GUIDE · COMBAT MECHANICS
Garrison
Eligible units can shelter inside structures or transports, gaining protection and sometimes enabling the building to fire.
Overview
Eligible units can shelter inside structures or transports, gaining protection and sometimes enabling the building to fire.
How this system affects decisions
This rule affects combat mechanics. Read the entry’s stated mechanics together with its requirements and related unit or technology pages; its practical value depends on which parts of that system are active in the current match.
How to use this reference
Eligible units can shelter inside structures or transports, gaining protection and sometimes enabling the building to fire. This mechanic links settlement layout to defense. Keep access routes open for your own units, and consider how the structure’s footprint or interaction changes the time an opponent needs to reach workers.
- Focus
- Combat mechanics
- Signature / category
- How it works
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Combat mechanics
- Classification
- Game systems