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“ | Powerful improvements for your civilization. | ” |
—In-game description |
The Capitol is an economic building in Age of Empires III that is available to the European civilizations and Mexicans upon reaching the Imperial Age. It provides powerful economic and military technologies meant to break the stalemate between the player and their enemies.
The United States has the State Capitol as its counterpart to the Capitol, with similar functions (but with different technologies and improvements unique to the United States), and available in the Fortress Age. The African, Asian, and Native American civilizations lack an equivalent building to the Capitol, but can research the technologies at the Town Center.
Technologies[]
Age | Improvement | Cost | Effect |
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100 coin per enemy unit | Stops all enemies from receiving Home City shipments | |
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75 coin per enemy unit | Shows what all enemies can see | |
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1,500 food | Heroes get +1,000 hit points, Ransom cost +50 | |
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1,000 food | Heroes get +1,000 hit points and +100% attack. Ransom cost +50; requires Knighthood | |
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2,000 coin | Can support 100 population without Town Centers and Houses/Manors.
Reduces train time of all units by 10%.* | |
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1,500 food, 1,500 wood |
Upgrades native warriors to Legendary/Exalted (+50% hit points and attack) | |
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1,000 wood, 1,000 coin |
Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather from Mills, Farms and Rice Paddies (food) 50% faster | |
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1,000 food, 1,000 coin |
Settlers, Coureurs des Bois, and Settler Wagons gather wood 50% faster | |
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1,000 food, 1,000 wood |
All coin gathering (but not trickles, shipments and Trade Routes) is 50% faster, Dutch Bank limit +2 |
Further statistics[]
Building strengths and weaknesses | |
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Strong vs. | Nothing |
Weak vs. | Everything |
Improvements | |
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Sight | ![]() |
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Home City Cards[]
Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Capitol | ||||||||||||||||
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Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Europeans[]
Indians[]
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Changelog[]
Age of Empires III[]
- The Capitol costs 400 wood, gives 80 XP when built and 160 XP when destroyed, and has a Line of Sight of 12.
Definitive Edition[]
History[]
“ | A capitol is a building or set of buildings that houses government offices. usually the legislative branch. Four buildings have served as capitol buildings in the United States. The first was the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. That building still stands and is currently used to house the Maryland General Assembly. | ” |