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Fort

The Fort is Chronicles’ main fortress and unique-unit building. Available from the Classical Age, it trains and upgrades unique units, constructs Palintonons, and researches technologies.

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Overview

The Fort is Chronicles’ main fortress and unique-unit building. Available from the Classical Age, it trains and upgrades unique units, constructs Palintonons, and researches technologies.

How this system affects decisions

Treat research as a sequence of choices: check its building, Age, prerequisite, cost, and the units or economy affected. An upgrade is most valuable when it arrives before the army needs it and improves enough of the units already in production; researching every available technology is rarely the best use of a limited stockpile.

How to use this reference

The Fort is Chronicles’ main fortress and unique-unit building. Available from the Classical Age, it trains and upgrades unique units, constructs Palintonons, and researches technologies. Research availability is part of the civilization’s tech tree: verify its required building and Age, then compare its cost with the units or upgrades the same resources could otherwise fund.

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