Cathedral (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. For the building in Age of Empires II, see Cathedral (Age of Empires II).

Cathedral
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Economic
Civilization	Mexicans
Age	Commerce Age
Use	Retrains the Padre Train Spies Research town and unique technologies Generates 1 XP/second Repairs nearby buildings (0.25% of maximum hit points per second, 40 AOE)
Construction
Wood	200
Coin	200
Max. builders	8
Build time	30 seconds
Build limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	5,000
Line of Sight	34
XP build bounty	80
XP bounty	160

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Mexican Church building that can revive a fallen Padre, protects nearby buildings, and has powerful unique upgrades.

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The Cathedral is an economic building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the Mexicans and is available once the Commerce Age is reached. It functions identically to European Churches, but instead of training Priests, retrains the Padre, as well as having more hit points and are capable of slowly repairing nearby buildings (but not the Cathedral itself).

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.	Limit
	Padre	175 coin	–	1
	Spy	125 coin	2	∞

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Medical Science	200 food, 200 wood	Healers get +35% hit points and +15% speed; Field Hospitals get +15% hit points and are built 15% faster
	Town Watch	200 food	All units get +2 LOS
	Gas Lighting	100 food	All buildings get +4 LOS
	Holy Mass	750 coin	Ships 500 XP for every 10 minutes of the game time, up to 30 minutes
	Liturgy	100 food, 100 wood, 100 coin	The Padre heals all units in range simultaneously
	Guadalupanos	200 food, 200 wood, 200 coin	The Padre's Pacify ability can now be used against military units
	Cry of Dolores	400 food, 400 wood, 400 coin	The Padre gets the Cry of Dolores! ability
	State Religion	500 coin	Next Federal State Age Up time -50 seconds and ships twice as much experience
	First Guarantee	Free	The Padre now automatically respawns at the Home City shipment point when he fell; requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card
	Visit of the Seven Houses		Ships 1 Insurgente for every House built
	Día de Muertos		Gives +5 XP for every units lost (but not deleted) before this technology is researched
	Redoubts	400 wood, 600 coin	Walls get +200% hit points and -20% cost, but build time +40%
	Second Guarantee	Free	Soldados get +20% hit points and attack, but train time +40%; Requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card and First Guarantee
	Standing Army	350 coin	Infantry train time -25%
	Mass Cavalry	750 coin	Cavalry train time -35%
	Third Guarantee	Free	Haciendas can be sold to return their resource cost but gets -50% hit points, takes three times as long to be built, and does not give experience when built; Requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card and Second Guarantee

Further statistics

As the Cathedral is unique to the Mexicans, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Home City Cards

As the Cathedral is unique to the Mexicans, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

History

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In Christian states, the Cathedral was the ultimate monument to the glory of God. A large building of worship that was usually the seat of a bishop, one could only be painstakingly erected through extensive financial support and labor. Centers of religious influence both in the past and present, these structures stand to posterity as imposing and impressive reminders of the architectural prowess of past societies.

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Gallery

A Cathedral in-game

Cathedral image from the Compendium section

See also

• Church – European equivalent
• Mosque – Ottoman equivalent
• Meeting House – United States equivalent