Some can be sent only once (military units, buildings), some can be sent unlimited times (for instance, crates of food, and resources). Those playing cards are the possible shipments to your colony. Each of these buildings can produce “playing cards” which can be used by a player. Each Home City is assigned to only one civilization and initially contains five main buildings: The New World Trading Company, the Military Academy, the Cathedral, the Manufacturing Plant and the Harbor. Once In a while you will have a “shipment” ready for your colony in the Home City. In fact, it cannot be attacked at all as it is not present on the map. The uniqueness of the Home City is that cannot be destroyed. It is a sort of powerhouse separated from the active game. The Home City is like your second city – providing valuable resources for your colony. And this choice can be decisive – especially when your home cities are improved throughout your games/campaign. You can, in fact, have several Home Cities for the same civilization – but you can only choose one when you start a game. There are default names and settings – but you can change them as you like for every nation. The player can also add characters, change colors, add decorations or objects in the game.

You can design a Home City according to your likings. Your Home City, when customized, changes the visual aspects of the game without affecting the actual game play. When you start your first game (deathmatch, multiplayer, campaign) with any nation (there are 8 civilizations available in the game, each having unique strengths, weakness and unique units – as described in our AOE III Nations Overview) you are required to create a home city for that nation.

Home CitiesĪge of Empires III is the first game to introduce the Home City concept. The points which you have collected earlier get used here - and the Home City is definitely an important way to do that. As the game goes further you also need to build different type of buildings like the town center, and keep on upgrading your available resources. This gives you points in different categories like food, wood, coin which you need to spend later. The game starts with exploring the land, and collecting resources. It not only entertains but also keeps you busy in various different tasks you need to do at the same time. Age of Empires is a game which gives the satisfaction of being an emperor to the player.

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