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. A town not only brings taxes, but allows nearby castles to recruit up to 15 % of the towns' population for the training of your armies. In difference to castles and harbours, the growth-bonus is limited to the population of just the town itself.

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			Defence bonus
33*	17*			10
26*	13*			11
27*	14*			12
27*	14*			13
28*	14*			14
29*	15*			15
29*	15*			16
30*	15*			18
31*	16*			18
32*	16*			19
Constructing a town atop another kind of ruin: 47*

*The provided construction time does not take the research areas "Fatigue Duty" and "Industrial Cooperative" into account!
The cancellation of construction orders is possible at any time. 90 % of the paid ressources are returned.

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.