Church

"Trains healers and provides colony improvements and unique improvements."

—In-game description

The Church is an economic building in Age of Empires III that is available once the Colonial Age is reached. It trains healers such as Priests or Missionaries, as well as Spies in The WarChiefs expansion, and provides improvements for the player's colony as well as unique improvements for each civilization that requires a certain Home City Card (see below) to be sent.

The Ottomans have the Mosque instead of the Church, although both are identical in function.

Units Edit

Age	Unit	Cost
	Priest	200 coin, 1
	Surgeon	300 coin, 1
	Spy*	125 coin, 2

Units with an asterisk (*) are added in The WarChiefs.

The Surgeon requires the Master Surgeon Home City Card to be trained at the Church.

Spanish Edit

Age	Unit	Cost
	Missionary	100 wood, 100 coin, 1 , limit 10

The Missionary replaces the Priest for the Spanish.

Improvements Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Bastion	400 wood, 600 coin	Upgrades Walls into Bastions with +150% hit points
	Mission Fervor	200 food, 200 wood	Imams, Priests, Medicine Men, Missionaries, Surgeons, and Warrior Priests get +35% hit points and +15% speed
	Town Watch	200 food	All units get +2 LOS
	Gas Lighting	100 food	All buildings get +4 LOS
	Mercantilism	1,500 coin	Gives 2,000 XP
	Standing Army	350 coin	Infantry train time -25%
	Mass Cavalry	750 coin	Cavalry train time -50%

British Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Thin Red Line	Free	Infantry gets +20% hit points and -25% speed
	The Black Watch	1,000 food	Ships 8 Black Watches (Highlanders)
	Roger's Rangers	2,000 coin	Ships 26 Roger's Rangers (Guard Skirmishers)

Dutch Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Coffee Trade	Free	Bank build limit +2 but all military units get -10% speed
	Waardgelders	1,000 food	Ships 5 Waardgelders (Stradiots)
	Stadhouders	2,000 coin	Ships 30 Stadhouders (Guard Musketeers)

French Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Code Napoleon	Free	Coureurs des Bois gather 10% faster but buildings cost +50%
	Garde Imperial 1	500 food	Ships 4 Young Guards (Grenadiers)
	Garde Imperial 2	1,000 food	Ships 8 Middle Guards (Veteran Grenadiers with Incendiary Grenades) and upgrades Young Guards to Middle Guards; requires Garde Imperial 1
	Garde Imperial 3	2,000 food	Ships 15 Old Guards (Guard Grenadiers with +10% hit points and attack) and upgrades Middle Guards to Old Guards; requires Garde Imperial 2

Germans Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Tilly's Discipline	Free	Infantry gets +20% speed but costs +10%
	Wallenstein's Contracts	4,000 coin	Home City mercenary shipments (except TEAM Hire Hessians and TEAM 10 Cree Allies) are free
	Zweihander	2,000 coin	Ships 12 Doppelsoldner and Doppelsoldner gets +10% hit points

John Black's Mercenaries (campaign) Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Indian Friendship	1,000 wood	Native warriors get +25% hit points
	Customized Merc Weapons	Free	Mercenaries get +30% attack but buildings cost +30%

Knights of St. John (campaign) Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Corselet	Free	Heavy infantry gets +25% hit points and -15% speed
	Tax Burden	Free	Ships 100 coin for every minute the game has lasted, up to 30 minutes, but Settlers get -40% hit points
	High Crusade	Free	Ships 8 Hoop Throwers and Hoop Throwers get +25% hit points and +20% attack, but all other military units get -5% hit points

Portuguese Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Encomienda Manor	Free	Settlers gather 20% faster from Mills but 5% slower from anything else
	Besteiros	2,400 wood	Ships 22 Besteiros (Veteran Crossbowmen with +30% hit points and attack) and upgrades Crossbowmen to Besteiros
	Order of the Tower and the Sword	2,000 wood	Ships 11 Tower and Sword Riders (Black Riders)

Russians Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Westernization	900 wood	Upgrades Streltsy, Musketeers, Cossacks, and Grenadiers to Veteran (if not already)
	Kalmucks	1,000 wood	Ships 9 Kalmucks (Guard Dragoons)
	Petrine Reforms	2,500 coin	Upgrades Streltsy, Musketeers, Halberdiers, Cossacks, Cavalry Archers, Oprichniki, and Grenadiers to Guard/Royal Guard (if not already); requires Westernization
	Bashkir Ponies	2,000 coin	Ships 17 Bashkirs (Guard Hussars)

