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This article is about the native Asian religious settlement featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. For the alliance available to the Ethiopians, see Jesuits.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit

The Jesuit Mission is a native Asian religious settlement featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post or Tambo at their Trading Post site.

Unit[]

  • Conquistador: European adventurer armed with a gun and riding horseback. Good against cavalry.

Technologies[]

Age Technology Cost Effect
Flying Buttress 250 wood
250 coin
Building hit points +20%
Smokeless Powder 250 food
250 coin
Gunpowder trooper and gunpowder cavalry damage +10%; artillery damage +5%
Christian Schools 100 wood
100 coin
Land villager train time -15%

Strategy[]

Jesuit technologies focus on villager training time reduction, gunpowder and artillery unit damage, and building hit points.

The Flying Buttress technology gives all buildings 20% more hit points. The Smokeless Powder technology gives gunpowder troopers and gunpowder cavalry +10% damage and artillery +5% damage. This technology favors using gunpowder units, especially with strong gunpowder units such as the Japanese Ashigaru Musketeer. This gives a special plus to the Ottomans due to their great quantity of gunpowder and artillery units, and to the United States for its wide variety of gunpowder infantry units. However, this improvement has little or no effect with the Incas and Aztecs, since they lack their own gunpowder and artillery.

The Christian Schools technology decreases land villager training time by 15%. It has a substantial effect on civilizations that have Medicine or have unique villagers (such as the French Coureur des Bois and the German Settler Wagon). It is generally most useful for revolutions which have the player retraining villagers (most of them), as it is useful for much longer in the game.

The Jesuit military unit is the Conquistador. It is pretty close to scaled-down Dragoon, including in cost, which is available in the Commerce Age. Its ranged attack has a small Area of Effect of 1, like the Hakkapelit, which is especially useful versus dense groups of enemy units. It gives a way to reliably counter artillery in the Commerce Age, and has a high train limit for its cost, meaning it is relatively easy to go for it early.

Overall, the Jesuit Mission is the strongest when countering enemy artillery pushes while the player is in the Commerce Age and when the game stalls out to the point Town Centers start being built, due to Christian Schools. It has the most synergy with civilizations with good gunpowder units.

History[]

This Holy Site is identical to a Native Trade Site. Allying with Natives allows a player to train special Native units, usually warriors, and also grants access to a group of improvements to that tribe. Native units do not cost any population spaces, but can only be built in limited numbers.

The Jesuits are an order of Roman Catholic men who follow the Latin phrase: Ad majorem Dei gloriam, meaning "for the greater glory of God." The order's primary goal has been to spread the teachings of the church, and in doing so it has made lasting contributions in the fields of education and scholarship.

Founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 and confirmed by Pope Paul III in 1540, the Jesuits original mission was to travel to the Holy Land and convert all of the Muslims to Christianity, but with the outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire, the plan never came to fruition. Instead, the order subjected its authority to the will of the Pope and became missionaries wherever they were needed. Missions were established in India and Japan, into the interior of China, and along the coast of Africa. Perhaps the most well known Jesuit missionaries lived and taught in the New World, where they created reductions, village communities under their spiritual guidance and leadership.

As many in the order voyaged abroad, scores of Jesuits traveled throughout Europe building communities and doing their best to embolden the Counter Reformation movement, strengthening Roman Catholicism and weakening the growing Protestant threat. By 1740, more than 650 Jesuit universities had been founded across the continent, as well as 200 seminaries and academies of religious study.

Gallery[]

Civilizations in Age of Empires III
African Ethiopians · Hausa
AmericanFederal American: Mexicans · United States
Native American: Aztecs · Haudenosaunee (formerly Iroquois) · Inca · Lakota (formerly Sioux)
Asian Chinese · Indians · Japanese
European British · Dutch · French · Germans · Italians · Maltese · Ottomans · Portuguese · Russians · Spanish · Swedes
Minor
African Akan · Berbers · Somalis · Sudanese · Yoruba
Asian Bhakti Temple · Jesuit Mission · Shaolin Temple · Sufi Mosque · Tengri Shrine · Udasi Temple · Zen Temple
European House of Bourbon · House of Habsburg · House of Hanover · House of Jagiellon · House of Oldenburg · House of Phanar · House of Vasa · House of Wettin · House of Wittelsbach
Native American Apache · Aztecs · Carib · Cherokee · Cheyenne · Comanche · Cree · Haudenosaunee · Huron · Klamath · Lakota · Lenape · Mapuche · Maya · Navajo · Nootka · Quechua (formerly Incas) · Seminole · Tupi · Zapotec
Other
Campaign Black Family Estate · British · Circle of Ossus · John Black's Mercenaries · Knights of St. John · United States
Historical Battles Barbary Pirates · Canadians · Ethiopians · Moroccans · Somalians · Tatars · United States
Cut Denmark · Poland