Greetings, commanders! Today's development diary focuses on the lifeblood of any Civilization: its military might. Here, we'll delve into the system of manpower, army structure, and troop recruitment, equipping you with the knowledge to wage war effectively.

Manpower: The Fuel for Your War Machine
Manpower represents the pool of potential recruits within your civilization. It serves as the critical resource for raising new armies and reinforcing existing ones, reflecting your nation's capacity to fight wars and defend its borders. Manpower replenishes naturally over time, fueled by population growth and recovery from past conflicts. This resource necessitates strategic planning. Campaigns must be waged with an eye on both current and future manpower availability.

The Wellspring of Soldiers: Your Provinces
Each province under your control contributes to your overall manpower pool. Provinces with high populations and specific terrain types may offer greater manpower potential. Strategically managing your provinces will ensure a steady flow of recruits to fuel your military ambitions.

It's Not Just About Numbers: Understanding Unit Types
Land units in Age of History 3 are categorized into three distinct groups: Front Line, Flank, and Support. These groupings determine their placement on the battlefield.

Front Line: The cornerstone of your army. These resilient units bear the brunt of enemy attacks and require high defensive capabilities.
Flank: Maneuvering forces that utilize flanking tactics to exploit enemy weaknesses and deal flanking damage.
Support: Units that provide a variety of specialized functions, such as ranged attacks, morale boosts, or siege warfare capabilities.

Selecting the right mix of units for your front and second lines is crucial. Frontline units should be hardy and able to withstand direct confrontation, while your second line can focus on ranged support or specialized functions.

Beyond Numbers: Understanding Unit Stats
Each unit possesses a unique set of attributes that define its battlefield performance:

Attack: Measures the unit's offensive capability in combat.
Defense: Represents the unit's ability to withstand enemy attacks.
Attack Range: Determines the distance at which the unit can engage the enemy.
Siege Effectiveness: Measures the unit's efficiency in capturing enemy provinces.
Movement Speed: Reflects the unit's mobility.

The Art of War: Recruitment and Technology
Creating a formidable army requires not just manpower but also resources. Each unit has a maintenance cost in gold, reflecting the expense of maintaining a professional fighting force. Units take time to recruit, so planning ahead and anticipating future conflicts is crucial.

Advanced military technology unlocks access to more powerful and specialized units. By researching new technologies, you can bolster your army with elite soldiers equipped with cutting-edge weaponry and tactics.

Leadership Matters:
Every army can be elevated by a capable leader. Generals appointed to command your forces offer tactical bonuses, increasing your army's attack and defense values. Choosing the right leader for your army's composition and battlefield situation can be the difference between victory and defeat.

The Limits of Power: Managing Army Size
The size of your standing army is limited by your civilization's economic strength and specific bonuses. Reaching the maximum regiment limit significantly increases army recruitment costs, forcing you to prioritize and optimize your military composition.

Choosing Your Weapons Wisely:
Manpower, unit types, and technology are the cornerstones of building a powerful army. Understanding these intricate systems will be essential for your success on the battlefield. Whether you prefer a balanced force, a heavy infantry assault, or a mobile flanking strategy, mastering these elements will allow you to forge a military machine capable of achieving your grandest ambitions.

Greetings, commanders! Today, we set our sights on the fortified walls that shield your enemies – sieges! These critical undertakings test your military might and strategic cunning as you strive to breach enemy defenses and claim victory.

Your army surrounds the enemy province, initiating a siege. Each day, the combined Siege Ability of all your participating units contributes to the siege progress.
The siege progress is pitted against the province's Defense level. The higher the province's defense, the longer it takes to wear down its fortifications.

Siege units play a crucial role in overcoming enemy defenses. Their Siege Ability directly translates into siege progress, hastening the day you breach the walls.

You gain control of the besieged province, allowing you to exploit its resources and strengthen your own nation.
This is where things get truly strategic. Neighboring provinces without defensive structures, like forts, fall under your control as well. This reflects the chaos and vulnerability that often follow a successful siege, creating a domino effect that can rapidly expand your domain.
The province will also be plundered.

This system underscores the vital role of fortifications in defensive strategies. Investing in forts for your own provinces not only bolsters their individual defense but also creates a defensive network that discourages enemy incursions and protects neighboring settlements.

The right mix of siege units can significantly accelerate your progress. Experiment with different combinations to find the optimal force for the situation.

