HOW TO ADD MORE CARDS IN DECK

welcome again for this cool trick in age of empires 3.
Everyone knows that there are atmost 20 cards in the deck, but after doing this trick you can add upto 44 cards in your home city shipment deck.

There are 4 sections in the deck corresponding to 4 ages[I ,II, III, IV].
There can be atmost 11 cards in each sections  so you can add upto 44 cards total.

JUST FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS AND YOU GO...

BEFORE THIS UNLOCK ALL THE CARDS IN YOUR DECK

1. open build a deck in single player or multiplayer.
2.In the left side you see a section named "available decks". there is only one deck named "my deck".

3.Add 20 cards in this deck.
4. In the left section click on create and create a deck named "deck1". add some cards that are not in my deck.

5. Now you have two decks named  my deck and deck 1.   
                     >>  Note that there is no same card in both decks and in eack section I,II,III OR IV , the  sum of cards is not exceeding 11.

6. close the game and Go to  “My documents/My games/Age of Empires3/savegame” folder 

      7     Find for “sp_name of homecity_homecity” like sp_london_homecity.

      8.    Open this file in text editor like notepad or notepad+.

      9. search for <name>my deck</name> & <name>deck1</name>

           

 

           

  10. Now copy all the cards from deck1 to my deck  or mydeck to deck 1  b/w <cards>......</cards>
  11. Check that there are no two same cards in mydeck or deck 1.  Save the file .
  12. Run the game.

You will see that you have more than 20 cards in your deck..:)[here 39,but you can add upto 44, 11 in each]

   

Here is an alternate method  for this trick.in the homecity file in save game folder.
 - search for  <activetechs>
  

-here you see all the active cards  in the deck. just copy any of these <tech dbid=.....</tech> to my deck  and change <tech to <card and </tech> to </card>.

- YOU CAN ADD UP TO 44 CARDS IN DECK AND NOT MORE THAN 11 CARDS IN EACH AGE SO  VERIFY THE CARD NAME BEFORE YOU COPY...... HAVE FUN..:)