Spanish Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Corselet	Free	Heavy infantry gets +25% hit points and -15% speed
	Quatrefage	1,000 wood	Ships 13 Guard Halberdiers
	Wild Geese	2,000 food	Ships 10 Wild Geese (Hackapells)

United States (campaign) Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Grand Encampment	Free	Infantry gets +25% hit points and -25% speed
	American Patriots	Free	Ships 16 Minutemen

Civilization differences Edit

• The Japanese can build one (and only one) Church by allying with the Dutch at the Consulate (requires a level 25 Home City), which provides the Church Wagon shipment that ships a namesake unit capable of building a Church for free.

Further statistics Edit

As the Church can only be built by the European civilization except the Ottomans, only improvements available to them (including native improvements) are listed here.

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Penalties	Code Napoleon (+50% cost, French only) Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost, John Black's Mercenaries only)

Home City Cards Edit

As the Church is exclusive to European civilizations except Ottomans, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Church

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Europeans Edit Card Description Age Home City level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Master Surgeons Surgeons can be trained at the Church and heals +50% hit points 10 The Master Surgeons card is not available to British and Spanish. British Edit Card Description Age Home City level The Glorious Revolution Provides the Church with the Thin Red Line, The Black Watch, and Roger's Rangers improvements 10 Dutch Edit Card Description Age Home City level Religious Freedom Provides the Church with the Coffee Trade, Waardgelders, and Stadhouders improvements 10 French Edit Card Description Age Home City level TEAM Cheap Church Church and Mosque costs -80% and their improvements (except unique ones) cost less; Field Hospitals cost -50%; Monastery costs -30%; Fire Pit are free 10 Edict of Nantes Provides the Church with the Code Napoleon and Garde Imperial 1/2/3 improvements 10 Germans Edit Card Description Age Home City level Treaty of Westphalia Provides the Church with the Tilly's Discipline, Wallenstein's Contracts, and Zweihander improvements 10 Indians Edit Card Description Age Home City level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Portuguese Edit Card Description Age Home City level Treaty of Tordesillas Provides the Church with the Encomienda Manor, Besteiros, and Order of the Tower and the Sword improvements 10 Russians Edit Card Description Age Home City level Reformist Tsar Provides the Church with the Westernization, Kalmucks, Petrine Reforms, and Bashkir Ponies improvements 10 Spanish Edit Card Description Age Home City level Royal Decree to Claim the New World Provides the Church with the Corselet, Quatrefage, and Wild Geese improvements 10

History Edit

"Churches are places of worship for Christian colonists. Settlers in the New World built churches to provide a place for worship as well as for community events. Religion drove exploration and colonization as people like the Pilgrims left their homes, fleeing persecution, to find religious freedoms in the New World."

Gallery Edit

Churches

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See also Edit

• Mosque

Buildings in Age of Empires III
Economic	Town Center · Trading Post · House (Europeans except British, Aztecs) · Manor (British) · Longhouse (Iroquois) · Teepee (Sioux) · Village (Chinese) · Indian House (Indians) · Shrine (Japanese) · Market · Mill (Europeans) · Bank (Dutch) · Farm (Native Americans) · Rice Paddy (Asians) · Livestock Pen (Europeans) · Sacred Field (Indians) · Fire Pit (Native Americans) · Mosque (Ottomans) · Consulate (Asians) · Church (Europeans except Ottomans) · Plantation (Europeans and Native Americans) · Factory (Europeans) · Capitol (Europeans)
Military	Outpost (Europeans except Russians) · Blockhouse (Russians) · War Hut (Native Americans) · Castle (Asians) · Dock · Monastery (Asians) · Barracks (Europeans except Russians, Indians and Japanese) · Stable (Europeans and Japanese) · Corral (Native Americans) · Caravanserai (Indians) · War Academy (Chinese) · Artillery Foundry · Saloon (Europeans) · Arsenal (Europeans) · Fort (Europeans) · Siege Workshop (Iroquois) · Nobles' Hut (Aztecs) · Dojo (Japanese)
Other	Field Hospital · Native Embassy · Wonders (Asians)
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