Archery Range (Chronicles)

This article is about the building in Chronicles. For the building in other games, see Archery Range.

Archery Range
Building information
Introduced in	Chronicles
Type	Military
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Civic Age
Use	Trains and improves archers
Construction
Requires	Barracks
Wood	175
Build time	50 seconds
Statistics
Size	3×3 tiles
Hit points	1,500 1,800 2,100
Garrison	10
Melee armor	1 2 3
Pierce armor	8 9 10
Armor classes	Building Standard building
Line of Sight	6

“	Used to train and upgrade archer units.	”
—Chronicles description

The Archery Range is a Civic Age military building in Chronicles that becomes available once after a Barracks is built. It trains and improves archers.

Tactics and placement

The Archery Range is an essential building if the player has an archer-based civilization, or if the player needs to have an effective counter to enemy archers, as the Skirmisher is trained there. If a player intends to perform a turtling strategy that requires the use of ranged units, they should build several Archery Ranges within fortifications, as they can produce the required basic types of archers. Also, archers garrisoned in towers and Forts allow them to fire more arrows.

Like the Barracks, placing Archery Ranges near an enemy settlement lets troops be created near the opponent, allowing them to attack more effectively. Foot archers also have slow movement speed.

Trainable units and technologies

Clicking on the icon links to the corresponding page.

Blue: Units

Green: Technologies

		Requires Barracks
	➞		➞		➞
			➞		➞
			➞			Requires Flaming Arrows
					➞

Availability grid

The following table shows the availability of the units and technologies for every civilization. Unique units and units that are available to all civilizations are not shown in the table.

	= Available
	= Unavailable

Civilization
Achaemenids
Athenians
Spartans

Further statistics

Technologies
Hit points	Masonry (+10%) Architecture (+10%)
Armor	Masonry (+1/+1, +3 building armor) Architecture (+1/+1, +3 building armor)
Conversion resistance	Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max) Hemlock (die upon getting converted)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+4) Town Patrol (+4)
Creation speed	Conscription (+33%)
Research speed	Conscription (+33%)
Build speed	Treadmill Crane (+20%)

Aura enhancements
Creation speed	Military Town Center (+50%, Achaemenids)
Research speed	Military Town Center (+50%, Achaemenids)

Team bonuses
Conversion resistance	Teutons (+3 min, +1 max cycles)
Creation speed	Britons (+10%)
Research speed	Britons (+10%) Portuguese (+25%)
Other	Berbers (unlock Genitours starting in the Castle Age) Georgians (repairing costs -25%) Slavs (provide +5 population) Vietnamese (unlock Imperial Skirmisher upgrade in the Imperial Age)

Architecture

The Achaemenid Archery Range features the reliefs depicting Immortals from the Palace of Darius in Susa.

Gallery

The Persian Archery Range in the Civic (top) and Classical (bottom) Ages

The Greek Archery Range in the Civic (top) and Classical (bottom) Ages

All generic units trained at the Archery Range