People called "Minute Men" were farmers or villagers but they are used for battle also, Minute Men can be imidiatly converted into soldiers for war, then convert back to a regular farmer or villager. To train them, all you need is a town center, but it this game, TCs are very expensive and are very usefull. Minute men are not too powerful but are extremly fast to raid. To make them faster to raid, you can pay the minute men extra to have a horse, a horse can also increase the minute mens gathering rate. Here is a picture of "Minute men: The Patriot army is very weak in navel combat, thats why there are no maps like "islands" so it wont be unfair. There are lots of fishing boats and they are cheap to. The Patriot Frigates are not very strong, and cost lots of gold to make, which is hard for Patriots to mine for. In order for the Americans/Patriots to get gold, is to mine for it, but a very weak gathering resorce. Wood can be cut down quikly and fast. Food can be farmed or fished, but the Americans have a hard time to do so. Slaves are the best farmers and mine gold very well. Slaves can be trained in a slave trade center building, but the slaves are extremly expensive to train and cost gold, slaves are used in all cultures, and you can convert them into soldiers but they dont last long. To make it fair, American armies can grason larger amounts in spacific trees than the british can. But American Guns are very weak for militias or Minute men, so that makes the British more powerful. The Americans do not have caravans or whatever because they dont tax, but they did do was to gather as much gold or whatever resorce the colonist can donate, which makes caravans weak to gather. The Patriots also built walls, many buildings that were not so strong, and also siege weapons known as cannons, and they kick ass: The English army have some charicteristics of the American army. The british army can train powerful redcoats in mass, each redcoat is stronger than a minute men, but they also have to pay the loyalist a large amount of money, to farm and gather many resorses. The English have to most advantage over sea because of the fact that they live on an island. There ships made in mass and are powerful, but it takes time to train. The problem with the English is that they are slow and attract more animals to fight at them because animals hate red! They can grason into trees but not much, but there gun fire is powerful and can be reloaded realy quick! The red coats are realy the main unit to choose because they are not too expensive or not to cheap. The English are heavy taxers and get much of there gold from there tax caravan. They also are heavy beef eaters, so they get lots of food by imports that they must depend on, but the building must be built near water. British buildings are very strong and are used for less things, so you need to build more buildings to make different units. The French are extremly powerful and almost go head on with England. The French army have many units with only swords, and some have guns. French units can also train mass units like England can. They have a firce attack with swordsmen and can take down English soldiers pretty easily with swords men. French heros or Generals can be trained like England and the rest of the cultures. Buildings are very strong and they use separate villagers to build them. The units are pretty fast because of there training with the sword. The Navel army is also strong but slow as hel! The ships are massive and expensive, the french also have a greater lose rate, which makes it hard for the player on ESO to run away from his or her base and start a whole new one, the french can only survive without loosing at a certian ammount of points on f4. There is not much about the french that I learned about, so this as all I can give you I am going to explain the campaign and more info on what I think should be the next age game. So what do you think, there will be more cultures but I have no time to explain them all!!! Now, instead of threads like "Set is over powered!" there will be threads like, "ES IS BEING RACIST BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE OVER POWERED!!"{D The Campaign makes you play all of the cultures. The wars will probably be in it: [This message has been edited by Acamas (edited 11-09-2003 @ 09:44 PM).]