But before exploring the New World, Admiral Jinhai, the cold and power-hungry nephew to the Chinese Emperor, hopes to become emperor of the new lands. The story mainly focuses on Huang Jian, a Ming captain who dreamed of seeing the outside world, and his partner, Lao Chen, a powerful sailor and friend of Jian Huang, who are given orders to help expand the Ming Dynasty. This Chinese campaign focuses loosely on the 1421 hypothesis concerning the Chinese discovery of the New World before Christopher Columbus. Despite this, Kichiro continues to follow Tokugawa because he is his master. Kichiro eventually learns that Tokugawa destroyed his home when he was a baby and murdered his parents. It mainly concentrates on the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which players will control a young general, named Sakuma Kichiro, the 'adopted son' of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who leads numerous scenarios before the Battle of Sekigahara. This Japanese campaign focuses on the unification of Japan, which was also a minor campaign in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. Furthermore, these campaigns return to the historical, civilization-based single-player campaigns, which are different from the past campaigns in the Age of Empires III series. There are three new campaigns, one for each new civilization. New characters from The Asian Dynasties campaigns Himalayas, Mongolia, Siberia, Silk Road, Yellow River They include:ĭeccan, Himalayas, Silk Road, Upper Himalyasĭeccan, Himalyas, Upper Himalyas, Indochina, Borneoĭeccan, Himalayas, Upper Himalayas, Ceylon New mercenary units are added, and can be trained at the Monastery, or sent as Cards from the Home City. Besides European alliances, the player can ally through with Asian Isolation movements. The Asian civilizations all have the ability to build a Consulate to form an alliance with major European powers and exchange Export in return for military units, buildings, and additional technologies. The expansion also introduces Water Treasures that only naval units can gather. In addition, it adds six new minor civilizations: the Sufis, the Shaolin, the Zen, the Udasi, the Bhakti, and the Jesuit. The Asian Dynasties adds three new major civilizations:

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