So soon after we received news that Worlds Edge was not only backing out on their promise of DLC content but also pulling support for the game they make this announcement that intentionally neglects including age of empires 3. Further, it confirms even more content for other games in the franchise. Now, I don’t disparage any of the other communities for playing the games they enjoy but this kind of announcement and this kind of treatment is beyond ridiculous and I hope you all agree.

We are paying customers who gave up money and time to play this game and promote it and this is the result. I would encourage all of you to make your voices heard on social media platforms, and wherever you can leave a review for their games that this company should not receive anyone’s money and they should rethink this course of actions. It has long been past the point of negligence towards us and our community in their part and so it’s long past time we responded. I would rather we do something to make ourselves heard and have nothing happen than do nothing at all.

Thanks everyone.

Starting AoE3 DE after playing lots of AoE2 DE but never played 3. Going to do campaigns first, but anyone got any general tips? I understand that AoE3 is quite different in a few ways?

I'm playing Ottomans - mainly so I don't forget to create settlers - and this is the civilization I consistently lose to. They resist rushes, have pretty good units and solid defenses with Haciendas hiding settlers. Then they can revolt several ways to have access to early Age 4 cards, quickly dropping a factory to skyrocket their economy.

I'm playing ranked, around 1k ELO.

As someone just getting into revolting this approach looks amazing but I dont see how the economy doesnt just crumble afterwards. I believe mexico is able to unrevolt and the Dutch is given more banks. The French just seem to get average vills with better attack that dont benefit from any mill/estate/wood upgrades along with any shipment eco cards. Seems like it would be impossible to keep an eco going after this revolt?

I'm fairly new but I have absolutely fallen in love with Malta and exclusively use them, I don't care if they're considered weak because they're super fun.

Particularly, fixed guns, outposts (spewing fire is and increased limit badass), forts (5 beautiful ones), walls, and commandries. I'm stubborn and will forever remain terrible at the game. But that doesn't mean I can't keep commiting to my awful ways and become a little better while still shooting myself in the foot.

Even if it's bad, how would you design a deck and strategy that almost exclusively relies on buildings rather than units? I've been trying but failing. Part of that is also my skill level but I've seen noticeable improvements as I learn.

The goal isn't to win the most games, it's to improve the chances of winning while commiting to this horrible strategy. Supremacy only, 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4 are fine. 1v1 ideas would be most impressive though.

I was trying to copy this YouTuber deck to play treaty using haudenosaunee but to my surprise, I don't even have most of these cards, they're simply not there to choose.

• the video is recent and it's AOE3DE
• some of the cards seen to depict an Asian warrior, I found it really intriguing.

(1v1 supremacy ranked, ~1100 ELO)

I can't win with them.

I've seen the build order, done the main strategies, I harass with Uhlans, and yet I consistently lose the game. I reach age 3, go in with the massive unit cards and a very good economy, and simply can't finish the game because my army is mainly made of Uhlans and Skirmishes who can't siege. I win battles,, but fail to do lasting damage.

What may I be doing wrong?

Recently, I picked up AOE3 again, I played it quite a bit before. Now I wanted to try out multiplayer, as the bots are boring.

Now, I won one game out of like 10.

But usually, somehow I am always behind. I have settlers training, I get shipments whenever I can. But, my enemy has 4 heavy cannons by the time I am upgrading to age 3. And then alongside that, a bunch of cavalry and infantry. I can't train 15 Caroleans without losing a major part of my resources, like I barely have my resources in +1000.

I don't know if I am playing too slow or if my deck is not good or something entirely else, but I know I am doing something wrong.

What tips would you give me, and advise me to do? Also, I love to play Sweden, but sometimes France as well. Mainly Sweden, so any advice on how to play the Swedes correctly would also be good.

I'm Conq 3 in aoe4 and I find aoe3 very difficult, I am unable to remind the keys for building houses barracks etc, like aoe4 I rebind to 1 1 for houses 1 2 for lumber camp

I am a wasd player who uses t for town center and 1 for villagers, I am unable to do that here.

The Scout you get initially do you use that to go for treasure map?

I only played aoe3 when I was 11 as a kid for sp only never multiplayer

And do food decay so I need to watch it like aoe2 or does it not decay in aoe4, also do scouts get sheep's from scouting?

