Electors (I):
  • Fixed an issue with the Oldenburg Royal Hunter costing no population slot.
  • Fixed an issue with missing unit upgrades that occured when also being allied to German Royal Houses on the map.
  • Allying to the same Royal House on the map and in the Native Embassy will now increase the unit build limit.
  • Costs for Royal Houses alliances removed.

Haudenosaunee

• Aenna: Now shoot arrows faster the closer the target is and ranged attacks benefit from target lock.
• Tomahawk: Improved the projectile release time resulting in earlier attacks.
• 5 Renegade French (IV): Now sends 8 Gendarme Cuirassiers (up from 5).
• 11 Renegade Dutch (IV): Now sends 20 Stadswacht Halberdiers (up from 11), but cost increased to 1500c.
• 22 Lenape Allies (IV): Now arrives in 60 seconds (up from 40) as intended.
• North America Trade (IV): Moved to Age 3.
• Covenant Chain (IV): Cost reduced to 2000c (from 3000c), but now sends 4 Irish Brigadiers (down from 8), 4 Highlanders, 3 Harquebusiers and 2 Heavy Cannons (no changes). The card is now infinite.

Hausa

• Fulani Archer: Damage multiplier versus Heavy Infantry increased to 1.75x (from 1.5x).
• Stranger’s Quarters (IV): Is now set to active by default in Post-Imperial games.

Inca

• Kancha House: Hitpoints decreased to 1600 (from 2000) and costs to 170w (from 180w).
• Monumental Architecture (II): Moved to Age 3.
• Royal Festival (Big Button): This big button delivering 1 Macemen per 4 minutes of game time now costs 250 of each resource (down from 300f 400w 500c).
• Supay Ceremony (IV): Maceman spawn time reduced by roughly -30%.

Indians

• Azap (Ottoman Consulate): Improved the rendering speed of the Azap visuals.
• Dravidian Martial Arts: Fixed an error that granted Sepoys +5% melee damage in the Volley stance.

Italians

• Architect:
  • Hitpoints reduced to 225 (from 275).
  • Initial build limit reduced to 2 (from 5) and now increases by +1 at every age-up.
  • Now builds Outposts in 170 seconds (up from 150), Town Centers in 270 seconds (up from 250), and Walls in 12 seconds (up from 10).

Lakota

• North America Trade (IV): Moved to Age 3.
• Bow Rider:
  • Ranged damage multiplier against villagers reduced to 0.5x (from 0.75x).
  • Made the 1.5x siege damage bonus against Shrines visible by reassigning the bonus to Resource Enclosures.

Maltese

• Sentinel:
  • Hitpoints increased to 155 (from 150).
  • Range increased to 13 (from 12).
  • Melee damage multiplier against cavalry increased to 2.5x (from 2x).
  • Siege damage increased to 18 (from 15).

Mexicans

• Annexation (Baja Revolution): Can now only be sent once.
• Barbacoa (I): Now correctly causes all livestock to fatten more quickly when gathering from a Hacienda.
• Coach Guns (Baja Revolution): Now ships 3 Bandidos and 3 Cuatreros instead of Renegados and Comancheros.
• Criollos (II): Now arrives in 40 seconds (down from 60) as intended.
• Plan of Miramare (IV): Now also increases Bandido range by 2 as intended.

Ottomans

• Azap:
  • Improved the default attack animation.
  • Now benefits from melee resistance in the melee stance.
  • Fixed an issue with Azap’s Stand Ground animations.
• Kapikulu Corps (IV, Palace Intrigue): Cost increased to 2200 food (up from 1400), but now also delivers 5 Spahi (up from 4).
• Matrakci School (II): Replaced the placeholder icon with the correct one.
• Millet System (I): Yörük spawn time reduction decreased to -4s (from -5s).
• Koprülü Viziers (I):
  • Moved to Age 2.
  • Cost increased to 150w (from 125w).
  • Yörük spawn time reduction improved to -6s (from -5s).
• Grand Bazaar (II): Moved to Age 3.

Portuguese

• Starting Crates: Now starts the game with +50 food.
• Constable: Now affects Llaneros (instead of Dragoon Combat).

Spanish

• Peninsular Guerrillas (IV): Now only improves damage for Musketeer-like units by 10% (down from 20%).
• Spanish Square (IV): Corrected an issue that allowed sending this card a second time in the Imperial Age.
• Viceroyalty of New Spain (III): Soldados are now balanced with regular combat values (-10%) and need to be updated manually to Guard and Imperial status in the Hacienda.
  • Note: The Mexico revolution continues to automatically research Guard Soldados.

Swedes

• Starting Resources: Now starts with 150 food (down from 200 food).
• Gustavian Guards (II, Treaty of Roskilde): Cost increased to 1700f (from 1500f).

United States

• Dutch Immigrants (I): Cost reduced to 300c (from 350c)
• French Immigrants (I): Cost reduced to 225w (from 250w)
• Oklahoma Black Mesa (III): Cost reduced to 200w (from 500w)

Investigation

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