Population count is off in Skirmish. I have thirty workers but I only have about 100 or less spaces for my army. Also resource numbers keep changing

Annie2193293 · October 1, 2026, 6:36pm

GAME INFORMATION

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GAME BUILD Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition – Update 19.18309
GAME PLATFORM: Microsoft Store
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

I have been playing skirmish for some time. Since the last update, there have been issues with population count. I have 30 workers, but when I add fighters the population grows exponentially, far beyond their population count, so I have no room left for heavy artillery.

Also the amounts of food etc change during clicks. I might have 1000 food, according to the count, but when I go to use it is only 350 and it flickers between the 2 numbers

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FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

start the game in Skirmish, any country
Build up your base. Which is harder than it was previously resource levels change when you want to build something. ie it says you have resources to build a trading post but when you go to build one, you don’t
Try to build up your army, but despite having only 30 workers, and a few menial fighters, the population has increase to >150 leaving minimal space for heavy artillery

EXPECTED RESULT

I usually can build up my base build a basic army up until level 3, then add artillery and add a factory in level 4 for the big guns. But now the population explodes for no reason. And I am constantly attacked by large numbers of enemies when I have nothing to fight back with, and my defences are over run

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