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Game Features

• Found new city
  
  • Players can now found a new city on any plains location in the world.
  • You need a baron, 100k Wood, 100k Stone, 25k Iron, 25k Food and 250 carts or 25 trading ships.
  • To found a new city, select an empty field and choose "Found New City" to open the command screen.
  • The amount of resource fields in a new city now depends on the surrounding landscape. Mountains increase iron, Hills increase stone, Forest increases trees and grassland/others increase lakes.
    For example, if you want to found a new city with high iron production choose a location nearby mountains.
    
• Ships
  
  • <LI style="TEXT-INDENT: -14px; MARGIN-LEFT: 14px">General:
    
    • You can set sail now to visit other continents.
    • To build ships, you need a Shipyard (requirement: Town Hall Level 10)
    • You can use ships to assault, siege or plunder enemey cities as well as to send support to allies.
    • You cannot use ships to spy. They're just too big, sorry…
    • If a ship sinks you may lose troops which are not able to return to their home city.
    • Ships move twice as fast as cavalry (1 field = 5 minutes), but they need 1 hour preparation time.
      
    <LI style="TEXT-INDENT: -14px; MARGIN-LEFT: 14px">Sloop:
    
    • The Sloop is manned with 100 seamen and a defensive ship.
    • It is most useful to defend cities against attacking enemy ships or artillery.
    • It can also be used to plunder unprotected cities.
      
  • Frigate:
    
    • The Frigate is manned with 100 seamen and able to load up to 500 infantry or 250 cavalry units.
    • It can be used offensive or defensive depending on the units.
      Siege engines cannot board.
      
  • War Galleon:
    
    • The War Galleon manned with 400 people is the mightiest ship.
    • It is an offensive ship not only dealing damage to enemy units but also to fortifications and buildings.
      

Balancing

• Units
  
  • The Scout is a bit cheaper and his defense versus artillery was reduced to 10.
  • All infantry units increased their defense versus artillery from 10 to 15.
  • All cavalry units except Scout increased their defense versus artillery from 20 to 40.
  • Catapult attack value decreased from 200 to 150, damage to buildings decreased from 750 to 500.
  • Ballista defense versus artillery decreased from 500 to 400.
  • Moonstones
    
    • The price increased from 40.000 of each resource to 50.000 of each resource.
      
  • Buildings
    
    • The costs for most Level 10 buildings have been reduced, sometimes Level 9 too.
    • The productivity of high level resource buildings has been reduced by 5% to 17%.
    • The build time for resource buildings has been reduced.
    • Higher level resource buildings now cost more wood than stone as lower levels do.
    • Processing buildings now cost even amounts of stone and wood.
    • The efficiency of processing buildings has been changed from 30% to 75% (previously 10% to 100%)
    • The build time for the Storage has been reduced.
    • The recruitment speed bonus by Barracks has been reduced to a maximum of 25% (before: 30%).
    • The build time for Barracks has been reduced.
    • The maximum recruitment speed bonus for all military buildings has been reduced to 150% (before: 200%).
    • The costs for higher level military buildings has been reduced.
    • The gold production of Town Houses has been reduced by about 20%
    • The costs for higher level Marketplaces and Harbours has been reduced.
    • The capacity of Hideouts has been increased to maximum of 15.000 (before: 10.000)
      

Miscellaneous

• Bugfixes
  
  • Various other bugfixes and improvements