Sieges are more than just brute force assaults. They are strategic tools that can tip the scales of war in your favor. By understanding the mechanics and leveraging them effectively, you can carve a path to glorious conquest.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we explore a cornerstone of your civilization's enduring legacy: Legacy Points and Civilization Legacies.

The Marks of Progress:
Legacy Points represent the accumulated achievements and milestones of your civilization. These points are earned through various means.

Building a Lasting Legacy:
Legacy Points are used to unlock Civilization Legacies, permanent bonuses that solidify your civilization's strengths and shape its future. These legacies encompass diverse areas, granting you advantages in administration, economics, military prowess, and diplomacy.

Investing in Your Empire:
Legacy Points have a broader application beyond unlocking legacies. They are also a vital resource for several critical actions within your empire. These include:

Recruiting Skilled Personnel: Hire talented generals and advisors to enhance your military leadership and governance.
Optimizing Your Provinces: Invest Legacy Points to increase tax efficiency and manpower in your provinces, bolstering your economic and military might.

Maximizing your Legacy Point gain is crucial. You can achieve this by:
Appointing Wise Advisors: Certain advisors specialize in boosting legacy point generation, providing long-term benefits to your civilization.
Monumental Construction: Construct specific buildings within your provinces that contribute to your legacy point income, further enriching your nation's legacy.

Administrative Legacies: Enhance your governance, bolstering your internal stability and efficiency.
Economic Legacies: Strengthen your economic backbone, generating greater wealth and resourcefulness.
Military Legacies: Fortify your military might, granting advantages in troop recruitment, training, and battlefield tactics.
Diplomatic Legacies: Sharpen your diplomatic edge, improving your foreign relations and influence on the world stage.
The Path to Greatness:
By wisely investing Legacy Points into these diverse benefits, you can forge a legacy that defines your civilization for generations to come. Choosing the right legacies will be crucial in shaping your nation's destiny and ensuring its dominance in the world.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we embark on a journey down the very foundation of advancement: the technology tree and Civilization Advantages. These systems offer the key to unlocking the full potential of your civilization, propelling it towards prosperity and dominance.

The sprawling tech tree serves as your roadmap to progress. Each unlocked technology brings a wealth of possibilities, including:

Construct innovative structures that enhance your provinces' capabilities, fostering economic growth, military might, and development.
Field powerful new units, adding depth and strategic options to your military strategies.
Implement innovative legal frameworks that shape your society.
Unlock new forms of government.
Gain access to previously untapped resources.

With over 96 technologies awaiting your exploration, the path to advancement is vast and exciting.

Researching these advancements doesn't happen overnight. To accelerate your progress, consider the following approaches:

Wise Advisors: Appoint an Innovation Advisor, their expertise speeding up your research efforts and shortening the time it takes to unlock new technologies.

Funding the Future: Allocate a significant portion of your budget to research. Increased funding directly translates to faster research progress.

Seats of Learning: Construct schools and libraries within your provinces. These institutions foster an environment of intellectual exploration, further bolstering your research capabilities.
Reaping the Rewards:

But the journey itself isn't the only prize. Each technology you unlock grants you a precious Advantage Point. These points represent your civilization's growing knowledge and expertise. Carefully spend them to acquire Civilization Advantages. These powerful perks will be crucial in shaping your nation's destiny.

Civilization Advantages offer a diverse range of benefits, becoming progressively more powerful as you delve deeper into the tech tree.

Wisely investing your Advantage Points will be instrumental in shaping your civilization's character and defining its path to dominance. By strategically choosing the right technologies and their associated advantages, you can unlock a future filled with progress, prosperity, and ultimate victory.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we delve into a cornerstone of civilization: the law system.

Each civilization possesses a unique legal framework, and as your nation progresses through the tech tree, you'll unlock a variety of innovative laws. These laws offer diverse benefits and represent the evolving legal landscape of your civilization.


This law set impacts your nation's economic system. As you progress, you can enact laws like:

Commodity Money: This basic system utilizes physical goods like grains or metals as currency.
Minted Coins: This introduces standardized coins, increasing stability and efficiency in trade.
Paper Currency: This allows for the adoption of paper money for transactions, further boosting economic flexibility.
Central Banking System: Establishing a central bank regulates currency and promotes economic growth.
Digital Currency: This law represents the cutting edge, implementing digital currencies and modern financial technologies.

Each law within this set will offer specific bonuses, such as increased income from production, improved production efficiency, or a higher maximum amount of gold you can hold.

