I bought AoE3 less than a week ago on a steam special.
I play with french and I'm Level 25
I want to try and master 40min treaty games.
This is my strategy so far.
o Collect crates
o Build a house
o All to food
o Send 3 Coureur des Bois
o Queue to 15
o Start to II (wood) @ (as soon as 15th CdB is done)
o Send 4 Coureur des Bois
o At 1200 food move all to gold
o At 1000 gold move all to wood
o Start to III
o Build 2 TCs (one with a shipment, other with explorer)
o Most CdB on food, some on gold
o Spam a ton of CdB and get all market upgrades
o when I hit 1200 gold, stop making CdB
o Start to IV @ (as soon as I have enough food)
o Send both factories
Then after that keep spliting villagers as needed and build plantations etc. and try and get to age V as soon as possible to get the capital upgrades
This has worked really well, but the people I have recently been going up against, just slaughter me. and I eventually run out of resources.
How can I smooth out this plan to get to Age V faster ? and have more resources (Note: I don't have the Fur trade card)
And what army compositions are best ? I learned spamming Imp. Gendarme is a bad idea, as the need a few Skirmishers and some canons as backup.
[This message has been edited by Legion739 (edited 12-02-2015 @ 01:11 AM).]