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All buildings are constructed by Peasants. Refer to the ingame tooltips
and the Building Tree Chart for the costs. Buildings also have alignments,
which is important for the multi-player game. Buildings can be Unaligned (can
be built by all players), Imperial, Pagan, Renaissance, Imperial Renaissance
or Pagan Renaissance. Refer to the Building Tree Chart for more details. Note
that you can always combine Renaissance buildings with Imperial and Pagan
buildings, but you can never have Imperial and Pagan buildings.
Armoury -Unaligned
Once you have constructed an Armoury you will have access to a range of siege
weapons either directly: in the form of the Mangonel and Battering Ram, or
via the Sapper. The Sapper can also build Bombards and Trebuchets. An Armoury
must be built within your city walls (see Auto-Walling).
Requires: Keep (To upgrade your Manor to a Keep you need to build a Sacred
Grove, Windmill or Monastery.)
Builds: Mangonel, Sapper, Bombard (with Bombard upgrade)
Allows: Carrack to be built at the Dock.
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Arcanum - Pagan Renaissance
This is a Pagan centre of magical learning, the ultimate Pagan Renaissance
building. Precludes University, Scriptorium, Archangel and Wicker Man.
Building the Arcanum automatically upgrades your Castle to a Pagan Palace.
Allows: Carrack (at the Dock)
Requires: Temple of the Moon and Observatory
Upgrades: Death Wyrm, Explosives, and Invoke Hecate.
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Bank - Renaissance
Once you have established a thriving economy with Merchants and Shops, the
addition of a Bank makes your population feel safer about the money they
produce. The effect of the Bank is to allow Materials to be converted to Gold
at a much faster rate. Peasants assigned to shop will visit a bank on their
way to deliver to the Manor. Visiting the Bank gives them a Gold bonus, so
always try and build your Bank either near to, or in between, your Shops and
your Manor. A Bank must be built within your city walls (see Auto-Walling).
Requires: Observatory
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Barracks - Unaligned
The first step in developing a military force is to construct a Barracks.
With this you can start Training and produce a force of fighting Units. A
Barracks must be built within your city walls (see Auto-Walling).
Builds: Archer, Imperial Archer, Spearman, Pikeman, Man at Arms, Gunner.
Allows: Training Dummy, Stables, Watchtower.
Offers Upgrade: Research Fort, Research Flaming Arrow.
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Blacksmith - Unaligned
The Blacksmith can upgrade the armour and weapons of your Units. When you
upgrade from a Keep to a Castle, more of these upgrades are offered at the
Blacksmith. If you upgrade to a Renaissance Palace, further upgrades are
offered.
Requires: Keep
Upgrades: Heavy Infantry Pattern Welded Blade, Light Cavalry Steel-tipped
Weapon, Light Infantry Steel-tipped Weapon, Heavy Cavalry Mail Barding, Heavy
Infantry Chainmail, Light Cavalry Mail Barding, Light Infantry Hardened
Leather Armour, Light Cavalry Armour Piercing, Light Infantry Armour
Piercing, Light Cavalry Plate Barding, Light Infantry Ringmail Armour, Light
Infantry Leather Armour, Heavy Infantry Scalemail, Heavy Infantry Plate Armour, Heavy Infantry Damascene
Steel, Heavy Infantry Tempered Steel, Light Infantry Iron-tipped Weapon,
Light Cavalry Quilted Hauberk, Light Cavalry Iron-tipped Weapon, Heavy
Cavalry Plate Barding, Heavy Cavalry Leather Barding.
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Castle
Garrison Capacity: 50
A Castle is an upgraded Keep and is yet more robust than the Keep. It can be
Pagan, Renaissance or Imperial, depending on the path you choose. The Keep is
automatically upgraded to a Castle when you build a Cathedral (Imperial
Castle), Temple of the Moon (Pagan) or Observatory (Renaissance). A Castle
also allows your peasants to construct new Manors elsewhere, effectively
allowing you to found new cities. Castles can be garrisoned.
Allows: A number of additional Cavalry and Infantry combat upgrades at the
Blacksmith.