This law set governs how you build your military.

Feudal Levies: This system relies on nobles providing troops to the monarch as part of their feudal duty.
Draft System: This enacts mandatory military service for all able-bodied citizens for a set period.
Selective Service: This allows the government to select individuals for service based on specific criteria.
Professional Volunteer Army: This system relies on voluntary enlistment to build your military force.
Professional Standing Army: Here, your military is comprised of well-trained, full-time professional soldiers.

These laws will impact various aspects of your military, such as increasing your maximum manpower pool, changing the time it takes to recruit units, boosting unit discipline, or raising the maximum level of your Military Academy.

Laws and Legacy
Remember, each law offers unique bonuses that complement your civilization's overall strategy. Choose your laws wisely, as they will shape your society and define its path to greatness.

Greetings, commanders! Today, I'm thrilled to unveil a feature inspired by the brilliant minds of our community – Battle Tactics! This exciting addition injects a layer of strategic depth into your military campaigns, allowing you to outmaneuver your foes and claim glorious victories.

Battle Tactics are specialized maneuvers employed by your armies on the battlefield. Each tactic offers unique advantages and drawbacks, empowering you to tailor your approach based on the situation. From weathering enemy assaults to flanking their formations, Battle Tactics give you the tools to exploit enemy weaknesses and seize the upper hand.


Units Attack: +0
Units Defense: +0
This tactic prioritizes minimizing casualties while maintaining pressure. Units advance cautiously, maintaining their standard attack power while receiving a defensive bonus. It's ideal for closing the distance on a weakened enemy or weathering a heavy enemy assault.

Units Attack: -2
Units Defense: +3
This tactic transforms your army into an unyielding wall. Units take a penalty to their attack power but gain a significant defensive boost. This tactic is perfect for fortifying a position, protecting key objectives, or blunting the momentum of a charging enemy force.

Units Attack: +3
Units Defense: -2
This tactic emphasizes offensive power. Units unleash a devastating charge, sacrificing some defense for a significant increase in attack power.

Units Attack: +2
Units Defense: -1
This tactic seeks to outmaneuver the enemy. Units prioritize flanking the enemy formation, gaining a bonus to attack power while taking a moderate defensive penalty.

This system wouldn't exist without the ingenuity of our dedicated community. A keen-eyed forum member proposed the concept of Battle Tactics, igniting a passionate discussion about potential tactics and their impact on warfare.

The most effective tactic depends on several factors, including the terrain, the composition of your and your enemy's armies, and the overall battlefield situation. A true leader assesses the battlefield and chooses the tactic that best exploits enemy vulnerabilities and leverages your own forces' strengths. Mastering Battle Tactics takes practice and a keen understanding of the battlefield dynamics.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we focus on the vital cornerstones of any great civilization: the civilization upgrades found within the government view. These permanent improvements empower your civilization, providing lasting benefits that set it on a path to dominance.

Every civilization boasts a capital city, the heart that pumps lifeblood through your civilization. By investing gold, you can elevate your capital's level, reaping significant rewards:

Booming Economy: Each level increase generates a higher monthly income, bolstering your financial resources and allowing you to pursue ambitious goals.
Streamlined Administration: Upkeep costs for all your provinces decrease with each level upgrade, freeing up resources for other crucial investments.
The maximum level your capital can reach can be further expanded through various means:

Unlocking Civilization Legacies: Certain legacies offer permanent increases to your capital's potential for growth.
Researching Key Technologies: Breakthroughs in specific technological fields can unlock higher capital levels.
Claiming Civilization Advantages: Wisely chosen advantages can permanently expand the potential of your capital city.

Corruption is a persistent threat, siphoning away potential income from your provinces. Here, the Supreme Court steps in.

Each upgrade level diminishes corruption's grip, allowing you to retain a greater share of your hard-earned income.

The Military Academy plays a crucial role in honing the combat prowess of your troops. Each upgrade level brings the following benefits:

Enhanced Units: All your units gain improved attack and defense values, making them more lethal on the battlefield and ensuring victory against even the most formidable foes.
Expanded Regiments: The limit on the number of regiments you can field increases, allowing you to build a larger and more formidable army, capable of overwhelming any enemy.

Similar to your capital city, the Military Academy's maximum level can be further increased through:

Civilization Legacies: Specific legacies unlock higher potential levels for your Military Academy.
Technological Advancements: Researching certain technologies can expand the maximum level of your Military Academy.
Civilization Advantages: Strategic use of advantages can permanently raise the level cap for your Military Academy.

