BUILDING · STRUCTURE
Bastion
The Bastion is the final tower form in the Chronicles Watch Tower line. It is researched at the Academy in the Imperial Age and is available to the Achaemenids, Athenians, Puru, and Thracians.
Overview
The Bastion is the final tower form in the Chronicles Watch Tower line. It is researched at the Academy in the Imperial Age and is available to the Achaemenids, Athenians, Puru, and Thracians.
Function and access
The Bastion is the final tower form in the Chronicles Watch Tower line. It is researched at the Academy in the Imperial Age and is available to the Achaemenids, Athenians, Puru, and Thracians This determines what the structure contributes to the settlement: economic buildings support resource flow, production buildings add access to an army line, and defensive buildings protect space or routes.
- Available: Chronicles
- Cost: not separately recorded
- Construction time: not separately recorded
Durability and battlefield role
The structural values describe what this building can protect, garrison, or attack. Use them to decide whether it is a safe production point, a defensive anchor, or a structure that needs support; scenario and campaign buildings may have rules that differ from standard matches.
- Hit points: 2,250
- Melee armor: 3
- Pierce armor: 9
- Attack: 8
- Attack bonus vs. Ships: 10
- Range: 8
- Minimum range: 1
- Garrison capacity: 5
- Line of sight: 10
Chronicles tower upgrade
Upgrade a Watch Tower to a Guard Tower in the Classical Age, then research Bastion at the Academy in the Imperial Age. The Bastion upgrade costs 500 Food and 350 Wood and takes 75 seconds. Macedonians and Spartans can reach Guard Tower but do not have access to Bastion.
Function and availability
The Bastion is the final tower form in the Chronicles Watch Tower line. It is researched at the Academy in the Imperial Age and is available to the Achaemenids, Athenians, Puru, and Thracians. Garrison capacity: 5; Listed range: 8; Line of sight: 10. Its defensive value depends on the approach it covers and the time it buys for nearby units to respond. Chronicles uses its own ancient-era roster and building progression. The entry should be read within that campaign ruleset, not as a standard medieval building choice.
Building statistics
- Upgrade age
- Imperial Age
- Researched at
- Academy
- Upgrade time
- 75 seconds
- Hit points
- 2,250
- Attack bonus vs. Ships
- 10
- Range
- 8
- Garrison capacity
- 5
Building values can vary by edition or scenario.
- Also known as
- Bastion (Chronicles)
- Focus
- Defense · tower upgrade · Chronicles
- Signature / category
- Construction & function
- Release / context
- Chronicles
- Region
- Structure
- Classification
- Chronicles