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Cathedral – Imperial, Imperial
Renaissance
A Cathedral is the Imperial 'special weapon' building. It generates and
inflicts Acts Of God; Priests, Bishops and Inquisitors can pray here to speed
up the generation of Piety, which is used in calling down Acts of God.
Building a Cathedral will irrevocably precludes the Pagan path, automatically
upgrades your Keep to an Imperial Castle and disallows the University.
Requires: Chivalry upgrade at the Monastery.
Alignment: Imperial or Imperial Renaissance.
Upgrades: Surgery, Crusade, Shield of God and Crossbow
Acts of God: Plague, Blindness, Fimbulwinter, Wrath of Heaven and Wormwood,
Vision, Earthquake, Lightning
Allows: Scriptorium (with Observatory) and Ramparts upgrade.
Builds: Bishop, Inquisitor.
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Church -
Imperial, Imperial Renaissance, or Renaissance
A Church increases the efficiency of your Peasants. When Peasants are
delivering Materials to a Village or Manor and there is a Church is nearby,
they will stop at the Church on every seventh trip (Sunday) and pray. This
increases the speed at which they harvest resources for the next six trips.
Building a Church precludes the Pagan Maypole and the Battle Rider.
Builds: Priest
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Dock - Unaligned
Builds: Cog, Carrack, Corsair, Galleass (with Bombard upgrade)
A Dock will repairs ships and can be set up to receive resources from another
Dock, and to deliver resources to the nearest Village or Manor (see Supply
Lines).
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Farm - Unaligned
Farms generate food if a Peasant is assigned to work them. See also Food Consumption,
Unit Support and Population Limit. You will be able to tell if a farm has no
peasant working on it as farms without peasants assigned to them will attract
crows, who will begin to feed on the farm. There are 3 types of farm,
depending on the terrain over which they are built - Fertile, Standard and
Arid. The tool tip will tell you which type they are, as will the farm
graphic. Fertile farms look rich and plentiful, Arid Farms are dry and
patchy. Try and build your farms on fertile terrain. Fertile farms produce
more food than Standard farms, which produce more food than arid farms.
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Fort - Unaligned
The Fort is an upgraded Watchtower. It can take more damage than a
Watchtower, and more troops can be garrisoned there. See Garrisons. Troops
can fire from a Fort. The Garrison Capacity is of a Fort is 10.
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Gatehouse
Commands: Open Portcullis, Close Portcullis.
Your initial Stockade comes with a Gatehouse. There are four types of
Gatehouse: Stockade Gatehouse, Fortified Gatehouse, Gatehouse Battlements
(Renaissance) and Gatehouse Ramparts (Imperial). A Gatehouse can be
garrisoned, like Forts and Towers. The Gatehouse automatically detects any
nearby enemy Spies. You can open and close the Gatehouse portcullis to let
Units through, or to prevent entry if enemy troops are threatening. The
Garrison capacity of a gatehouse is 10 units.
Gatehouses can detect and unmask enemy spies, and Possessed Peasants.
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Guildhall -Unaligned
A place where tradesmen can enter into a Guild to develop their skills.
Requires: Village
Upgrades: Heavy Plough, Horse Harness, Crop Rotation, Fortified Wall.
Allows: Windmill, Blacksmith, Warehouse, Wall upgrades.
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Hall Of Warriors - Pagan
The Pagan Barracks. This is where pagan warriors are trained.
Requires: Temple of the Moon.
Builds: Warrioress of the Dawn, Warrior of the Sun, Huntress of the Dawn,
Huntress of the Sun, and Undead Legion (undead with Invoke Hecate upgrade at
the Arcanum - Pagan Renaissance.)
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Henge - Pagan
The Henge must be built by a High Priestess. It is a summoning circle of
ancient stones, used to bring forth mighty Pagan Beasts from the 'other
side'.
Builds: Succubus, Gibbering Horde, Behemoth, Spider Demon (with Wicker
Man), Death Wyrm (with Arcanum) and the Fomorian (with Temple of the Moon).
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Holy Chapter - Imperial
The Holy Chapter is an upgraded Monastery that allows for the training of
monastic knights like the Holy Warrior.
