The Viceroy is an Industrial Age politician in Age of Empires III, available to the British, Dutch, Germans, and Portuguese. As soon as the player advances to the Industrial Age by choosing him, the following appears in the Home City shipment point:
- British – 5 Settlers and 500 food
- Dutch – 5 Merchants and 400 coin
- Germans – 3 Settler Wagons and 300 wood
- Portuguese – 6 Fishing Boats and 400 wood
Before the Definitive Edition, The Viceroy is available to the Germans at a level 20 Home City and the Dutch at a level 40 Home City, and ships 4 Settlers along with the following units:
- British – 3 Grenadiers
- Dutch – 3 Ruyters
- Germans – 3 Uhlans
- Portuguese – 3 Dragoons
Strategy[]
The Viceroy offers a late-game economic boost, which may help for a strategy like a Fast Revolution or a Fast Imperial Age. Each civilization that has access to the Viceroy gets a different resource. Considering villagers in Age of Empires III have a creation limit, The Viceroy can surpass that limit a bit.
- British: The Viceroy may be used as a preparation for revolting, especially if picking Canada or South Africa, both revolutions with a lot of focus on economy. Otherwise. the extra villagers will turn into revolutionaries if the player decides to go for United States or Egypt.
- Dutch: The Dutch have a lower Settler limit than other European civilizations, so The Viceroy for them is highly valuable. Similarly to the British, they may also use the economic boost for revolting. For the Dutch, The Viceroy may be followed up with South Africa (which boosts the economy even more), Brazil (in which every Settler is turned intotwo Voluntarios da Patria), Indonesia, or the United States. If the player decides to instead age up to the Imperial Age for a mercenary strategy, The Viceroy may play a similar role to The Tycoon by giving an economic boost and making a follow-up with The Mercenary Contractor.
- Germans: Settler Wagons have a low creation limit of 20, not to mention that for training them, the Germantown Farmers shipment is needed. With The Viceroy, they may have 23 of them, which is good. Settler Wagons work as fast as two Settlers, and count as one unit, so their Mills and Estates (which have a limited room for workers) are more productive. Also, if the German player didn't have the Germantown Farmer shipment in the deck, they can still get this unit, which does not count for the Settler creation limit. The 300 cords of wood are almost enough to immediately build a mill.
- Portuguese: Unlike the other civilizations, the Portuguese get Fishing Ships and some wood, which makes The Viceroy a good option on naval maps, but should be avoided on land maps. The Viceroy can be a great preparation for revolting into the Barbary States or Gran Colombia, as these revolutions have a naval focus.
Recommended shipments[]
All civilizations[]
- 1 Covered Wagon.
- Advanced Market: Markets get +20% buy/sell factors. Usefull if the player needs to change their resource shipment.
- Resource shipments: if picking Chests of Coin and Crates of Food this may allow a Fast Imperial or a Fast revolution strategy, the most important ones for this are the Chests of 1000 Coin and Crates of 1000 food. if picking Cords of wood this may allow the player to build several buildings for an economic boom such as Estates and Mills, In Portuguese case the Cords of wood may enable for a better fishing ship boom.
- Medicine: Villager cost and train time -15%.
- Any useful economic upgrade.
- Pioneers: Villagers get +65% hit points; units affected by villager upgrades get +20% hit points; units affected by villager upgrades get +20% hit points.
British[]
- Manor house related shipments especially Terraced Houses: This may allow a faster booming strategy.
Dutch[]
- Flemish Revolution: Turns all villagers into Halberdiers.
- Bank related shipments.
- South Sea Buble and Dutch Paintings: with this the player may exchange all the coin into other resource.
Germans[]
- TEAM Conestoga Wagons
- March Revolution: Turns all Villagers and Pikemen into Revolutionaries, and Settler Wagons into Guard Hussars.
- Shipments that reduce the cost of buildings especially Landgrab, Advanced Mill and Advanced Estate.
- Germantown Farmers: Mills can train Settler Wagons
Portuguese[]
- TEAM Fish Market: Fishing boats gather food from fishes and coin from whales 10% faster.
- Rendering Plant: Fishing boats gather food from fishes 30% faster and coin from whales 25% faster.
- Schooners: Fishing Boat cost -20 wood and train time -30%.
- Portuguese White Fleet: Each Dock spawns 4 Fishing Boats after 80 seconds.
- Whale Oil: Fishing Boats and Caravels gather coin from Whales 30% faster
- Advanced Dock.
- Shipments that reduces the cost of buildings or warships such as Navigation School.
Changelog[]
Age of Empires III[]
- The Viceroy ships 4 Settlers.
- British: The Viceroy also ships 3 Grenadiers.
- Dutch: The Viceroy also ships 3 Ruyters.
- Germans: The Viceroy also ships 3 Uhlans.
- Portuguese: The Viceroy also ships 3 Dragoons.
Definitive Edition[]
- British: The Viceroy now ships 5 Settlers and 500 food.
- Dutch: The Viceroy now ships 5 Settlers and 400 coin.
- Germans: The Viceroy now ships 3 Settler Wagons and 300 wood.
- Portuguese: The Viceroy now ships 6 Fishing Boats and 400 wood.
- Home City level requirement removed.
