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A Market, a "generic" armor class building.
The building armor class, sometimes referred to as Class 11 armor[1], is an armor class in Age of Empires II. All units that have an attack bonus against this class deal bonus damage against buildings with this armor class.
This armor class primarily relates to enabling attack bonuses from naval and siege damage. This building armor class is not to be confused with the standard building armor class, which also contains all buildings (bar the Wonder), but takes bonus damage from different units and is affected by other technologies and bonuses. The purpose of having two different armor classes for buildings is to keep Masonry, Architecture, and the base building armor Castles and Walls have from cancelling the attack bonuses infantry units hold against buildings.
Buildings[]
The following buildings have the buildings armor class and take bonus damage from attacks against this class. The number in brackets indicates the amount of armor. If there is no number, the amount is 0.
House
Town Center- Mill
- Farm
- Lumber Camp
- Mining Camp
- Market
- Blacksmith
- University
- Monastery
- Dock
- Barracks
- Archery Range
- Stable
- Siege Workshop
- Palisade Wall
- Palisade Gate
- Stone Wall (16)
- Fortified Wall (24)
- Gate (20)
- Outpost
- Watch Tower
- Guard Tower
- Keep
- Bombard Tower
- Castle (8)
- Donjon (Sicilians only)
- Krepost (8) (Bulgarians only)
- Feitoria (Portuguese only)
- Harbor (Malay only)
- Wonder
Anti-building units[]
The following units have an attack bonus against the building armor class. They are sorted descending by the amount of bonus damage they deal.
+500 bonus attack
+280 bonus attack
+275 bonus attack
+250 bonus attack
+220 bonus attack
+200 bonus attack
+180 bonus attack
+150 bonus attack
+125 bonus attack
+100 bonus attack
- Flaming Camel (Tatars only)
+60 bonus attack
+45 bonus attack
+35 bonus attack
+10 bonus attack
- Elite War Elephant (Persians only)
- Elite Tarkan (Huns only)
+9 bonus attack
- Elite Caravel (Portuguese only)
+8 bonus attack
- Tarkan (Huns only)
- Galleon
- Elite Longboat (Vikings only)
- Caravel (Portuguese only)
+7 bonus attack
- War Elephant (Persians only)
- War Galley
- Longboat (Vikings only)
- Elite Battle Elephant
+6 bonus attack
+4 bonus attack
+3 bonus attack
+2 bonus attack
- Scorpion
- Elite Conquistador (Spanish only)
- Ballista Elephant (Khmer only)
- Fire Ship
+1 bonus attack
Technologies[]
The following technologies give the following units an attack bonus against the building armor class:
- Siege Engineers
- +200 bonus attack
- +50 bonus attack
- +40 bonus attack
- +30 bonus attack
- +25 bonus attack
- +12 bonus attack
- +9 bonus attack
- +7 bonus attack
- +1 bonus attack
The following technologies give all buildings additional armor against bonus damage:
- Masonry
- +3 bonus armor
- Architecture
- +3 bonus armor
Civilization bonuses[]
- The following Burgundian units get an attack bonus against the building armor class:
- +69 bonus attack
- +50 bonus attack
- ↑ This refers to its value in the game files. See Masonry, Architecture, and Building Armor in AoE2 Spirit of the Law 2019.
