Into the Caves

Into the Caves is the second level in Act I in Age of Empires III, and the knights Morgan Black and commander of the Knights of St. John, Alain must kill all of the surviving Ottoman soldiers and their Weapon Cache which is located in a cave.

The Level
In Into the Caves you are technically on the offense, but your town starts off under Ottoman fire. Morgan's army has a commandeered Great Bombard so bring the artillery piece to the front lines and fight. Then send Morgan Black and Alain to attack also, and train about 10 Crossbowmen from a safe Barracks that is away from the fighting.

After the town is safe from the Ottoman attack, help it out and also wait. Soon one of your scouts will spot an Ottoman Weapon Cache so build up your army. So you should create as much Crossbowmen as you can, but you should make a few Pikemen too. You could also build an Artillery Foundry so you can get Hoop Throwers in your army. While doing all of this you should make more Houses to support your military.

For extra you can take Morgan Black and a few of your units and take the treasures near the town. To take these treasure now you need to kill anything that are guarding the treasures which are usually a few wild animals. Once you collect all of the treasures you can return back to your town and army.

It would be good if you make more Settlers and get a good amount of food, wood, and coin for your economy. Also do not forget to keep reinforcing your military.

After your army is ready take the 2 knights and take your whole army and head towards the northeast part of the map. You should use your Hoop Throwers to kill any enemy foot units, but because they are useless against enemy buildings put them in the back front because you should see an enemy town soon. Make your Great Bombard destroy the buildings while Morgan Black, Alain and some other units can attack the enemy resistance.

This is the only town the Ottomans have so destroy their Barracks, if any and kill all the Ottoman units the enemy sends at your army. If you want send your men and make them circle the mountain to find and destroy a couple more enemy buildings. When the land is clear return your army back to the first town and soon your troops will spot a large cave that needs to be breeched.

By now your resources should hae built up a lot and if you wish you can produce even more units to bring back up your army. So you should get your military and send every unit inside, soon you shoud find a number of Ottoman weapon caches and soon Morgan Black will find a seceret passage out of the cave and then you will be victorious.