Builds: Monk, Holy Warrior
Upgrades: Chivalry.
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Holy Fortress - Imperial
You can upgrade your Fort to a Holy Fortress once you have completed the
Shield of God upgrade. A Holy Fortress has the best defence and can house the
largest garrison. Garrison Capacity: 20.
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Keep
Garrison Capacity: 50
A Keep is an upgraded Manor, but it can take much more damage. It can be
Pagan, Renaissance or Imperial alignment, depending on the path you choose.
The Manor is automatically upgraded to a Keep when you build a Monastery
(Imperial Keep), Sacred Grove (Pagan Keep) or Windmill (Renaissance Keep).
Builds: Peasant, Cart.
Allows: Armoury, Fort upgrade at Barracks and various Cavalry and Infantry
combat upgrades at the Blacksmith.
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Manor - Unaligned
Garrison Capacity: 50
Your first Manor in the game is the centre of your city and your Empire. If
it is destroyed you lose the game, so guard it well! (In multi-player you can
change this, if you wish). Your Manor begins with a Stockade wall and, as your
city expands, so does the wall, automatically. As you develop your city, your
Manor will be upgraded to a Keep, a Castle and then a Palace. Each of these
Castles will be different according to your choice of alignment - Pagan,
Imperial or Renaissance. You can only ever have one Manor, until it is
upgraded to a Castle. At this point, your peasants can construct new Manors.
Builds: Peasant, Cart.
Upgrades: Militia, Fortified Wall.
Commands: Conscript Peasants (turns Peasants into Militia), Convert Militia
to Peasants (back to Peasants).
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Maypole -Pagan
The Maypole is a Pagan building for improving the happiness and therefore the
efficiency of your Peasants. If you build it on the route your Peasants
travel to deliver resources to a Village, they will stop at the Maypole and
celebrate, making them faster and more efficient at harvesting Food and
gathering Materials. Building a Maypole precludes the Church.
Allows: Sacred Grove, Barbarian (at the Trading Post).
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Monastery - Imperial
Building a Monastery automatically upgrades your Manor to a Keep.
Builds: Monk
Allows: Armoury, Fort upgrade at the Barracks.
Upgrades: Chivalry, Holy Chapter (upgrades Monastery to Holy Chapter).
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Observatory - Imperial Renaissance, Renaissance or Pagan Renaissance
The Observatory allows your people to research new techniques and
discoveries. Automatically upgrades your Keep to a Castle. Precludes
Wickerman and Archangel Statue. The Observatory also gives you the power of
Telescopic Vision. The Observatory has a charge bar. When it is fully
charged, the Telescopic Vision icon will become active. Select it, and then
rightclick anywhere on the map, and you will be able to see that area for a
second or two.
Requires: Windmill
Upgrades: Research Trebuchet, Telescopic Vision
Allows: Bank and Scriptorium (with Cathedral), or Arcanum (with Temple of the
Moon), or University.
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Palace
Garrison Capacity: 50
A Palace is an upgraded Castle and is the ultimate headquarters. It can be
Pagan, Renaissance or Imperial, depending on the path you choose. The Castle
is automatically upgraded to a Palace when you build the Statue of the
Archangel (Imperial Palace), a Scriptorium (Imperial Renaissance)Wicker Man
(Pagan Palace), Arcanum (Pagan Renaissance) or University (Renaissance
Palace).
The Renaissance Palace allows more Cavalry and Infantry combat upgrades at
the Blacksmith.
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Palings
Palings are stakes set in the ground, and they will slow enemy Units up
who encounter them. Palings can be built by the Sapper
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Sacred Grove - Pagan
The Sacred Grove is a Pagan centre of nature worship. Building a Sacred Grove
automatically upgrades your Manor to a Pagan Keep. The Sacred Grove precludes
the Javelineer, but all existing Javelineers will be automatically upgraded
into Mounted Huntresses (female horse archers).
Requires: Maypole
Upgrades: Festival of Samhain, Festival of Beltane and Blessings of the
Goddess.
