Microsoft Age of Empires III Manual download pdf (Page 42)

Using Your Explorer

An Explorer is a unique unit with specialized capabilities:

Sharpshooter Your Explorer can pick off Treasure

guardians with a single shot.

Trading Posts An Explorer can construct Trading

Posts on Trade Routes to boost

your economy.

Immortal Your Explorer can be hit and wounded

but never dies.

Click the Find Explorer icon on the Mini Map to locate

your Explorer.

Use your Explorer to reveal the uncharted areas of your

map and seek out:

Treasure.

Enemy or allied-player encampments.

Key territorial locations, such as mines.

Sites for new Town Centers.

By keeping your Explorer and military units together

and forming Explorer parties, they can back each other

up when taking out a Treasure guardian or taking on an

enemy scouting party.

Three principal resources—Food, Wood, and Coin—form

the foundation of your economy.

Villagers farm for Food, forage for Wood, and mine

for Coin.

Explorers gather Treasure that contains Food, Wood,

or Coin. Oftentimes, Explorers must battle a Treasure

guardian before claiming the Treasure.

Finding & Gathering Resources

As your villagers and Explorers explore the landscape,

you’ll discover sources of Food (such as sheep, deer, and

ﬁsh), Wood (trees), and Coin (mines).

Stockpiled resources of Food, Wood, and Coin help you

pay for improvements that make your civilization more

powerful.

Tracking Your Current Resources

The Resource panel, at the lower-left of your screen,

monitors the real-time values and levels of your Food,

Wood, and Coin stockpiles. It also tracks your village’s

real-time population against its population limit.

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Microsoft Age of Empires III Manual Page 42