Build your city, from palisade to colonnades

Seventeen buildings

At the heart of the city stands the Town Hall: its level caps that of all the others, and it produces gold. You have two workers, so two constructions at a time.

To house and store: Housing (each soldier takes up a place there) and the Warehouse (beyond what it can hold, production stops). For the army: the Barracks, the Archery Range, the Stables, the Arsenal (siege engines) and the Bastion (your nation's elite troops). For research: the Workshop (production and construction), the Training Grounds (military), the Chancellery (prayer, medicine, trade) and the Academy (heroic).

And more: the Tavern recruits heroes, missionaries and merchants; the Market exchanges one resource for another; the Chamber of Commerce sends your merchants to the cities; the Sanctuary produces civilization; the Provost's Hall garrisons heroes to defend the city. Around it, the ramparts are laid section by section, with their towers and gates.

Four ages, twenty-four levels

Each age opens six more levels, up to level 24 in the Imperial Age, and new buildings: the Archery Range, the Training Grounds, the Provost's Hall and the Sanctuary in the Barbarian Age; the Stables, the Chancellery, the Chamber of Commerce, the Academy and the Arsenal in the Feudal Age; the Bastion in the Imperial Age. You change age from the Town Hall.

Your nation's architecture

Each building is drawn for each of the four nations, and changes its look twice as it grows, at levels 9 and 17: from a wooden palisade to marble colonnades. Twenty-seven buildings of Rome have already been redone in 3D.

The walls are your nation's too, painted for each one, with their towers and gates; China's first palisade is made of bamboo.

Resources to bring in

Five resources: food, wood, stone, metal and gold. A construction is paid for in gold, wood, stone and metal. Farms, sawmills, quarries and mines are built on the plots of your region, around the city.

Your city's loyalty, out of 100, governs part of its production: at 100, everything is produced; at 0, only 70%. A famine makes it drop, and ends up making soldiers desert: keep your granaries full.

Construction time

Constructions take longer and longer as the city grows, and keep going even when you are away. You come back often, for a few minutes, to start the next ones. Speed-ups from daily rewards, tasks and missions shorten a construction; China's constructions go 10% faster.

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