Nien Rider: Fast Chinese cavalry armed with a bamboo spear. Good against archers, skirmishers, and artillery. Meteor Hammer: Heavy cavalry that does hand damage from range.

Manchu: Horse archer from northeastern China. Can be used to prevent early enemy raids.īanner Cavalry: Short-ranged, musket-armed cavalryman with a powerful attack. Xiangu: Female soldier armed with a matchlock musket.

Good against infantry.īoxer: Chinese peasant armed with various weapons.

Aging-up will make all Villages spawn a VillagerĬhu Ko Nu: Archaic Chinese crossbow that fires at an extremely fast rate.

Can increase their population cap by 10 with every age-up up to 240.

The Chinese train units through Banner Armies, mixed batches of units that counter a specific type of foe, for a fairly cheaper price.

Will the player bring the Great Qing to glory again or will the player cause the Great Qing to succumb foreign powers? Its a battle for the civilization's liberty. Now it rests upon the player who will take rein on their part of the battle for the Chinese civilization. In the base game the Chinese are modeled on the reign of Kangxi (1661-1722px), while in Wars of Liberty they are modernized to the late Qing dynasty period and their leader is Empress Dowager Cixi, who reigned from 1861 to 1908. The Chinese are one of the three Asian civilizations originally added to Age of Empires III with The Asian Dynasties expansion, and are based on the Great Qing Empire (大清帝國).

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