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Age of Empires III Cheats and Tips

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We have plenty of cheats for you to look through including easy level up in single player, unlocking hidden units through Editor mode and a collection of cheat codes for you to enter.


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Age of Empires III Passwords

Press the 'Enter' Key and enter the following codes

No Fog of War:

X marks the spot

Gives 10,000 Wood:

If you don't see what we typed above it really is the word: censored within these brackets <>. This is discussed in more detail on the question and answer page.

Gives 10,000 Food:

Medium Rare Please

Gives 10,000 Coin:

give me liberty or give me coin

Gives 10,000 XP:

Nova & Orion

Turns on 100x Gather/Build Rates:

Speed always wins

When you get killed by Musketeers turn on 'Musketeer�ed!':

Sooo Good

Spawns the Mediocre Bombard at your Home City Gather Point:

Ya gotta make do with what ya got

All Animals on Map are Fattened:..


Easy Money and Resources Glitch

Get 20,000 in coin, wood, and food for the single-player campaigns by performing the following glitch. Start your campaign and save the game immediately it begins. Click 'Menu', resign, and go back to the gameplay menu. Select 'Single Player', then 'Skirmish', and start a new Skirmish mode game. The skirmish will begin with 20,000 in ALL three resources. Click 'Menu', then 'Load', then choose the Campaign mode game that you just saved. If done correctly the game will resume with your resources at 20,000 each.


Cheat Codes

Hit the ENTER key and key in the code

It will be listed as follows:

Code

Effect

X marks the spot

Reveals map (fog of war still there)

Medium Rare Please

Gives 10,000 food

Give me liberty or give me coin

Gives 10,000 coin

Nova & Orion

Gives 10,000 XP

A recent study indicated that 100% of herdables are obese

Fattens all animals on map

Speed always wins

Turns on 100x gather/build rates

Sooo Good

Turn on �Musketeer�ed!� when you get killed by Musketeers

Ya gotta make do with what ya got

Spawns the Mediocre Bombard at your Home City gather point

Gives 10,000 wood

This is too hard

..


Easy Level Up in Single Player

Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file in the My DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3Savegame (dont forget to make a back up first) folder. Open the file up in Notepad through 'Open With:' by right-clicking the file. Search for .

You will see something like this xx, put in 99 for the xx, save the file, go into the game and play a skirmish. Now you are level 99!


Tommynator

If you have this game you are lucky because tommy is coming your way. There is only a simple step or 2 in getting this awesome destroyer. First go to chat and type in

Tuck tuck tuck

The reason I am doing this is because this game requires exact spelling. Then yuo click okay and then you are ready to win some wars. Hope this cheat helps.


George Crushington

George Crushington is a giant statue head of George Washington. Once summoned he can headbutt enemies on a a 1-hit KO, destroy villagers and buildings by running over them, and burn things by breathing fire. To summon him you must do the following:

1. Enter a battle

2. Press ENTER

3. Enter the code: Where's that axe?

4. Press ENTER again to confirm

You now have a monumental titan under your control. You can summon as many as you want, there is no limit. Enjoy!


Heres some codes for you guys and girls

Codes are in caps like THIS and do the codes when pressed the enter button.

10000 coins= GIVE ME LIBERTYOR GIVE ME COIN

10000 food= MEDIUM RARE PLEASE

10000 wood=

10000 xp= NOVA & ORION

Reveals map= X MARKS THE SPOT

Wins single player= THIS IS TOO HARD

Turns on 100x gather/ building rates= SPEED ALWAYS WINS


Bombard that shoots Rodents!

Here is another amazing cheat that is used for this game. A bombard that shoots rodents, it gives you a laugh and gives your enemy a fright. Here is the cheat

Ya gotta make do with what ya got

Go to the chat box. Type in this text exactly then just click okay. Now you have a rodent shooting bombard to win some wars, hope this helps


10,000 Coin

Give me liberty or give me coin


Reasorce cheats!!!!!!

10,000 wood-

10,000 coin- give me liberty or give me coin

10,000 food- medium rare please


Wood cheat

The cheat to get 10,000 wood is:

< censored >

p.s. no spaces between the < and the c or the d and the >.


Age of Empires games Cheats

While in chat mode put on that:

Tuck tuck tuck:Will appear a Crazy car in your Towm Center

Speed Always Wins:all the villagers will get things and face things fast and improvements(and other things)in one blow of second will end

Give me Liberty or give me coin:give's you 10000 coins.


Cheats

10,000 Coin:

Give me liberty or give me coin

10,000 Wood:

10,000 food:

Medium Rare Please


Codes

Press enter and the type in these codes:

X marks the spot = No fog of war

Medium Rare Please = Gives 10,000 food

Give me liberty or give me coin = Gives 10,000 coin

Nova & Orion = Gives 10,000 XP

A recent study indicated that 100% of herdables are obese = Fattens all animals on map

Speed always wins = Turns on 100x gather/build rates

Gives 10,000 wood

Tuck tuck tuck = Gives you a big red monster truck that can run over anything. this is too hard = Win in singleplayer


Money cheat

To get 10000 coin push enter and type in "give me liberty or give me coin".


