HOW TO: Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties Hard Difficulty – Act 3 Mission #5: Company Confrontation

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.

HOW TO: Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties Hard Difficulty – Act 3 Mission #4: Raid in Delhi

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.

HOW TO: Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties Hard Difficulty – Act 3 Mission #3: Resist!

As Nanib rebels so do so many sepoys follow him.

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.

HOW TO: Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties Hard Difficulty – Act 2 Mission #3: Lost Ships

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.

HOW TO: Age of Empires 3 Asian Dynasties Hard Difficulty – Act 2 Mission #2: Storming the Beaches

The Admiral has landed in India… and the Indians have taken the Admiral hostage.  The Indians have their base on one island and you have your base on another.

First clear your island to the east of any Indians.  After this setup your base, get max Age and max upgrades (you’ll thank me later).

Make sure to create a decent sized fleet of ships, around five is good.  You will need these ships to destroy his fleet and to lay waste to his army.  Fleets do very well against his army and have splash damage from their targeted ability.

When you get a maxed out army you can land them in the south to quickly take out the southern tower.  This will give you a few extra ships and a new objective.

Upon approach you can split up his army by landing your military units in the south after attacking in the north with your ships.  To complete this mission quickly just right click on his Town Hall.  With a maxed out army you will be able to blow down his Town Hall with relative ease.

Another objective requires you to destroy his entire fleet.  With the fleet reinforcements you get from destroying the southern tower this should be easy.

As another note these fleet reinforcements can use the Mortar ability to target down the Town Center without even really needing to fight.  If you send your hero in and have him die near the town hall you will have vision of it for your mortar.