Builds: High Priestess
Allows: Temple of the Moon, Battle Rider and Mounted Huntress (at Hall of
Warriors).
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Sawmill - Unaligned Renaissance, Pagan Renaissance, Imperial
Renaissance
A Sawmill is used to boost your Materials output. Build the Sawmill near a
Village to which your Peasants are delivering Wood Materials (not Stone from
stone outcroppings). They will visit the Sawmill on their journey from a tree
to the Village. The Sawmill turns the wood into lumber, in effect increasing
the amount of Materials they are carrying, which then gets delivered to the
Village (or Manor).
Requires: Windmill.
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Scriptorium - Imperial Renaissance
The Scriptorium is a place of research carefully monitored by the Empire to
make sure all new discoveries conform to the doctrine of the Imperial Church.
This is the final building for the Imperial Renaissance path.
Requires: Cathedral and Observatory
Upgrades: Witch Hunt, Greek Fire, and Gunpowder.
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Shops - Unaligned
Shops allow Peasants to trade their Material for Gold. Gold is generated from
Shops by assigning Peasants to Shop and start selling materials from your
Global Stocks. The material is then converted to Gold, the Peasant then takes
the Gold to the Manor/Keep/Castle/Palace. A Peasant will continue to do this
until there is no more Material at the Palace or the Peasant is instructed to
stop. If you build a Bank nearby, the Peasant will stop at the Bank,
increasing his Gold yield, before delivering it to the Manor, Keep, Castle or
Palace. A Merchant will generate more gold than a Peasant if he is assigned
to a shop. To pause this process (ie if your Materials are running low),
select this option at the shop. If you have do not have a peasant or merchant
assigned to a shop, it will stop taking Materials from Global Stocks.
Allows: Tavern
Offers: Pause Shopping, Unpause Shopping.
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Stables - Unaligned
A Stables is where you can recruit your Cavalry Units.
Builds: Javelineer, Squire, Dragoon (with Gunpowder upgrade), Mounted
Huntress (with Temple of the Moon), Battle Rider (with Sacred Grove), War
Rider (with Wicker Man), Knight (with Chivalry upgrade), Imperial Knight
(with Archangel Statue).
Upgrades: Heavy Cavalry Stirrup, Heavy Cavalry Warhorse, Heavy Cavalry
Horseshoe.
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Statue of the Archangel - Imperial
The Statue of the Archangel, Sword of God is the ultimate Imperial building.
If this Statue is built it marks you as the most pious and zealous follower
of the Imperial Church. The followers of the true faith will flock to your
banner, and the most powerful Imperial units will become available to you.
You can use also summon the real Archangel at his Statue. Assign Priests,
Bishops and Inquisitors to pray at the Statue to hasten the summoning.
Building the Archangel precludes the University and automatically upgrades
your Castle to an Imperial Palace.
Upgrades: Summon the Archangel
Requires: Crusade upgrade (from Cathedral)
Allows: Imperial Archer, Imperial Knight, Imperial Pikeman, Inquisitor and
the Wormwood and Lightning Acts of God. (available at Cathedral) Existing
Archers, Knights and Pikeman will be automatically upgraded.
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Tavern-Unaligned
Spies, and Mercenaries most commonly frequent the Taverns, all looking for
work. When not working they spend their money eating and drinking to excess,
as they never know when they may get their next job, or even if they will
live long enough to see another day.
Requires: Shop
Builds: Mercenaries, Spies
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Temple of the Moon - Pagan
The Temple of the Moon takes you further down the Pagan path and precludes
the University. This will attract more Pagan followers, allowing you to build
the Hall of Warriors (like a pagan barracks) where you can recruit pagan
units. Requires: Sacred Grove
Upgrades: Summon Fomorian
Allows: Arcanum (with Observatory), Hall Of Warriors and Wickerman
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Training Dummy
A Training Dummy is a place where a combat Unit can train and earn experience
points. A Sapper or a Peasant can construct a Training Dummy. When built,
select a combat Unit, and right-click on the Dummy, the Unit will train at
the dummy. Note that a unit can only gain a certain amount of experience from
a training dummy, and will need to engage in actual combat to progress
further.
