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This article is about the native Asian religious settlement featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. For the alliance available to the Ethiopians, see Jesuits.

โ€œA wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.โ€
—Baltasar Graciรกn, Spanish Jesuit

The Jesuit Mission is a native Asian religious settlement featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post at their Trading Post site.

Unit[]

  • Conquistador aoe3de Conquistador: European adventurer armed with a gun and riding horseback. Good against cavalry.

Technologies[]

Jesuit technologies focus on villagers training time reductions, gunpowder and artillery unit damage, and building hit points.

Age Technology Cost Effect
Age I tech tree aoe3
Flying Buttress Flying Buttress 250 wood
250 coin
Buildings get +20% hit points
Smokeless Powder Smokeless Powder 250 food
250 coin
Gunpowder infantry and gunpowder cavalry get +10% attack; artillery get +5% attack
Christian Schools Christian Schools 100 wood
100 coin
Land villager train time -15%

Strategy[]

The Flying Buttress technology gives all buildings 20% more hit points. The Smokeless Powder technology gives infantry and gunpowder cavalry +10% damage, and artillery an additional 5%. This technology favors a rush with gunpowder units, especially with strong gunpowder units such as the Japanese Ashigaru Musketeer. This gives a special plus to the Ottomans due to their great quantity of gunpowder and artillery units, and to the United States for its wide variety of gunpowder infantry units. However, this improvement has little or no effect with the Incas and Aztecs, since they lack gunpowder and artillery. Finally, the Christian Schools technology decreases villager creation speed by 15%. It has a substantial effect in civilizations that have Medicine or have unique villagers (such as the French Coureur des Bois and the German Settler Wagon).

The Jesuit military unit is the Conquistador, a deadly gunpowder unit against cavalry with decent area damage that can be used in running tactics. This unit is especially useful for civilizations that excel in cavalry and gunpowder, such as the Germans, Lakota, and Ottomans. In general, the Jesuits favor the 3 basic strategies when reinforcing buildings, increasing the damage output of gunpowder and artillery units, improving the effect of these in combat, and increasing economic production to allow creating villagers at greater speed.

history[]

โ€œThis Holy Site is identical to a Native Trade Site. Allying with Natives allows a player to train special Native units, usually warriors, and also grants access to a group of improvements to that tribe. Native units do not cost any population spaces, but can only be built in limited numbers.

The Jesuits are an order of Roman Catholic men who follow the Latin phrase: Ad majorem Dei gloriam, meaning "for the greater glory of God." The order's primary goal has been to spread the teachings of the church, and in doing so it has made lasting contributions in the fields of education and scholarship.

Founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 and confirmed by Pope Paul III in 1540, the Jesuits original mission was to travel to the Holy Land and convert all of the Muslims to Christianity, but with the outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire, the plan never came to fruition. Instead, the order subjected its authority to the will of the Pope and became missionaries wherever they were needed. Missions were established in India and Japan, into the interior of China, and along the coast of Africa. Perhaps the most well known Jesuit missionaries lived and taught in the New World, where they created reductions, village communities under their spiritual guidance and leadership.

As many in the order voyaged abroad, scores of Jesuits traveled throughout Europe building communities and doing their best to embolden the Counter Reformation movement, strengthening Roman Catholicism and weakening the growing Protestant threat. By 1740, more than 650 Jesuit universities had been founded across the continent, as well as 200 seminaries and academies of religious study.
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Civilizations in Age of Empires III
AfricanFlag Ethiopian aoe3de Ethiopians ยท Flag Hausa Hausa
AmericanFederal American: Flag MexicanDE Mexicans ยท Flag American act3 aoe3de United States
Native American: Flag AztecDE Aztecs ยท Flag IroquoisDE Haudenosaunee (formerly Iroquois) ยท Flag IncanDE Inca ยท Flag SiouxDE Lakota (formerly Sioux)
AsianFlag ChineseDE Chinese ยท Flag IndianDE Indians ยท Flag JapaneseDE Japanese
EuropeanFlag BritishDE British ยท Flag DutchDE Dutch ยท Flag FrenchDE French ยท Flag GermanDE Germans ยท Flag ItalianDE Italians ยท Flag MalteseDE Maltese ยท Flag OttomanDE Ottomans ยท Flag PortugueseDE Portuguese ยท Flag RussianDE Russians ยท Flag SpanishDE Spanish ยท Flag SwedishDE Swedes ยท Polish ยท Danes
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AfricanAkan Settlement Icon Akan ยท Berber Settlement Portrait Berbers ยท Somali Settlement Portrait Somalis ยท Sudanese settlement portrait Sudanese ยท Yoruba settlement portait Yoruba
AsianBhakti aoe3de Bhakti Temple ยท Jesuit aoe3de Jesuit Mission ยท Native shaolin site icon portrait Shaolin Temple ยท Sufi aoe3de Sufi Mosque ยท AOE3DE Tengri Tengri Shrine ยท Udasi aoe3de Udasi Temple ยท Zen aoe3de Zen Temple
EuropeanBourbon icon portrait-1 House of Bourbon ยท Habsburg icon portrait-1 House of Habsburg ยท Hanover icon portrait-1 House of Hanover ยท Jagiellon icon portrait-1 House of Jagiellon ยท Oldenburg icon portrait-1 House of Oldenburg ยท Phanar icon portrait-1 House of Phanar ยท Vasa icon portrait-1 House of Vasa ยท Wettin icon portrait-1 House of Wettin ยท Wittelsbach icon portrait-1 House of Wittelsbach
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