The Aztecs have the Healing Dance (all idle units automatically regenerate health) to compensate for the limit on Warrior Priests, and the Garland War Dance to spawn the free Skull Knights.Īdditionally, each Native Civilization has its share of unique technologies. The Sioux have the Fire Dance, which increases unit damage to buildings and ships to mitigate their lack of siege weapons, and the War Song Dance, which produces free Dog Soldier cavalry. The Iroquois have the unique Founder Dance, which spawns new Travois, and the Earth Mother Dance, which increases maximum population. The dances can be learned through Home City shipments are The Town Dance which improves building HP and attack, and the Water Dance which improves naval combat. By tasking villagers dance at the Pit, a range of up to ten dances per civilization are available. Other new tribes include the Klamath, the Apache, the Navajo and the Mapuche.Ī Fire Pit is available to all Native civilizations. The Huron replaced the Iroquois, the Cheyenne replaced the Lakota (Sioux) and the Zapotec replaced the Aztec. Other additions to the game include new minor native tribes: the expansion increases the original game's 12 tribes to 16.

Typically the type of bonus remains the same (extra units, bonus resources) and new candidates become available at higher home city levels.

The candidates offer higher bonuses at later ages.

The tribal council is present in the game when a native civilization advances in age (replacing the politician system of the European civilizations) the player can select to promote a candidate to the Tribal Council and this confers a bonus on the player. They all offer different units, supports, and improvements. While the Aztecs have a home city, the Iroquois and Sioux have five members of the Tribal Council: the Chief, the War Leader, the Shaman, the Wise Woman, and the Messenger. Instead, there are a number of new concepts introduced, whilst existing concepts have been expanded.

There are no major changes to the mechanics to Age of Empires III - players are still expected to gather resources, build armies and send them to attack opponents.

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