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Trading Post - Unaligned
The Trading Post can be used as a kind of static Scout, because of its high
sight range. Scouts and Barbarians can also be found here, looking for work.
Merchants can also be assigned to trade here, and they will generate gold
which they will then deliver to the nearest Village or Manor.
Builds: Scout, Barbarian.
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University - Renaissance
The University is the ultimate Renaissance building, a centre for learning
and research. The University automatically upgrades a Castle to the
Renaissance Palace. The University disallows the Scriptorium, Arcanum,
Wickerman, Archangel Statue, Cathedral, Temple of the Moon and the Holy
Fortress. This is the final building in the Renaissance path.
Upgrades: Rocketry, Bombard, Advanced Sawmill, Advanced Windmill.
Allows: Ultimate armour and weapon upgrades at the Blacksmith, Gunner Unit.
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Village - Unaligned
A Village is a resource gathering centres. Carts travel between your Villages
and your Manor/Keep/Castle/Palace, picking up resources from your Village, and
delivering them to your Manor, where they are entered into Global Stocks and
become available for use. Build your farms around a Village. Build your
village near resource sources, like stone outcroppings, forests and gold
outcroppings.
Builds: Peasant
Allows: Guildhall, Church or Maypole, Farm, Dock, Barracks, Shop.
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Walls and Towers
 
There are four types of wall: Stockades (wooden), Fortified Wall, Battlements
(Renaissance wall) and Ramparts (Imperial wall). Your initial Manor always
comes with a stockade and as you expand your city the wall foundations will
automatically expand with it but you will need to assign Peasants to complete
these foundations and this will cost Materials. You can also use your
Peasants to build walls outside of your city and you can research Fortified
walls, Battlements and Ramparts. Any existing walls will be upgraded
automatically at no cost to the new wall type.
Any wall section can be upgraded to the appropriate Tower. Simply select a
wall and click on the Tower upgrade icon (this costs Materials). Towers can
be garrisoned in the same way as Forts. Towers also act as resupply centres
for ammunition for missile troops. The garrison capacity for all towers is 5.
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Warehouse - Unaligned
A Warehouse can function as a Manor for the purposes of receiving resources
from Villages, as well as spawning Merchants and Supply Wagons. Resources
delivered to a Warehouse will go straight into global stocks. A Warehouse
must be built within your city walls, so you should try and build it as near
to your Village(s) as you can to cut down Cart delivery times.
Builds: Merchant and Supply Wagon
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Watchtower, Fort and Holy Fortress
These buildings can be built as outposts or defences. They are not much use
on their own, and require garrisons to be effective. Garrisons can fire out
if they are missile troops. With the Crossbow upgrade, all garrisons can fire
out, even peasants! Forts provide considerable defensive benefits. Garrison
Capacities: Watchtower 5, Fort 10, Holy Fortress 20.
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Wicker Man - Pagan
The Wickerman is the ultimate Pagan building. The Wicker Man sends out a call
to your pagan people to 'muster the tribes', and various pagan warriors
become available: the Behemoth and Spider Demon (at Henge); the Warrior of
the Sun, War Rider, and Huntress of the Sun (at the Hall of Warriors).
Existing Huntresses of the Dawn and Battle Riders will automatically be
upgraded. You can also use the Wicker Man to summon Abaddon, the most
powerful Pagan Unit in the game. Peasants can be sacrificed at the Wicker Man
to hasten the summoning. Building the Wicker Man precludes the University,
Observatory and Arcanum and automatically upgrades your Castle to a Pagan
Palace.
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Windmill -Renaissance, Pagan Renaissance, Imperial Renaissance
A Windmill is used to boost your food output. Build the Windmill near a
Village to which your Peasants are delivering food. They will visit the
Windmill on their way from a farm to the Village. The Windmill grinds the
grain into flour, in effect increasing the amount of food they are carrying
and which gets delivered to the Village (or Manor). The Windmill also allows
various upgrades and buildings.
Allows: Observatory, Sawmill
Upgrades: Automatically upgrades a Manor to a Keep.
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