Town
Town
Towns may be founded on plains. A town attracts more population than other fields and promises a higher gold income due to higher tax rates. For each level of a town, population growth is increased by 0.5% in the town itself but also on the 6 adjacent fields.
A town not only brings taxes, but allows nearby castles within a distance of 2 fields to recruit up to 15 % of the town's population for the training of your armies.
Towns have an increased defense against attackers; furthermore, horsemen are hindered in towns similar to mountains and castles. Towns also allow the splitting of armies.
The construction of towns requires a minimum distance to castles, harbours and other towns!
| Construction time on an empty field | Rebuilding a ruin | 
|
Defense bonus | slots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12* | 6* | 
|
0.10 | 0# |
| 9* | 5* | 
|
0.11 | 0# |
| 9* | 5* | 
|
0.12 | 1# |
| 9* | 5* | 
|
0.13 | 1# |
| 10* | 5* | 
|
0.14 | 1# |
| 10* | 5* | 
|
0.15 | 2# |
| 10* | 5* | 
|
0.16 | 2# |
| 11* | 
|
0.17 | 2# | |
| 11* | 
|
0.18 | 3# | |
| 11* | 
|
0.19 | 3# | |
| Constructing a town atop another kind of ruin: 16* | ||||
*The provided construction time does not take the research areas "Fatigue Duty" and "Industrial Cooperative" into account!
#Slotnumber does not take the research area "Municipal Office" into account!
The cancellation of construction orders is possible at any time. 90 % of the paid ressources are returned.
Expansion of a Town by Slots
To better defend a town against sieges and to increase the output of your fields, towns can be expanded using slots. In the building menue, when a town is selected, slots can be filled with expansions when the respective research has been finished. Depending on the level of a town, more or less slots can be filled. Each expansion can only be built once with the exception of ballistas and mangonels.
Minimum distance requirements
- Castle-Castle: 3 fields between building and construction site
- Town-Town: 2 fields between building and construction site
- Hafen-Harbour: 2 fields between building and construction site
- Castle-Town: 1 field between building and construction site
- Castle-Harbour: 1 field between building and construction site
- Town-Harbour: 1 field between building and construction site
Hints by experienced players
Towns should be build within 2 fields distance to a castle; only this allows for the recruitement of the town-population for armies. At the beginning of the Age, however, the building of a city is not advisable because of high material consumption.