Aizamk's Livestock all-in
Age of Empires 3 is the best RTS of all times thanks to all the weird bullshit builds one can pull off... said Lionheart. Here is one example of a triple barrack musketeer timing attack, courtesy of our lord and saviour Aizamk.
Game plan :
Leverage livestock present on maps with the card fulling mills to generate enormous amounts of food, allowing you to produce musketeers out of 3 barracks to overwhelm an unsuspecting opponent.
Age I :
TP+manor opener. Build the TP as soon as possible. Chop wood for a manor. Wood treasures as a priority until the manor is built, food treasures afterwards.
Ship 7 sheep+1 homestead wagon. Sheep are the slowest livestock to fatten so if you don't have enough space in the pen for all the livestock you have picked up on the map, consume sheeps. Age up with the naturalist at 14 settlers.
In transition put all but two settlers on wood. The remaining two will herd. Build two manors and bank 200 wood. Queue one settler. Keep looking for wood and XP treasures. Ship fulling mills as your second shipment.
Age II :
Build a barrack (forward or not). Task the two cows on the livestock pen. Eat the two animals they replace. Ship 700w as your third shipment. Remacro your villagers to 4 on food, 4 on coin, and the rest on wood. Keep building manor houses until you have 50 population space. Start producing musketeers from the barracks. New settlers on coin.
When the 700w arrives, take three wood settlers to gather the crates. The other wood gathering settlers build 2 more barracks and 2 more manors. Follow up with 7 semi fattened cows. Make room for the cows at the pen and eat the surplus livestock. Pull cows from the livestock pen to finish batches. Growing your deathball is a priority.
Produce musketeers out of your three barracks. Start pushing very hard and burn infrastructure.
Follow up :
Assess the situation and decide what to do.
- 600w : build manors and a market to keep sustaining your military production. Best if you want to contain.
- 600c : stop producing military and age up to ship 2 falconnets. Best if you can't break a turtle.
- Miliyary shipment : take the advantage in a fight.
