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Age of Empires III Cheats

  • PC | Submitted by blythy

    George Crushington

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    Where's that axe?: Spawns a very powerful statue of George Washington.


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    Check out FileRadar's Age of Empires III section for all of the latest mods and patches!


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    Unlimited Unlock Points in Single player

    Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file located in \My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Savegame (dont forget to make a backup of this file) find this line .

    The line should look like this xx, where x 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 manage your city and you will now have 999 unlock points to unlock various things for your city.


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    Win in Singleplayer

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    this is too hard


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    Gives you a big red monster truck that c

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    tuck tuck tuck


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    Spawns the Mediocre Bombard at your Home

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    Turns on 100x Gather/build Rates

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    Speed always wins


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    Nova & Orion


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    No Fog of War

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    X marks the spot


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    Fattens all Animals on Map

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    A recent study indicated that 100% of herdables are obese


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    Gives 10,000 Food

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    Medium Rare Please


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  • PC | Submitted by Patrick Tewasart

    Easy Leveling in Single Player

    Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file in the My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Savegame (dont forget to make a back up first) folder, 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 !


  • PC | Submitted by Patrick Tewasart

    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.


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