Town Center

Age of Empires
Unlike in future AoE games, the Town Center looks like a fountain rather than a building. Town Center serves as the main deposit site for villagers to drop the resources they have been tasked to collect and carry out. Other functions includes to Train Villagers and to advance into the next Age. This is the only game of the series where the Town Center does not defend itself. Like a House, it also supports 4 population, and the reason is becouse its the first building to be around and to further support the player to train a few more Villagers before making a house. You can't build more Town Centers unless your civilization has entered the Bronze Age and has Granary, Market and Government Center present aswell.

Age of Empires II
The town centers are slightly expensive, but highly versatile.

They can be used as a defensive structure, it can Garrison up to 15 units, Train villagers, Advance into the next Ages and Serves as a main dropsite for your villagers to drop the resources they have collected. It is the only building that to start with have no minimum range.


 * Upgrades available:
 * Dark Age - Loom
 * Feudal Age - Town Watch
 * Feudal Age - Wheelbarrow
 * Castle Age - Town Patrol
 * Castle Age - Hand Cart
 * Castle Age - Hand Cart

Cost: 275 Wood and 100 Stone

HP: 2400

Attack: 5

Range: 6

Age of Mythology
In Age of Mythology, the town center fires arrows at enemies, train villagers and heroes, advance age, and acts as a drop site for collected resources. Unlike in previous titles, the Town Center cannot be build anywhere on the ground but only on an abandoned Settlement, which can be found anywhere around the map.

Age of Empires III
s are a critical civilian building to your civilization.

First available: Discovery Age Cost: 600 Wood Hitpoints: 6500

The town centers is the starting building for your colony and also acts as the default Home City drop-off point. The town centers can train villagers, create Minutemen, and you can advance in age.

The town center is a strong building and it can defend itself from it's top tower and can stock up 10 villagers to protect them and also can hold villagers too. If your Explorer has fallen in battle too close to enemy territory, instead of invading the enemy town you can just pay ransom money and get your Explorer back safely in your colony.

Only the Explorer can build a Town Center and there can only be one before Fortress Age which after that increases to three.

Portuguese get a free Covered Wagon every time they Age up until Industrial Age and together with some Home City shipments can have the maximum increase to Six Town centers.

Spanish in the other hand has a shipment which increases Town Center population so much that Houses are unecessary.