Chinese

* Default
* Flag Pack

## Music theme

> "*Trains Banner Armies made of two types of military units. Villages replace Houses, bring Villagers on aging-up, the training of defensive units and receiving Shipments. Best at: Defending and Booming.*"
> ― In-game description.
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## Overview

The **Chinese** are one of the three Asian civilizations originally added to *Age of Empires III* with *The Asian Dynasties* expansion, and are based on the Great Qing Empire (大清帝國). In the base game the Chinese are modeled on the reign of Kangxi (1661-1722px), while in *Wars of Liberty* they are modernized to the late Qing dynasty period and their leader is Empress Dowager Cixi, who reigned from 1861 to 1908.

Now it rests upon the player who will take rein on their part of the battle for the Chinese civilization. Will the player bring the Great Qing to glory again or will the player cause the Great Qing to succumb foreign powers? Its a battle for the civilization's liberty.

## Features

* The Chinese train units through Banner Armies, mixed batches of units that counter a specific type of foe, for a fairly cheaper price
* Can increase their population cap by 10 with every age-up up to 240
* Aging-up will make all Villages spawn a Villager
* Herdables fatten 25% faster at Villages with each Age-up

### Unique Units

 Chu Ko Nu: Archaic Chinese crossbow that fires at an extremely fast rate. Good against infantry.

 Boxer: Chinese peasant armed with various weapons. Good against cavalry.

 Tigerman: Sword and buckler infantry. Good against cavalry.

 Xiangu: Female soldier armed with a matchlock musket. Good against infantry.

 Yung: Cheap and weak ranged infantry. Can be used to prevent early enemy raids.

 Banner Cavalry: Short-ranged, musket-armed cavalryman with a powerful attack. Good against cavalry and artillery.

 Manchu: Horse archer from northeastern China. Good against cavalry.

 Meteor Hammer: Heavy cavalry that does hand damage from range. Good against archers, skirmishers, and artillery.

 Nien Rider: Fast Chinese cavalry armed with a bamboo spear. Good against infantry and buildings.

 Flamethrower: Chinese siege weapon that shoots fire at a short range. Better against infantry than buildings.

 Hand Mortar: Weak light artillery. En masse, good against other artillery and buildings.

 Long Dragon: Heavy artillery which gets more range with Age-ups and is good against infantry or buildings.

 Fire Junk: Rams anything on the water and explodes.

 Fuchuan: A heavy warship that can train units.

 War Junk: Good at exploring, fishing or transport.

 Shaolin Master: Religious leader who trains Disciples, stuns Guardians, and has a chance to inflict a Critical Strike in combat. Explores, fights, and builds Town Centers and Trading Posts.

 Disciple: Disciple to the Chinese Monk. Good against archers, skirmishers, and artillery.

### Unique Buildings

 Village: Building that provides population, villagers can garrison inside, herdables can gather here and can muster Yungs.

 War Academy: Chinese combination of Barracks and Stable. Trains infantry and cavalry in mixed groups. Also, upgrades infantry and cavalry.

#### Wonders

 Confucian Academy: Generates Long Dragon artillery automatically.

 Porcelain Tower: Generates resources automatically. Configure it to produce different things.

 Summer Palace: Generates Banner Armies automatically. Configure it to produce different things.

 Temple of Heaven: Casts the Transcendence ability to heal your units.

 White Pagoda: Increases attack and hit points of Shaolin Master and Disciple.

### Consulate

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**Bonus**: +10% hitpoints for land units

### Armies

**Bonus**: Banner armies cost -30 resources

### Armies

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

## In-game Dialogue

All Chinese units (including native warriors and mercenaries except the Manchu mercenary horse archer, who speaks the unrelated Manchu language) speak Mandarin, but some of them have regional or ethnic influences.

### General

* 準備就緒 [*Zhǔnbèi jiùxù.*] ("Ready")
* 準備好了 [*Zhǔnbèi hǎole.*] ("Ready")
* 什么 [*Shénme?*] ("What [is it]?")
* 怎麼了 [*Zénmele?*] ("What [is happening]?")
* 請下命令 [*Qǐng xià mìnglìng.*] ("Please command")
* 是的 [*Shì de.*] ("Yes")
* 遵命 [*Zūnmìng.*] ("Affirmative")
* 好的 [*Hǎo de.*] ("OK")
* 出發 [*Chūfā.*] ("Embarking")
* 攻擊! [*Gōngjí!*] ("Attack!")
* 開戰 [*Kāizhàn!*] ("To battle!")

### Monk

* 我的傷勢沉重，看來輪迴離我不遠了。 [*Wǒ de shāngshì chénzhòng, kàn lái lúnhuí lí wǒ bù yuǎnle.*] ("The state of my injuries is grave, it looks like reincarnation [Samsara] is not far from me.")
* 我已經復原，可以繼續教化人民。 [*Wǒ yǐjīng fùyuán, kěyǐ jìxù jiàohuà rénmín.*] ("I have recovered, and can continue to enlighten the people.")

### Gatherer

* 粮食工 [*Liángshí gōng.*] ("Food collector")
* 伐木工 [*Fámù gōng.*] ("Lumberjack")
* 農夫 [*Nóngfū.*] ("Farmer")
* 建築工 [*Jiànzhú gōng.*] ("Builder")
* 獵人 [*Lièrén.*] ("Hunter")

## Trivia

* Fireworks appear over the Chinese Town Center everytime they hit a new age

## History

In *Wars of Liberty*, 19th Century China, the Qing Empire, is moving toward its watershed moment since the reign of Kangxi. Since then, the Chinese population has grown quite significantly, in correlation with better civil bureaucracy. Although the current leader Cixi proves to be a powerful figure, her government's military is deemed relatively incompetent. Many attempts to modernize the Qing Army proves to be futile. As a result, the Qing Army is based on Quantity over Quality. So, with the difficulty of directing a huge, relatively backwards, military, Qing has exposed itself to foreign interference and foreign invasion. In the examples of the Opium wars and the Boxer's rebellion.

## Changelog

* 1.0.13c

-They got new voicesets actually spoken by chinese people!
-Your villagers now gather all resources 10% slower.
-New Year: Aging-up will make all your Villages spawn a Villager.
-A new card has been added: Year of the Rat, that gives you 1/2/3/3 extra villagers on aging-up.
-They no longer have access to the Refugee card lines.
-Hire Filipino Manillamen now correctly displays the 12 units it brings.
* 1.0.13d

-Year of the Rat card no longer has a full stop on its name
## Portals

* Civilizations
* Minor Allies
* Religions