Here are some articles I have written throughout the years. Most of them are quite old going back to high school.

Age of Empires III Data

, Gaming Articles, David Bond



Welcome, I hope you enjoy these data tables. Below you will see various civilizations shipments from age2 and age3 which can be quantified into villager seconds. I obviously have not included shipments such as +10% hp since these are non-quantifiable. If you are not familar with villager second here are some resources you might want to check out.

  • AoEIII Gather Rates
  • Some Old stuff from AOK, still a good read.
  • More AOK Stuffs
  • ....

    Also while these can be interesting do not base everything off of these charts since they look at the game from soley a statistical standpoint. For instance when I FF i use the 700 gold card and I gather over 700 wood while I am aging up. One might say woudlnt it be better if you sent the 700 wood card and gathered the 700 gold since you would be saveing 300!!! villager seconds. And well yes you are right however if you did the FF that way it is going to take you quite a while to get the the towers you need to defend yourself. Thus while you might get to the 3rd age faster you are going to be dead because you wont have anything to defend yourself. Similarly the 3 hussar card might seem very useless, but one can't forget how valuable it can be when used to do an early raid.

    Also with the mercs I have calculated their shipment worths and deduced the gold cost to ship them. There costs are based on their proto.xml costs and therefore are very sketchy on whether of not they are accurate.

    Finally all german shipments are inflated since the germans get uhlans, or extra units with their shipments. For shipments which recieve 2 uhlans that is an additional 462 VS and for 3 that is 692 VS. One must remember that other civs have bonuses that do not show up from this statitical viewpoint. For the french the CS worth represents Coureur seconds, since villager second do not accuratly represent their econominy. Very soon I will have a conversion factor to convert from a Coureur base to a settler base system. Right now I have 3 civilzations posted. More will come later. All Villager Second are based on the base gather rates.

    >>>>> NEW!!! Unit Villager Second Worth Data Page <<<<<



    Ottoman Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    11 Corsairs 2947
    10 Manchiri CA 2947
    7 Stradioits 2780
    5 Mamalukes 2613
    1000 Wood 2000
    2 Cannons 1733
    5 Hussars 1436
    5 Abus 1154
    4 Grendiers 1015
    5 Spahi 1015
    4 cavalry archers 997
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400
    700 Coin 1167
    700 Food 897
    3 Hussars 862
    5 Janissary 849
    Spanish Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    11 Highlanders 2947
    7 Stradioits 2780
    13 Swiss Pikemen 2747
    1000 Wood 2000
    14 Pikemen 1838
    6 Lancers 1746
    2 Cannons 1733
    10 Crossbows 1456
    5 Hussars 1436
    10 Roderlos 1417
    1000 Food 1282
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400
    700 Coin 1167
    8 Crossbows 1165
    8 Pikemen 1050
    7 Roderlos 992
    700 Food 897
    French Shipments VS Worth CS Worth
    AGE3
    9 Lands 2880 2031
    8 BR 2880 2031
    12 Jaegers 2880 2031
    13 Swiss Pikemen 2747 1923
    1000 Wood 2000 1613
    4 Cuirasiasirs 1769 1388
    2 Cannons 1733 1404
    1000 Gold 1667 1351
    6 Dragoons 1592 1249
    9 Skirmishers 1552 1223
    10 Crossbows 1456 1160
    10 Pikemen 1313 1030
    1000 Food 1282 962
    4 Hussars 1149 894
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400 1129
    700 Coin 1167 946
    8 Crossbows 1165 928
    700 Food 897 673
    3 Hussars 862 670
    German Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    10 BR 3780
    9 Hackapells 3780
    11 Lands 3680
    14 Jaegers 3480
    1000 Wood 2692
    1000 Gold 2359
    9 Skirmishers 2244
    5 Dops 2215
    10 Crossbows 2149
    9 Uhlan 2077
    3 WW 2019
    1000 Food 1974
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1862
    700 Coin 1628
    8 Crossbows 1627
    3 Dops 1375
    4 Lands 1360
    700 Food 1359
    5 Uhlan 1154
    Portuguese Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    11 Corsairs 2947
    7 Hackapells 2780
    5 Mamalukes 2613
    5 Ronin 2613
    3 Organ Guns 2100
    1000 Wood 2000
    1000 Gold 1667
    9 Halberdiers 1627
    6 Dragoons 1592
    11 Musketeers 1516
    10 Crossbows 1456
    10 Pikemen 1313
    1000 Food 1282
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400
    700 Coin 1167
    8 Crossbows 1165
    700 Food 897
    6 Musketeers 827
    Dutch Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    9 Lands 2880
    8 BR 2880
    7 Hackapells 2780
    13 Swiss Pikemen 2747
    1000 Wood 2000
    1000 Gold 1667
    10 Ryters 1635
    9 Halberdiers 1627
    9 Skirmishers 1552
    10 Pikemen 1313
    1000 Food 1282
    4 Hussars 1149
    4 Grendiers 1015
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400
    700 Coin 1167
    8 Pikemen 1050
    700 Food 897
    3 Hussars 862
    Russian Shipments VS Worth
    AGE3
    11 Highlanders 3280
    10 Manchiri CA 2947
    7 Hackapells 2780
    1000 Wood 2000
    2 Cannons 1733
    1000 Gold 1667
    9 Halberdiers 1627
    6 Grendiers 1523
    11 Musketeers 1516
    6 Cossacks 1327
    1000 Food 1282
    17 Strelets 1157
    4 cavalry archers 997
    AGE2
    700 Wood 1400
    700 Coin 1167
    5 Cossacks 1106
    700 Food 897
    13 Strelets 885