Japanese

Japanese
Music theme
File:Apple.mp3
General
Home City	Tokyo
Personality	Emperor Meiji
Cultural aspects
Culture	Asians
Culture's traits	Consulate Wonders
Consular allies	American Dutch Isolationism Portuguese
Gameplay
Main traits	Offensive Economic Boom Military Quality
Religions	Buddhism Shinto Taoism
Unique entities
Unique units	See Unique Units
Unique buildings	See Unique Buildings

"No hunting allowed. Shrines attract animals and generate resources. Can send most Shipments twice. Infantry units deal siege damage in melee. Best at: Infantry and Military Booming." ― In-game description.

Overview

The Japanese are an Asian civilization featured in Age of Empires III: Wars of Liberty, as a reworked version of the original Japanese civilization from Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

The Japanese in Wars of Liberty are based on the XIX century Japanese Empire, a major power in Asia which emerged after Emperor Meiji and Imperialists achieved victory in the Boshin War. As such, most changes to the Japanese in the mod have modernized their visuals to fit the new, more modern era.

Features

• Huntables trickle resources at shrines
• Can train Gensuis, which can receive shipments and train military units
• All Japanese infantry deal siege damage in melee
• Starts with three Cherry Orchard rickshaws
• Villagers cannot gather food from animals and have a lower train limit (75).
• Most Home City cards can be sent twice

Unique Units

Miko: Japanese priestess-explorer. Uses a bow and can dodge attacks.
Geisha: Simplified version of the Spy. Can be trained at the Town Center.
Gensui: Unit that can boost other units in combat, train units and receive shipments.
Kihei: Skirmisher that costs wood instead of coin.
Shaguma Musketeer: Fast moving, Heavy Infantry version of the Line Infantry.
Samurai: Hand Infantry unit with area damage.
Gunto Rider: Heavy Cavalry unit. Excels versus Skirmishers and Archers.
Yabusame: Cavalry archer, good against Heavy Cavalry and Artillery.
Kanouhou: Weak cannon that is good against Infantry and buildings en masse.
Morutaru: Anti-building artillery.
Fune: Good at exploring, fishing or transport.
Atakabune: Slow ship resistant to building fire that can train units.
Joukisen: Heavy warship.

Unique Buildings

Shrine: Unique Japanese House, huntables trickle resources at it, and provides technologiess to upgrade the Miko.
Cherry Orchard: Can be harvested for Food.
Dojo: Generates armies automatically. Configure it to produce different things. Can only be sent from the Home City.

Wonders

Golden Pavillion: Increases the attack of ranged land units, the attack of hand units, the speed of all land units, or the hitpoints of all land units. Configure it to give bonuses to different things.
Great Buddha: Casts the Informers spell which reveals the enemy's positions to you.
Shogunate: Decreases training time and cost of land military units.
Torii Gates: Increases the experience point build bounty for training units and constructing buildings and the bounty for defeating enemy units and buildings.
Toshogu Shrine: Acts as a giant Shrine and increases the amount of resources that Shrines generate. Supports 20 population.

Consulate

• American
• Dutch
• Isolationism
• Portuguese

Bonus: Research time -10%

Shipments

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Benevolent Assimilation		All your current Food is exchanged for a lesser amount of Export
	Most Favored Nation		All your current Wood is exchanged for a lesser amount of Export
	Treaty Amity Commerce		All your current Coin is exchanged for a lesser amount of Export
	American Brigade	2400	Ships 14 Marines, 4 Cavalry Corps and 2 Gatling Guns

Armies

Age	Army	Cost	Pop	Composition
	American Expeditionary Company	400	6	6 Marines
	American Expeditionary Force	800	14	6 Marines and 4 Mounted Rifles
	American Expeditionary Army	1600	22	9 Mounted Rifles and 2 Gatling Guns

Bonus: 0.8 /s trickle

Shipments

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Capitol Wagon	150	Ships 1 Capitol Wagon
	Bank Wagon	450	Ships 1 Bank Wagon
	Arsenal Wagon	300	Ships 1 Arsenal Wagon
	Dutch Brigade	2400	Ships 11 Marechaussee Ruyters, 13 Flankeurs and 2 Mortars

Armies

Age	Army	Cost	Pop	Composition
	Dutch Expeditionary Company	400	5	5 Marechaussee Ruyters
	Dutch Expeditionary Force	800	12	5 Marechaussee Ruyters and 7 Zwarte Hollanders
	Dutch Expeditionary Army	1600	23	15 Zwarte Hollanders and 2 Mortars

Bonus: +5% attack for land units

Shipments

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Military Rickshaw	100	Ships 1 Military Rickshaw
	Bushido Principles	250	Units can be trained in blocks of 10
	Clan Offerings	400	Each Castle spawns 1 Samurai after 45 seconds
	Meiji Restoration	4000	Advances to the Imperial Age without having to build a wonder

Armies

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop
	Onna-Bushi	60	1
	Yakuza	80
	Shinsengumi	160	4
	Hatamoto Samurai	290

Bonus: Buildings (including wonders) cost -15% and -15%

Shipments

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Fishing Fleet	250	Ships 3 Fishing Boats
	Exploration Fleet	425	Ships 1 Caravel with 3 Petards
	Expeditionary Fleet	700	Ships 1 Ironclad
	Portuguese Brigade	2400	Ships 19 Academico Rangers, 18 Ultramarinos and 2 Culverins

Armies

Age	Army	Cost	Pop	Composition
	Portuguese Expeditionary Company	400	7	7 Academico Rangers
	Portuguese Expeditionary Force	800	15	7 Academico Rangers and 4 Lusitano Dragoons
	Portuguese Expeditionary Army	1600	24	8 Lusitano Dragoons and 2 Culverins

Gallery

The Japanese Home City.

Emperor Meiji, in-game Japanese leader.

Battle of Yalu River.

Japanese Shinsengumi.

Gensui (replace for the Daymio): Nagaoka Gaishi, Ito Hirobumi, Oyama Iwao, Yamagata Aritomo and Saigo Takamori.

Japanese Isolation Showcase: Shinsengumi, Yakuza and Onna-bushi.

Gensui Oyama in-game.

Japanese Reborn: Kihei, Shaguma Musketeer and Gunto Rider.

Changelog

• 1.0.13c

-They got new voicesets actually spoken by japanese people!

Portals

• Civilizations
• Minor Allies
• Religions

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