Guide to Run Act 1: Blood - English Version
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Guide to Run Act 1: Blood - English Version
Updated 4 years ago by Lawiet3

Here is the guide to run Act 1: Blood, there's a link down bellow to the downloadable version of the guide.

Age of Empires 3 Act 1: Blood - Easy Any% Route

Hi everyone, i’m Lawiet 3 and i made this guide to show some of the strats i researched for this act, major Shoutouts to Empiresfreak, i watched his videos and took notes and made some adaptations to run this first act, note that this act has very short missions, you spend most of the time on loading screens, try to make the most of it, if you have any questions, i’m at the Real time Strategy discord and my twitter is @Lawiet3.

This game runs on RTA ( Real Time Attack) which means it measures the real time that has passed from start to finish, rather than in-game time. The clock starts once you hit Play and ends in the You are Victorious screen at the end of the last misison.

Breakout

This mission sums up what is to run this first act, a complete disregard for Morgan’s opinions, he will say that you cant win with pikes and shots, and that’s exactly what you are going to do.

  • Start by slecting all your troops and sending them to the bottom of the map, let them stay there and don’t worry about your fort, it will hold nicely.
  • Go to the market, spend all your wood on gold and research the “dog project”, it will make your peons gather hunted animals faster. Select your peons and send all of them to gather hunted animals.
  • Go back to your base and start making Veteran Rodelero, you will need aproximately 45 rodeleros to fight the bombards, after they are produced, send them to the same place your original troops.
  • After you produced the rodeleros, send your peons to the top of the hill where is the fireplace, leave them there and wait for Morgan to ask for the help you will never need.
  • The first bombard will appear 04:33 in-game time, you will have to ambush it with your rodeleros as seen on my run, unfortunately i haven’t been able to find the map images to guide more acuratelly. Leave some space to the bombard to spawn, if the troops are on top of the spawn point, it will spawn away from your troops.
  • After the first bombard appears and is completely destroyed, Morgan will ask for help and your peons will start to gather the wood, send half your rodeleros north to fight a Bombard, let the other half in the position the first bombard appeared and the initial troops south, so that they can destroy all the bombards at the same time, when the 3 Bombards are destroyed, the mission is Complete.

Into the Caves

This is another disregard of Morgan’s opinions.

  • Grab the 3 swiss pikeman, Morgan and Alain and send them to the caves, do the same thing with the Bombard. Produce 20 pikeman and the pikeman upgrade, send 10 pikeman to morgan and 10 to the other Munition Depot.
  • Use your crossbowman to defend your base, after that send them to the caves as well.
  • In the way to the caverns, make Morgan free the Prisioners and add them to your crew.
  • When the munition depot appear, send the 10 pikeman to them.
  • While reaching the cave, here’s the order of munition destruction. 1: The bombard will destroy the depot closest to the entry. 2: The pikeman and crossbowman will destroy the one after. 3: Morgan and the boys will destroy the last depot that hides the secret entrance Mission Complete

PIRATES!!!

Another example of Morgan’s crew not caring abou anything he says. The ship is badly damaged? We don’t care.

  • Put the troops back on the ship and sail to the island south of the initial island. Drop Morgan and 1 Hussar with him.
  • Send the ship to the island where is the second map piece you need, while you are doing it, send the hussar to bait some of the pirates and use Morgan’s Skill to kill the treasure guardian and get the first Map Piece.
  • In the other island, drop the Town Cart and make your town center there, then send your ship to get morgan back, send the ship to the tower of Lizzie’s base.
  • When your town center is complete, get your peons and hide them in it, then, kill the Treasure Guardian with your town center. Send all your peons to grab the second Map piece once the guardian is dead.
  • Drop Morgan and the crew in the tower, send them to get the last piece of the map and use Morgan’s Skill again to kill the last guardian and send Morgan to grab the last map piece. Be aware that Morgan can get killed in the process, try to bait Lizzie’s Troops into attacking your crew to protect Morgan.

The Ottoman Fort

This mission is not very hard but you can lose some seconds in it.

  • Put your town center next to the beach very fast, send your ship to destroy the enemy docks and send your troops and the peons southwest the map to the enemy base gate.
  • When the town is complete, send your villagers to make 1 market and 1 house, send the 300 food from the capital city to your town. After the buildings are complete, send your peons to gather wood.
  • In the market, use your gold to buy wood and use some food too.
  • Before reaching the enemy gates, make Morgan grab a wood treasure nearby, this will help to make some barracks.
  • Use your 2 peons to build 2 barracks in front of the enemy gates and keep sending the 300 food from the capital, after the barracks are complete simply start making pikeman to destroy the enemy base.
  • After the gate is destroyed, use morgan to tank the damage from the buildings and use the pikeman to destroy the enemy fort and town center, when those are destroyed, the mission is complete.

