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This article is about the ships in Age of Empires III. For ships in other games, see Ship. |
| “ | Naval unit. Ships are any unit on the water and vary from small, weak Fishing Boats to large, dangerous Frigates. You can build only a limited number of each type of ship. Certain improvements available in your Home City allow you to maintain a greater number of a certain type of ship. | ” |
| —In-game information | ||
Ships in Age of Empires III are units which can move (sail) on water. Ships are used for fishing, combat, and to transport land units across bodies of water.
Using the cheat code "flying dutchman" in the Definitive Edition will allow ships to travel on land.
Civilian ship[]
War ship[]
Recruiting ship[]
War ships which can train units near the shore are called recruiting ships. They receive less damage from Culverins, and are also siege units, so they suffer less from defensive structures too. This tag was introduced in update 15.59076.
Untrainable[]
Trivia[]
- War ships get random names that are taken from renowned war ships in real life.
| Tags in Age of Empires III | |
|---|---|
 Infantry | |
 Heavy infantry | Hand infantry ·  Pikeman · Musket infantry |
 Light infantry | Foot archer · Rifle infantry · Hand skirmisher |
| Other | Counter skirmisher · Gunpowder trooper · Grenade trooper |
 Cavalry /  Shock infantry | |
 Heavy cavalry |  Hand cavalry · Ranged heavy cavalry · Lance cavalry |
 Light ranged cavalry | Gunpowder cavalry |
| Shock infantry |  Hand shock infantry ·  Ranged shock infantry |
| Other | Camel · Elephant |
| Siege units | |
 Siege trooper ·  Artillery ·  Siege Elephant · Gatling Camel* · Fixed Gun* · Arrow Knight* | |
| Ships | |
| Fishing boat · War ship · Recruiting ship | |
 Building | |
 Resource enclosure ·  Wall · Frontier fortification · Barracks | |
| Other | |
 Hero ·  Mercenary · Monk ·  Outlaw ·  Pet ·  Villager | |
| Mother nature | |
 Hunted animals ·  Guardian | |
| Support tags | |
| Archer · Healing unit · Native warrior · Archaic infantry · Ranged infantry · Ranged cavalry · Consulate unit | |
| All tags with icons are related to the bonus and penalties counter system, except *hidden tags that aren't in the UI | |