University

Overview

Researches advanced military, defensive, and engineering improvements.

Function and access

Researches advanced military, defensive, and engineering improvements 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: Castle Age
• Cost: 200 Wood
• Construction time: 60 seconds

Research available here

These technology entries are associated with this structure. Their Age, cost, and effect determine whether the building is being used for a combat upgrade, an economic improvement, or progression to a later roster option.

• Ballistics
• Chemistry
• Masonry
• Treadmill Crane
• Siege Engineers
• Architecture
• Guard Tower
• Heated Shot
• Murder Holes
• Fortified Wall
• Arrowslits
• Careening
• Dry Dock
• Clinker Construction
• Carvel Hull
• Siphons
• Incendiaries
• Bombard Tower (technology)

Practical role and placement

The University offers later defensive, siege, and combat research. Its upgrades often improve a whole class of structures or military units, so use the technology entries to compare exact targets, prerequisites, and costs before queuing several at once.

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: 2100
• Melee armor by Age: Castle Age: 2 · Imperial Age: 3
• Pierce armor by Age: Castle Age: 9 · Imperial Age: 10
• Line of sight: 6