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The Church is a building in Age of Empires III where European colonies train their healing units such as Priests or Missionaries, and also trains Spies. It is also a source of many unique upgrades either provided by your civilization or unlocked in your Home City and shipped to the New World. The Ottomans are the only civilizations that cannot build the church but rather a mosque which is a unit unique to the Ottomans.

Improvements Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Bastion	400 Wood 600 Coin	Wall hitpoints +150%
2	Mission Fervor	200 Wood 200 Coin	Healer speed +15%, healer hitpoints +35%
2	Town Watch	200 Food	L.O.S. +2 for all units
2	Gas Lighting	100 Food	L.O.S. +4 for all buildings
2	Mercantilism	1500 Coin	2000xp toward the next shipment
4	Standing Army	350 Coin	Infantry train 25% faster
4	Mass Cavalry	750 Coin	Cavalry train 50% faster

Ottoman mosques feature these bonus upgrades -

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Millet System	300 Wood	Settlers train 8% faster
3	Koprulu Viziers	500 Food	Settlers train 4% faster
4	Abbasid Market	800 Coin	Settlers train 6% faster
2	Galata Tower District	400 Coin	Settler population limit from 25 to 45
3	Topkapi	400 Wood 400 Coin	Settler population limit from 45 to 70
4	Tanzimat	400 Food 400 Wood 400 Coin	Settler population limit from 70 to 99

Advanced Church Edit

Each civilization can ship an advanced church (or Mosque) from the Home City. When the player reaches a level 10 Home City, the advanced Church (or Mosque) enables improvements unique to its civilization. It should be noted that any large shipment of special units with a unique name, will cause that respective unit to change its name.

Knights of St. John Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Corselet	No cost	Heavy Infantry hitpoints +25%, but speed -15%
2	Tax Burden	No cost	Settler hitpoints -40%, but you receive 1 crate of 100 Coin for every minute the game has lasted (up to 30 minutes). Hp loss can be entirely offset by Market upgrades and the Pioneers card.
3	High Crusade	No cost	Shipment of 8 Hoop Throwers and boosts their attack by +20%, hitpoints by +25% but reduces all other military units hitpoints by -5%.

British Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Thin Red Line	No cost	Infantry hitpoints +20%, speed -25%
3	The Black Watch	1000 Food	Shipment of 8 Highlanders
4	Roger's Rangers	2000 Coin	Shipment of 26 Skirmishers

Dutch Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Coffee Trade	No cost	Bank limit +2, military speed -10%
3	Waardgelders	1000 Food	Shipment of 5 Stradiots
4	Stadhouders	2000 Coin	Shipment of 30 Musketeers

French Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Code Napoleon	No cost	Progressive law causes your villagers to gather all resources more quickly, However, the additional bureaucracy increases building cost. Villager: Changes Work Rate for Wood by 10% Villager: Changes Work Rate for Hunted Animals by 10% Villager: Changes Work Rate for Mill by 10% Villager: Changes Work Rate for Plantation by 10% Villager: Changes Work Rate for Mine by 10% Buildings: Changes Coin cost by 50.00% Buildings: Changes Wood cost by 50.00% Buildings: Changes Food cost by 50.00% Villager: Changes Work Rate for Berry Bush by 10%
2	Garde Imperial I	500 Food	Ships 4 Young Guard Grenadiers from the motherland. Delivers 4 Grenadier Veteran Grenadiers: Status set to active
3	Garde Imperial II	1000 Food	Ships 8 Middle Guard Grenadiers from the motherland. Any remaining Young Guard are upgraded to Middle Guard. Delivers 8 Grenadier Guard Grenadiers: Status set to Active
4	Garde Imperial III	2000 Food	Ships 15 Old Guard Grenadiers. Any remaining Middle Guard are upgraded to Old Guard. Delivers 15 Grenadier Middle Guard: Changes All Actions Damage by 10.00% Middle Guard: Changes Hitpoints by 10.00%

Germans Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Tilly's Discipline	No cost	Infantry speed +20%, Infantry training cost +10%
3	Wallenstein's Contracts	4000 Coin	All home shipment mercenaries cost no coin. Does NOT apply to Saloon mercenaries.
4	Zweihander	2000 Coin	Shipment of 12 Doppelsoldner, all Doppelsoldner hitpoints +10%

Ottomans Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
3	Tufanci Corps	1000 Wood	Shipment of 15 Janissaries
4	Topcu Corps	1500 Food	Shipment of 3 Great Bombards

Portuguese Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Encomienda Manor	No cost	Villagers work faster at mills +20%, but -5% slower at everything else
3	Besteiros	2000 Wood	Shipment of 22 crossbowman, crossbowman attack +30%
4	Order of the Tower and Sword	2000 Coin	Shipment of 11 Black Riders

Russians Edit

Age	Icon	Research	Cost	Explanation
		Westernization	900	All units upgraded to Veteran
		Petrine Reforms	2500	All units upgraded to Guard
		Kalmucks	1000	Ships 9 Dragoons
		Bashkir Ponies	2000	Ships 17 Guard Hussars

Spanish Edit

Age	Improvement	Cost	Explanation
2	Corselet	No cost	Heavy Infantry hitpoints +25%, but speed -15%
3	Quatrefage	1000 Wood	Shipment of 13 Halberdiers
4	Wild Geese	2000 Wood	Shipment of 10 Hackapell