Levy

This article is about the technology. For the Revolution unit, see Colonial Militia.

LevyColonial Militia
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Civilization	Europeans
Age	Discovery Age
Research
Researched at	Town Center
Food	150
Coin	150
Research time	5 seconds
Effect
Spawns 6 Minutemen

“	Call a handful of Minutemen to defend this colony!	”
—In-game description

Levy is a technology in Age of Empires III that can be researched by European civilizations at the Town Center, which spawns six Minutemen to defend the Town Center from enemy attack.

Unlike other technologies, Levy is available on each and every Town Centers the player have, but can only be researched once as with other technologies.

With the Colonial Militia Home City Card, Colonial Militia will be available at Town Centers, which is exactly the same as Levy aside of the name, but can be used separately, effectively allowing a Town Center to muster two groups of Minutemen at once or mustering a second group of Minuteman.

Civilization differences

• The Indians can research Levy by allying with the Ottomans at the Consulate (requires a level 40 Home City), which costs 200 export but the Minutemen spawned by the Consulate version will appear on the Home City shipment point.

Strategy

• Levy can be used to assist in gathering Treasure, hunting the enemy heroes and scouts, or to harass the enemy with hit and run on their gatherers, who will perish in a single barrage by all six units and an explorer (with the exception of Coureur des Bois and Settler Wagons).

See also

• Town Defense
• Sentry Uprising