Armor class: Stone defense

This article is about the stone defense armor class. For general information about defensive buildings, see Defensive structure.

A Tower, a stone defense armor class building.

The stone defense armor class 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.

Stone defense buildings

The following buildings have the stone defense armor class and take bonus damage from attacks against this class.

• Stone Wall → Fortified Wall
• Gate → Fortified Gate
• Watch Tower → Guard Tower → Keep
• Bombard Tower
• Donjon (Sicilians only)
• Harbor (Malay only)
• Fortified Church (Armenians and Georgians only)

Anti-stone defense units

The following units have an attack bonus against the stone defense armor class. They are sorted descending by the amount of bonus damage they deal.

+50 bonus attack

• Houfnice (Bohemians only)

+40 bonus attack

• Bombard Cannon

+30 bonus attack

• (Elite) War Elephant (Persians only)

+12 bonus attack

• Tarkan - Elite Tarkan (Huns only)

+11 bonus attack

• Castle (additional arrows only)

+10 bonus attack

• Krepost (Bulgarians only, additional arrows only)

+7 bonus attack

• Elite Battle Elephant

+6 bonus attack

• Villager

+5 bonus attack

• Watch Tower - Guard Tower - Keep (additional arrows only)
• Donjon (Sicilians only, additional arrows only)

+4 bonus attack

• Battle Elephant
• Elite Ballista Elephant (Khmer only)

+3 bonus attack

• Ballista Elephant (Khmer only)

Technologies

The following technologies give the following units an attack bonus against the stone defense armor class:

• Sappers
  • +15 bonus attack
    • Villager

Civilization bonuses

• The following Burgundian units get an attack bonus against the stone defense armor class:
  • +10 bonus attack
    • Bombard Cannon