#Age of empires 3 best units upgrade#

You may have to turn this on, theres a setting under Game Options which shows advanced upgrade or research information, not sure if its needed.Īlso If you are in the industrial age it is well worth spending the additional coin on horse guns, these will kill the enemies faster, meaning they are dead sooner giving them less time to kill your cannons, thus you will save more cannon, so they practically pay for themselves.

[This message has been edited by Nich573 (edited 04-21-2012 02:07 for agreeing with me, i do realise you can upgrade both cossacks and cuirassairs with shipments and treasures but im not including that because that can change depending on what map you are on, if you have allies with team cav cards, etc.Īlso the reason for abus guns getting upgraded by artillary cards is because it says under the card something like If a Dragoon dies you lose all your firepower. Now please stop saying cuirassairs beat cossacks and that goons beat ruyters because you are obviously wrong when you do the math But if a ruyter dies you lose half your firepower. Russians CAN do this but can also use their musketeers to build forts, which are much stronger, faster to build and are easy to be built in enemy territory making it much easier to get your cav into combat. Their average dammage is now 104ĭmg:104+ (+area from having 3 fighting at once)Ĭan be made to train instantly on Mongolia.Īlso when trying to get them into action french setlers must move foward to build the stables leaving them highly vulnerable. Now while all 3 are fighting they will have an average of 156 for the first third of their life 104 for the second and 52 for the third allthough this would be different if you deal damage to all of them equally. Now cossacks have 450 health mutliplyed by 3 is 1350 health. To start with the cossack is slightly faster than the cuirassaier and the cuirassier resists slightly more than the cossack. So from this the ruyter is far superior, even if you consider that the goon resists 20% more ranged damage meaning that even in an ideal situation for the goon its health could be represented by 480 relative to the ruyter, so in almost every condition this is better. To make this a fair comparrison 1 goon to 2 ruyters we need to double the health of the ruyter making it 588, next their damage, for the first half of their 2 lives they will do 68 damage followed by 29 making their average 48.5ĭmg=48.5+ (keep in mind that if they are spreading their fire between the two units than this will be much higher) These two units are practically identical apart from health and damage.

Ranged: 16 / 22 / 29, range 12, 3x Cavalry, 0.5x Settler, 2x Artillery I'm basing this off of the imperial versionĬivilizations: Spanish, British, French, Portuguese About the goons vs ruyters and cossacks vs curissairs, this is the stats on these units (sorry if they are slightly off i dled them and am too lazy to check if they are correct )

Age of empires 3 best units