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Age of Empires III is a game where you command one of eight mighty powers grappling to conquer the New World in this new generation of the landmark Age of Empires series.

Experience the Age of Discovery through amazing 3D graphics. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons and rifled infantry. Navigate your naval fleet to claim strategic waterways. Build cities with towering cathedrals, and forge a thriving empire with a booming economy.

What’s New:
Version 1.0.2:

• Fixed a memory problem in the tech tree system.
• Reduced semaphore timeout values in the SFX system which could lead to a rare brief halt during gameplay.
• Increased the size of the MP3 decoding buffers to reduce music drop-outs.
• Fixed a crash on the Client if a timeout occurs while trying to connect to the Host.
• Fixed a crash in the map data transfer system when the Host sends 3rd party map data to the Clients.
• GameRanger: Improved the UI for creating new Home Cities.
• GameRanger: GR games no longer require the use of the OverrideAddress IP setting. It is now recommend that you only use this setting for Direct IP games.
• About… box may no longer be displayed multiple times.
• CMD-Q now displays a dialog asking if the user wants to quit the game.
• The Mac codebase is now in sync with version 1.11 of the PC Age 3 software.
• Addressed some possible exploits and added further file validation (PC 1.11).
• Changed effect when a unit is healed to be less resource intensive and obstructing (PC 1.11).
• Several low level network optimizations have been added (PC 1.10).
• Fixed a recorded game Out of Sync issue involving Mac 1.0 & 1.0.1 games with high level home cities (PC 1.10).
• Decks are now limited to 32 per home city (PC 1.10).
• After each game players will now be granted bonus experience, meaning all Home Cities will now level up faster (PC 1.09).
• The experience requirement to level up Home Cities that are level 100 or higher has decreased (PC 1.09).
• The Russian card Ransack no longer effects teammates (PC 1.09).

Balance Changes

• Spain: Shipment bonus changed to .73 (PC 1.11).
• Spain: Wardogs damage reduced to 15, but they get a 20% bonus vs. guardians (PC 1.11).
• German: Uhlan +10% Ranged Resistance (PC 1.11).
• British: Longbowmen get 1.25 bonus damage vs. heavy infantry (PC 1.11).
• Portuguese: Organ Guns get +10% damage, +2 range, and +4 LOS (PC 1.11).
• Ottomans: Abus guns get 0.75 damage vs. artillery (PC 1.11).
• Ottomans: Abus guns get 1.5 bonus damage vs. heavy infantry (PC 1.11).
• Ottomans: Abus guns Ranged Resistance reduced to 20% (PC 1.11).
• Russians: Cossacks +10% Ranged Resistance (PC 1.11).
• Reduced Spanish shipment bonus (PC 1.10).
• Reduced Longbowmen ranged attack by 2 (PC 1.10).
• Reduced Longbowmen hand attack by 1 (PC 1.10).

Developer’s website: MacSoft