Unlock Hidden Units through Editior Mode

You may have noticed that some units like Fluffy, Lazerbear, Monster Truck A, Laericorn, and Flying Purple Tapir don't have codes. But they can are still in the game and can be used.

Got to editor and place a unit on the map. Select the 'Replace Unit' command under 'Objects' in the drop down menu. A box will pop-up allowing you to replace the unit with any of the things listed. Choose Fluffy, Lazerbear, Monster Truck A, Laericorn, or Flying Purple Tapir and press OK. You will then see the figure on the map. Press 'Save once you are done and play the scene you created.


Unlimited Resources

Use a text editor to edit the "proto.xml" file in the "data" directory in the game folder.

Note: You may first need to uncheck the "Read Only" attribute of that file's properties in Windows Explorer. Search for the text "CrateOf".

You will find CrateofFood, CrateofCoin, CrateofWood, CrateofFoodLarge, CrafteofCoinLarge, and CrateofWoodLarge. For all these entries, find the tag "InitialResourceCount" and change the count to whatever desired.

For example, the normal crates each have "100.000" of the resources. You can change the "100" to "99999.000", etc.


Big/huge Armies

First take not that you best make a backup of the file we are about to modify...

Here goes: First go to C:Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires III/data

Then open the XML Document file called "proto" with Notepad. There just use Ctrl+F to bring up the search option and enter "PopulationCount" and search down, then next to that you will see a number, for example the Settler will be 1, Settlerwagon 2...etc. So simply change that number; if you change it all to 1 for every unit, then you can have an army of 200+ men, but be careful though, because if you change siege weapons to a very low number, then you might get an unpleasant attack of the enemy busting in your town with dozens of siege weapons, but either way this makes the game more pleasant and also more ..


Easy Wins

First,you must make a factory,when you complete it enter the code "Speed Always Wins",then,use the settlers given to you at the start of the game to build houses untill you reach the maximum population of two-hundred,next,switch your factory from gold to artillary,and when you reach the maximum amount of artillary,enter the code"X marks the spot",last,take your artillary and attack your enemy. p.s.this will only work in Deathmatch.

-I look like Edward Elric,and you look like a worm demon.


Unstoppable force

For this to work, you need to have used the wood, coin, and food cheat. Then build from the range of 10 -15 manors. Then buld some unit making buildings. Then just keep on selecting the type of unit you want and soon you will have a force that will conquer any foe.


Messing around

Open your proto.xml file in your Age of Empires Folder with notepad. Ctrl-F to search, type Straight or Straight Wall. These are the walls that go around your city when you build them, alter these to be indestructible by adding two lines of text. The Firstline anywhere you see the appear just press enter to make a space, and make sure that you tab over enough to line up with the other lines of text. Type invulnerable and on the next line type DoNotDieAtZeroHitpoints. Do the same thing on the search for all of the walls, the number should have Straight Wall 1- till you have them all, just don't close the searhc bar and keep hitting enter when you finish one, so it takes you to the next wall. When done look for the Wall Connector in the search bar, ..


Unlock Single Player Points for Props

You'll have to do some messing with your files on this one.

Got to My Documents/My Games/Age of Empires3/Savegame (make a backup/copy of this file first in case something goes wrong, you'll be able to replace files then). Select the .xml file sp_yourcityname_homecity, right-click and select 'Open With >' and choose 'Notepad'. Scroll down until you see xx. For xx type in a high number. Highest is 999 (turst me, I tested how high it can go). Save the file and turn on your game. Got to your city and click got decorate your city. You should now have 999 (or what ever digit you chose) unlock points to unlcok props.


Easy unlock points for cards in SIngle Player

Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file located in My DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3Savegame (dont forget to make a backup of this file) through Notepad, find this line .

The line should look like this xx, where xx is the number of skillpoints you currently have. Change the xx to a high number such as 999, save the file and start Age of Empires 3. Go into a skirmish game, go to 'Buy Cards' in your city's main menu, and you will now have 999 unlock various cards of your choice for your deck


Unlimited Recources

Use a text editor to edit the "proto.xml" file in the "Data" directory in the game folder.

NOTE: You may first need to uncheck the "Read Only" attribute of that file's properties in Windows Explorer.

Search for the text "CrateOf". You will find CrateofFood, CrateofCoin, CrateofWood, CrateofFoodLarge, CrafteofCoinLarge, and CrateofWoodLarge. For all these entries, find the tag "InitialResourceCount" and change the count to whatever desired. For example, the normal crates each have "100.000" of the resources. You can change the "100" to "99999.000", etc.


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