{"id":774,"date":"2007-10-05T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/05\/asian-dynasties-demo\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T17:34:45","slug":"asian-dynasties-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/05\/asian-dynasties-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Dynasties Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can get the demo of <em>Age of Empire s III: Asian Dynasties<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agecommunity.com\/all_downloads_tad.aspx\">over here<\/a>. It has a single campaign mission and one new Civ, the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese will pose some interesting problems for Age players. First, no hunting allowed. Animals are used to increase the productive output of shrines instead. Build a shrine near a herd and watch them graze peacefully. So you could, theoretically, slow your Japanese enemy by just killing all the animals in his\/her territory. The Japanese have lots of other food possibilities, though. Shrines can be used to create a trickle of any resource and rice paddies can be used to produce food or coin. Rickshaws sent from the Home City can spawn cherry orchards, a durable supply of fruity goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the daimyo unit can build soldiers wherever he is, making him a prime target for elimination. I like the idea of a single unit spawning an army out of nowhere; it will be fun to sneak a daimyo behind enemy lines and then hit him\/her with seven samurai.<\/p>\n<p>The consulate, a new building for all the Asian nations, allows for some more familiar units to enter the fray. You choose an ally and get some of their units in exchange for &#8220;exports&#8221;, a new resource that only the Asians get to collect. Naturally, you can upgrade your export exchange rate or switch allies for a price. As you age up you get access to better foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sort of disappointed that they led with the Japanese. Sure, the idea of ninjas running around killing everything sounds sweet, but Ming China and Mughal India are just more interesting to me. I guess I&#8217;ll have to wait a few weeks to get my elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get the demo of Age of Empire s III: Asian Dynasties over here. It has a single campaign mission and one new Civ, the Japanese. The Japanese will pose some interesting problems for Age players. First, no hunting allowed. Animals are used to increase the productive output of shrines instead. Build a shrine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}