A new patch for "Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties" has been released, bringing the second expansion pack in the series to version 1.01a.

"Patch 1.01a for Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is now available through the in-game auto updater or from our game updates page. Click "Help and Tools" then click "Update Game" to get the latest version. The patch contains a fix for the French cheap church card exploit.

If you have any mods for Age of Empires III installed, it is recommended that you uninstall them before installing new patches."

The 15.4MB patch can be downloaded from AtomicGamer, FileFront, FileShack, Gamer's Hell, Strategy Informer, or Worthplaying.

Changelist:

BALANCE CHANGES

• General Changes

Card – Team Cheap Church

• Effect remains the same, but implementation in data is to provide a relative decrease in wood cost instead of assigning an older number of wood cost.

Card – Mosque Construction

• Effect remains the same of reducing cost of Mosque techs by 33%, but cost results have been updated per TAD101 tech cost changes.