| “ | These Weapon Caches are being used to support the Ottomans. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Weapon Cache is a building that detonates in a large explosion (only visual) once destroyed and is featured in multiple campaigns in Age of Empires III.
Overview[]
The building is has a dark grayish color and is fairly small, no bigger than a house. Crates of ammunition, weapons, and gunpowder can be seen cluttered and filling up the building. When the building explodes, it shoots out a bright orange fireball and a large cloud of smoke. Seconds after, a large fire will be raging over where the building once stood.
In the Campaign[]
The weapon cache is found in multiple of the campaigns featured in Age of Empires III and the expansion packs The WarChiefs and The Asian Dynasties.
Act I: Blood[]
- Into the Caves - The weapon cache makes its first appearance where Morgan fights off the remaining Ottoman stragglers and 8 weapon caches must be destroyed to win the scenario.
Act II: Shadow[]
- Urgent News - The weapon Cache makes a return in The WarChiefs where the player gets provided with a Black Powder Wagons to blow up the Weapon Caches and to clear a way and allow Chayton Black to meet with a Lakota leader.
Act III: India[]
- Raid in Delhi - The Weapon Cache reappears in The Asian Dynasties where Nanib and Pravar's forces must destroy the weapon caches to spook nearby Elephants and cause destruction to the British East India Company.
Historical Battles[]
- Algiers - Several weapon caches contain the Spanish gunpowder supply in the western section of the map. Destroying them is one of the optional objectives.
Gallery[]
Weapon Cache in campaign
An exploding Weapon Cache
Knights of St. John destroying a Weapon Cache in the Into the Caves scenario