Village (Age of Empires III)

Template:Infobox AoE3 Buildings The Village in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties serves as the Chinese counterpart of Houses and Livestock Pens.

Overview

While much more expensive than Houses, Villages provide 20 population (twice than that of the Houses), which can be boosted even further with Chinese Home City cards and improvements at the Village itself. Villages also can serve as Home City drop-off points for shipments, act as Livestock Pens, train Goats and muster defensive units.

Units

Icon	Unit	Cost	Init. / Max. Food
	Goat	100 food	50 / 300 food
	Water Buffalo	80 food	50 / 500 food

Note: The Water Buffalo requires the Water Buffalo Ranching Home City card to be trained by Villages.

Improvements

Age	Icon	Improvement	Cost	Effect
		Town Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population
		County Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires Town Government
		Prefecture Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires County Government
		Provincial Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires Prefecture Government
		Selective Breeding	150 wood 150 coin	Livestock fattens 25% faster
		Rural Sentry Uprising	50 food 50 coin	Spawns 2 Sentries; can only be used once, requires Village Defense (Home city card)
		Rural Defense	50 food 50 coin	Spawns 2 Irregulars; can only be used once, requires Village Defense (Home city card)

Home City shipments

As the Village is exclusive to the Chinese, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.

Click for a list of related Home City cards

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team Europeans Native Americans Asians Chinese Card icon Card name Card description Age Home City level Nomadic Settlement Ships 1 Village Rickshaw and Village build limit +1 1 0 Nomadic Expansion Ships 2 Village Rickshaws and Village build limit +1 2 0 Water Buffalo Ranching Villages can train Water Buffaloes 1 0 TEAM Provincial Administration Houses and Longhouses get +50% hit points and support +5 to +10 population; Villages, Shrines, and Manors get +33% hit points and support +5 to +20 population 1 0 Village Defenses Villages can attack when garrisoned and call small packs of Irregulars and Sentries 2 0 File:Improved buildings.png Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 1 10 Confucius' Gift Improvements research 99% faster (almost instantly) and Home City shipments arrive 75% faster 3 40 Land Reforms Villagers and Rickshaws construct buildings 50% faster and buildings give +100% XP when built 2 10 File:Land grab.png Land Grab Livestock Pens, Mills, Farms, Plantations, Rice Paddies, Sacred Fields and Villages are built 75% faster and cost -30% to -40% 1 25

History

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During the late fourteenth century, the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor began a new policy of distributing vast amounts of land to local farmers. A product of a rural upbringing, the Hongwu Emperor favored farmers, and parsed the land, giving it to young boys who had reached manhood. To prevent the seizure of this land by corrupt landlords, he established non-transferable land titles and did away with taxation. The response was overwhelmingly positive. In 1393, the amount of land being cultivated rose drastically, at speeds never equaled by a later dynasty.

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Realizing that water conservancy would play a crucial part in the success of Chinese agriculture, the Hongwu Emperor focused on irrigation. He dispatched student from the Kuo-tzu-chien, or Imperial College, to develop massive irrigation systems and develop more than 40,000 ponds and dikes. Because of his decisive actions China experienced an agricultural revolution during the latter half of the fourteenth century.

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Gallery

An in-game Village before the Industrial Age

An in-game Village after the Industrial Age