Between misisons you will need to use your 2 capital points to unlock 2 falconets and 2 mortars for the next mission.

Temples of the Aztec This mission sums up the disregard Morgan moto that this run shows.

  • Send your troops to the enemy gate right away, send Morgan to free the Aztecs, one skill blow can kill all the troops that arrive, if one survive just finish him of.
  • Send the Aztecs to the enemy gate and build the trading post on the Aztec City.
  • After the trading post is complete, a wagon will appear, quickly use the wagon and send your troops to the enemy gate, send the peons there as well. Send 2 mortars from the capital.
  • When the town is complete you will have to build next to the enemy gate in this order 1: Build a tower 2: Build a Market 3: Build a Artillery foundry 4: Build 4 houses
  • When the tower is complete, quickly make it receive all capital supplies, it is the blue button in the tower, the mortars will go there now.
  • Use the market to sell food into gold and some gold into wood, you need at least 500 wood. Use these resources to make 5 more mortars.
  • Use the mortars to destroy the enemy tower and advance into the city.
  • Use the hussars to destroy the up north tower, the 2 mortars to destroy the tower close to the town center, use your troops to destroy the town center and the stable.
  • Send 2 falconets from the capital and the 5 mortars to destroy the towers northewest the city. The mission is over when you destroy every structure.

A Pirates Help This shows how you can become famous in less than 3 minutes.

  • Send Morgan and 2 hussars to the trading post south, defend the attack with the rest of the troops.
  • Build the training post and dont engage with the hussars, go southeast the island to find the herd and the beaches. At this time the attack was stopped, take your troops and put on the beach east town, with the peons, build a stable and also take them east.
  • Send the herd back town by first leading them to the beach east then to the farm.
  • With Morgan and the Hussars kill the guardians of the canoe, don’t let them go up since they will reunite with some natives and it will kill some seconds, after the canoe is in your control, delete it, it will respawn in the beach where you led you initial troops, after that, send Morgan back to lizzie.
  • Lizzie will ask you to deliver a netive boy back to the island, but the boy on the canoe with your troops and peons, take it to the other island.
  • With your troops and peons, go south the island and find the statue, claim it with your peons and bait the enemies with your troops, this statue and the herd should give you enough exp to end the mission.

Spanish Treasure Fleet This is a run killer for sure, mind your steps and try not to engage.

  • Put all your units on land, put the wagon, the falconet and the mortar in the bigger ship, take the rest of the units near the first Ship. Send the bigger ship northwest the map were the enemy base is.
  • With your troops destroy the first tower, try to make Morgan tank the damage, with your smaller ships, destroy the prision fence where the Aztecs are.
  • Send the aztecs north to destroy another tower, see the video for map info since it’s crutial to destroy the exact towers shown.
  • After the first tower is destroyed, take Morgan’s troops to the tower up north, the aztec warriors probably already seen it so you don’t have to guess, destroy it with morgan’s troops.
  • Back to the bigger ship, put the falconet on the island west the enemy base and destroy the tower within that island, put the mortar on the enemy base, destroy the tower nearest to the river with the mortar and your ship, take your distance, if you are too close, Delgado’s army will engage with you and you will be destroyed. After the tower is destroy, destroy the last tower up north, after it is destroyed, the mission is complete and you are probably good to finish the run.

The fountain of Youth? This mission is actually really easy and it’s basically making mortars.

  • Send your fire ships to destroy the fountain, use the Hussars to take control of the Fixed Cannon.
  • The rest of your troops are just for show, you can delete them and keep only the hussars.
  • When you take control of the fixed cannon, destroy the tower near the Fountain of Youth and then aim at the fountain. The wagon will arrive with more troops and some peons, put the peons on boat quickly and make a town center really quick, take your peons to the beach close to the Cannon, build and Artillery foundy there.
  • With the peons that come with the town center, send them to the beach, build an Artillery foundry, a market and houses, put them to mine gold.
  • Use all your food to buy gold and use gold to buy some wood, make mortars, the more the better.
  • Take your mortars and put them into the island near the fountain of youth, they will destryo the fountain, keep bringing mortars to speed up the process.
  • Time will come up once the You are Victorious screen appears.

I hope this guide help some of you to start running this game. Hook me up on twitter or discord, or send me a message here on the speedrun.com website. See ya.

Link to the guide online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gf11vAuyK3Q4l1z_H-Lr9aBbVbVBe2NztbrXoswi7Y0/edit

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