| “ | Welcome! In this challenge, you will learn about the importance of Experience Points and how to earn them. | ” |
| —First lines spoken in the scenario. | ||
Home City Shipments is the third scenario of The Art of War in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. This scenario acts as a tutorial in teaching the player how to get shipments through experience and used them from the Home City.
Video instruction[]
Experiences Points: Upgrades and Shipments
Your town is just that-a town. You are in a mission from you homeland. Therefore, your home city will supply you to help you complete your mission. Anything you do-constructing buildings, training units, and destroying enemy assets-generates experience that can be exchanged for this help.
Once you have accumulated enough experience, you will earn a shipment. These shipment can be used to deliver units, ships, resource crates, building wagons, and even units improvements!
Normally, the shipped units are delivered to your Town Center, but other buildings, such as Outposts or Forts, can be set to receive shipments. Naval shipments arrive at a separate flag located on the water.
A good way to generate experience is to have your Explorer construct a Trading Post on a trade route. Whenever the trade caravan passes your Trading Post, you will receive a large amount of experience. In the later ages, the Trading Post can also generate other resources.
Do not forget to be active if you want to earn experience! Your home city will reward you not only for exploring the New World, but also for keeping others away from it.
Scenario instructions[]
Primary objectives[]
- Gain 300 experience points to send your first shipment.
- Gain 645 experience points to send the second shipment.
- Gain 1042 experience points to send the third shipment.
- Gain 1498 experience points to send the fourth shipment.
- Gain 2023 experience points to send the fifth shipment.
- Earn 5 shipments to complete the challenge.
Secondary objectives[]
- Loot Treasures to gain additional Experience Points.
- Destroy the enemy Trading Post and build your own Trading Post on its ruins.
- Kill the enemy patrol to gain additional Experience Points.
- Build a Trading Post on the socket next to the Trade Route.
Players[]
Player[]
- Dutch (
Dutch): The player starts with one Explorer, one Town Center, one Market, two Houses, and five Merchants, and has to concentrate on the objectives to win the medals.
Enemy[]
- Indians (
Indians): The enemy will attack in waves with Gurkhas, Rajputs, and Sepoys to stop the player from booming.
Home City Cards[]
- Click here to see an overview of all Home City Cards available in the "Home City Shipments" The Art of War
| Card | Description | Age |
|---|---|---|
 3 Settlers
| Delivers 3 Settlers |  |
 Cords of 300 Wood
| Delivers 3 Cords of Wood | |
 Sawmills
| Villager gather work rate for tree and Mango Grove +15%; land villager changes gather yield for tree and Mango Grove +15% | |
 Colbertism
| Adds 1.5 to food trickle rate | |
 4 Settlers
| Delivers 4 Settlers |  |
 Crates of 700 Food
| Delivers 1 Huge Crates of Food and 2 Crates of Food | |
 Cords of 600 Wood
| Delivers 1 Huge Cords of Wood and 1 Cords of Wood | |
 Cords of 700 Wood
| Delivers 1 Huge Cords of Wood and 2 Cords of Wood | |
 Chests of 700 Coin
| Delivers 1 Huge Chests of Coin and 2 Chests of Coin | |
 8 Pikemen
| Delivers 8 Pikemen | |
 Infantry Attack
| Pikeman, Halberdier, Skirmisher, Revolutionary Sharpshooter, and Musketeer damage +15% | |
 3 Hussars
| Delivers 3 Hussars | |
 Bank Wagon
| Delivers 1 Bank Wagon | |
 Medicine
| Land villager cost and train time -15% | |
Medals[]
- Gold: Complete the scenario in 6 minutes.
- Silver: Complete the scenario in 8 minutes.
- Bronze: Complete the scenario in 10 minutes.
Treasures[]
There are four treasures on the map. The player can capture them to increase their experience accumulation.
Click for a list of treasures and their guardians related to the "Home City Shipments" The Art of War:
| Treasure | Reward | Guardians |
|---|---|---|
| A curious gibbon with an assortment of stolen goods worth | 30 coin, 30 XP | 1x  Monitor Lizard
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| A menacing king cobra worth | 270 XP | 4x  Rhino
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| A curious macaque with an assortment of stolen goods worth | 35 coin, 35 XP | 2x  Tibetan Macaque
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| Possible remnants of the fabled valley Shangri-La worth | 350 XP | 4x  Delinquent Thuggee
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The map[]
The map is based on the Deccan map and the Indian subcontinent maps. It features a river and a Trade Route to the west where the player can get a trickle of experience, and Nilgai near the base. Since this is a timed scenario, the player should focus on Nilgai and get them as close as possible to the Town Center to maximize food harvest and be able to create troops to destroy and capture the enemy Trading Posts to get more experience.
Strategy[]
The players can build some Houses and a Market to get the first shipment, Then, the players can ask Home City for the 3 Merchants card to speed up the economy. On the next shipment, they can send Colbertism to get free food and advance to the next age, then send the 4 Merchants card and build Banks to get free coin. After 5 minutes, they'll have their economy set up to win the gold medal, or at least the silver medal.
Trivia[]
- This is the only scenario in Age of Empires III where the player plays as the Dutch.