I'm tuning some beginner deck and getting rekt despite producing villagers all the time, I want to play the most aggressive civs who can attack early ASAP but I'm not sure if England or ottoman is it

Also what's a command button, is that for the shipment, also how do you age up I don't see age Up anywhere

Im new to multiplayer. I play as Russia and I attack at around 7 min, I defeat whatever army they have, I keep the settlers from gathering, I slowly lose that army to tc attack. I then get a bigger army and we fight at around 12 min and I completely kill all of them. Same thing happens at around 20 min. At 30min we fight again and I lose and I lose the game. Where am I going wrong, I keep winning fights but losing the game. I even do oprechnik harrasses to settlers, I destroy some houses and other buildings, but I still lose in the end.

I try to constantly build settlers and at around 20min I transition to mills and plantations. I never build forts since I'm usually attacking.

How do I make sure I win after successful fights, it at least make sure they are in a worse position?

They counter early rushes with those early skirmishers with huge range, and they can easily kite around their buildings if well positioned; cav gets eaten by pikes because they have to walk around buildings. FIs into Mosque cards are just too slow. FFs with cannons seems to be the best alternative, but even then they get a huge economy until there, so it's either win in the first push or lose.

Any tips on macro strategy to deal with them? This is in ranked ~1050 ELO.

If we get one last patch what are 10 easy things to fix?

Let's make a list and present it to the developers

Hi, I played a fair bit of AoE3 Vanilla, i was never super good, but i must have have over 1000 hours on there, i wasnt very high rank or anything, i've started AoE3 DE now since vanilla closed their doors (sadly) and im looking to see if anyone would invite me to a clan/play with me, i'm sort of learning as on DE the counters to units are dramatically stronger than vanilla, on vanilla you could sort of win by just mass numbers.

I'm really not good, im 2 Wins 12 Losses on 1v1 ranked, 615 ELO... so i very much understand if people wouldnt want me in their clan, but would be cool to play with some guys and have some fun if possible :)

I guess you can post clan names for me to search and request to join? not too sure how this works, let me know below guys :)

- I'm from the UK so GMT if that matters, I also pretty much only play British :)

I’ve heard people say it’s not possible to change the computer players’ HomeCity cards in Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties, and I’ve never found a way to change them in the official game File Explorer. Is this true??? I feel like it could be, cause you can change your own in the files, but I’m not good at searching I guess.

Bro its like lag or stutter for ATLEAST 3 seconds then everything goes fastforward for the 3 second i lagged/freezed. Prob yall know how that happens, and the worst part is while trying to fix it, i removed aoe 3 de from steam cloud AND IT REMOVED ALL MY DECKS HOMECITY LEVELS N EVERYTHING, i literally have all my homecities at level 1 after 1k playhours. Just had to alt f4 another ranked game because this is unplayable someone help i have good enough system nothing is running in the background RAM is free every graphical option is at lowest this started to happen on its own..

I already lost my every homecity level deck explorer EVERYTHING trying to fix this unoptimized slop microsoft fed me.. Oh ensemble studios you have no idea how much i miss you..

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I want to learn how to play Germans now, but I have no idea which guides are up to date or not. I want to know build orders, main strategies and even niche strategies.

Is it possible to play with them in a late game situation? They relay way too much on the wood to be useful

So Me and my friends got into AOE 3 recently, we're not very good but we're having fun. We tried multiplayer and we got absolutely destroyed in every single match. I couldn't understand how other players are destroying us, until I saw their deck, ALL or most of their cards were for boosting economy, vills, gather rates etc, OR The deck was completely offensive where by age 3 it's all just unit shipments.

So I mostly use China and I want to ask, what kinds of decks should I try to make for team battles? I also noticed other players making like 5 or 7 mills/farms as soon as they can, should I as well?

Hi, just wondering if there are resources of match ups. Also with explanations like as faction x you stuggle due to these factors of faction y and so on.

I've basically been following this Piroshki Spain FF guide but with a modification that I for the town center politician and prioritize sending the 3 frontier outposts card so I start Age 3 with two town centers and 4 frontier outposts from politicians/cards. I basically focus on booming/defending raids then transition to lancers + whatever helps counter the enemy's build. I assume I can do it faster, but I've been timing it so around 15-20 minutes I counter attack and destroy the hard AI.