The final confrontation of the Age of Empires 3 series is a sticky one.
In the first part of this mission you should build a keep and work on building up an army. In the beginning it will be a lot of sepoys and a lot of melee units. Very quickly you will need to get up elephants to defend against these pushes.
To the west of your base will be a constant attack of enemies. After every single attack from the north there will be a small attack to the west.
You will want to expand your base to the west. Use wood imports to power up your economy and have your harvesters get food and gold to afford an army.
Once you survive the waves you can plan to move on the enemy.
The enemy will have saltpeter supplies to the west. Destroying these cuts down the enemy’s ability to create their own sepoys. The enemy also has trade routes to the north which will cut off resources and cut out their ability to make units.
Once you break in (from the back) you can capture the enemy’s back two cannons. These can be used to destroy the enemy’s main base and win the game. All you have to do from here is just protect these guns while they take out the main base.
Possibly one of the easiest missions in the game you must raid Delhi, free sepoys and save the Sultan of the Mughol Empire.
The game acts as a little puzzle, avoid the enemies whereever possible, destroy explosive barrels near elephans and progress through.
The Sultan is the only one who has health that will regenerate. However the Sultan dies is an automatic loss. You need to keep enough of your units alive so that the final battle to save the Sultan will be a massive success.
As an alternative you can just move the Sultan through the enemy line as you attack in to get to the final point.
As far as missions go this one is relatively easy. You build a Keep and start building units. There will be small attacks from time to time, but you can deal with them all very effectively if you stay by your keep.
Building reputation building pens is smart. By doing this you will have a new set of resources without cutting into your main army supply.
I use sepoys and cavalry in this mission. The high damage and armor of cavalry make them able to stomp any units, sepoys just end up being a cheap resource dump.
Push out once you have high unit producing abilities. This means that if you lose large chunks of your army you can rebuild it very quickly. To win Right Click on the enemy’s base.
Much like the last through walkthroughs, first a little bit about the history of the Indian revolution.
After the Dutch rebelled against the Spanish their first move was to acquire territory and become a real empire, which they did. The French and British saw a need to maintain their positions in the world and so they worked to help carve up India. The giant land of India (modern day Pakistan, India, and Southern China) was a vast land ready to be conquered.
India was home to a giant expanse of mountains that cut off villages and created multiple small empires in the area, yes India was a split nation of people. The Europeans used these inter-country differences to carve out the Indian empire and use them against each other.
As British dominance grew in the seas, the Dutch Empire vanished. Various wars with the French with the help of the Germans left the French weak. This gave Britain the opportunity to take control of all of India, all of China, half of Africa, Canada, and many Middle Eastern lands.
The British were the world’s bastion of power. In order to maintain this power two company’s were created. First was the Hudson’s Bay Company which was responsible for running the country of Canada and maintaining the fur trade. The British East India Company was created to maintain the flow of spices and resources out of India. This company was the effectively government of India up until Ghandi became Prime Minister.
In between this period was the Sepoy rebellion. This was the first crack in the British Empire. It sent a message home that they were not the noble rulers they thought they had been. The Sepoy rebellion set the East India Company back quite a bit and fed into a future determination of a nation of people.
In the Ghandi peaceful rebellion most of his supporters were wealthy descendants of Sepoys. Instead of just killing off all of the Sepoys it was determined they could bribe these people with new positions of power.
On to the game. In this mission you have to destroy Saltpeter sites and recapture the main trade route on behalf of the East India Company.
To do this you will want majority Sepoys and Elephant artillery.
The goal to this mission is to make a strong economy. This will be tougher than in previous campaigns because the Indian worker costs wood instead of food. This means you will need to have a lot of wood production which means you’ll have tones of ability to make buildings but less ability to make units.
To deal with this you can take in wood shipments and have your harvesters gathering gold and food instead. With this approach you can make a lot of harvesters and grow a large army very quickly. This tactic will pay off in future missions as well.
It is a good idea to take out and capture the southern trade post (just east of your base). This will give you a tonne of resources that will pay off. If you build a Keep here it will stay protected for most of the game.
Do not go north from there. It is an ambush.
Instead head north and west of this ambush and you will be able to take out the heavily guarded middle trading post. At this point it is largely pointless to capture these. They will get destroyed very quickly unless you guard them with a lot of Keeps.
Instead just continue north to the main stronghold. Once the stronghold and his unit producing abilities is destroyed then you should build up all the trading posts. Until then he will keep sending armies at you.
The Chinese have landed in America! And the locals have taken half of your crew captive. The treasure fleet is spread out and Captain Huang needs to unify it.
This mission is pace based. By activating a treasure fleet you activate a barracks to produce units. This means it is to your advantage to do a lot of building before you move out. Build a Town Hall and get your economy going. Build up an army and get a little head start before moving out.
After taking the first ship you should build a Castle before the ship for extra protection. If you head west there is a barracks here you can destroy to stop constant attacks on this ship.
After each ship captured the number of units attacking increases, so your unit producing abilities should increase as well. After capturing each ship build a fortress in front of it and destroy the barracks to the west.
You should be Aging up and getting higher end units. For your final battle you will want largely expensive units rather than weak bow units. It would also be wise to add in some flamethrowers to chop down the vast number of Aboriginal infantry units.
When you get the final lost ship you will be told to cut down the village. You will also get a direct path to the enemy. This should be relatively easy considering your existing army size.
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