The Military Academy for Generals offers a more specialized approach to military advancement. Upgrading this building provides the following:

Elite Leadership: All your generals benefit from improved leadership skills, enhancing the overall effectiveness of your armies through superior tactics and strategies.

These special Civilization upgrades provide crucial options for building your civilization. Choose wisely, tailoring your investments to your strategic goals. Invest in your capital to strengthen your economic foundation, combat corruption to bolster your income, or elevate your military academies to forge an unstoppable army. Remember, a powerful and enduring nation is built upon a foundation of strategic foresight and wise resource allocation.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we delve into the very core of your Civilization: its form of government. The chosen system will not only define who holds power, but also shape your Civilization's character and its path to dominance.

Age of History 3 offers a diverse range of government types, each with its own unique set of strengths.

Let's explore some key examples:

This traditional system vests leadership in a single ruler. Benefits include:

Advisor Expertise: You can secure the services of advisors at a 10% discount, allowing you to access their valuable expertise without breaking the bank.
Legacy of Leadership: Monarchs generate a monthly Legacy point bonus, accelerating your progress towards unlocking powerful civilization legacies.
Strong Military Foundation: Monarchy bolsters your Civilization's manpower pool by an additional 2,000, allowing you to build a larger and more formidable army.

This system prioritizes commerce and trade. Its benefits include:

Economic Efficiency: Production output across all your provinces increases by 4%, significantly boosting your income-generating potential.
Frugal Construction: The cost of constructing economic buildings decreases by 5%, allowing you to expand your economic infrastructure more efficiently.
Swift Recruitment: Recruitment times for new units are reduced by 10%, ensuring you can field your forces quickly in times of need.

This system focuses on the development of a central urban hub. Its benefits include:

Efficient Administration: Province maintenance costs are reduced by 10%, freeing up resources for other crucial investments.
Resilient Defenses: All units stationed within your territory gain a bonus of 3 defense points, making them more resistant to enemy attacks.
Urban Expansion: Your provinces gain 4 additional building slots, allowing you to construct a wider range of structures and further develop your cities.

Changing type of government requires an investment of gold and Legacy points.

Certain government types become available through research in the technology tree. As your civilization advances, you'll unlock the potential to create political structures that align with your evolving needs and ambitions.

Greetings, leaders! Today, we delve into the lifeblood of any Civilization: the budget view. Here, you'll wield the tools to manage your income, expenses, and ultimately, the fate of your Civilization.

The budget view provides a clear picture of your civilization's financial health. It displays your income, expenses, and current balance, allowing you to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation.

Taxation is a vital source of income, but striking the right balance is crucial. You can adjust tax levels in three tiers:

Low Taxation: This reduces unrest and fosters research, but generates minimal income.
Default Taxation: The standard setting, balancing income generation.
Severe Taxation: This approach significantly boosts your coffers, but at the cost of higher unrest, decreasing research and Legacy Point generation.
Choose wisely! A happy populace is a productive one, while an overly-taxed society could rebel.

Maintaining a strong military is vital, but comes with a price. You can adjust army maintenance spending in three ways:

Decreased Pay: This lowers costs but negatively impacts troop morale, leadin decreased effectiveness in battle.
Default Spending: This maintains a healthy balance between cost and morale.
Increased Pay: This boosts morale and improves troop performance, but significantly increases your financial burden.
A well-funded army is a powerful tool, but ensure you can afford to maintain its edge.

Research is the key to advancement, and the budget view allows you to control your research spending:

Decreased Funding: This cuts costs but significantly slows research progress.
Default Funding: This maintains a steady pace of research.
Increased Funding: This significantly boosts research speed, but demands a hefty financial commitment.
Invest wisely in research to unlock new technologies!

In times of need, the budget view allows you to take out loans. However, remember – loans are not free money! They come with interest and a limited number can be taken. Use them strategically only during emergencies or to seize critical opportunities.


The budget view also introduces the Prosperity Tier. This metric reflects the average economic health of your provinces, taking into account population and development. A higher Prosperity Tier translates to a stronger national economy, generating more income from your various sources.


Mastering your budget is a vital skill. By carefully balancing income, expenses, and strategic investments, you can ensure your Civilization's prosperity and pave the way for its dominance.

Until then, remember – a wise leader knows that true power lies not on the battlefield alone, but in the ability to manage a thriving and stable economy.