| “ | Acts as a Keep with increased health and powerful incendiary arrows. All weapons have 15 tiles of range. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The Berkshire Palace is a defensive landmark available to the English in Age of Empires IV in the Castle Age. It acts as an improved Keep, with much greater range and a stronger incendiary arrow attack. All projectiles fired from the Berkshire Palace, including garrison arrows and emplacements have 14.5 range, except for the Cannon Emplacement, which only has 14.25 range.
Special ability[]
Network of Castles (Passive): Attack speed of units in a 12.5 tile radius is increased by +20% when enemy units are nearby. This can be upgraded to +40% after researching Network of Citadels
Trainable units[]
Available technologies[]
Further statistics[]
| Hit points |  Court Architects (+30%)
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| Attack |  Steeled Arrow (+1) Balanced Projectiles (+1) Platecutter Point (+1)
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| Additional projectiles |  Boiling Oil Springald Emplacement Cannon Emplacement
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| Creation speed |  Military Academy (+33%)
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| Ability |  Network of Citadels (Network of Castles boost increased to 40%)
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Changelog[]
- Originally, the Berkshire Palace had 5,000 hit points, granted 50% range bonus to projectiles, and doubled the amount of base arrows fired. With update 6.0.878, it has 6,500 hit points, fires incendiary arrows, has a flat 15 tile range for all projectiles, and projectiles have +2 base attack compared to equivalent Keep projectiles. With patch 10.1.48, the range was reduced to 14.5.
Trivia[]
- There is no Berkshire Palace in reality and the in-game structure is actually based on the York Castle. However, it is anachronistically modeled after the 17th century reconstruction.
Gallery[]
The Berkshire Palace
Promotional photo from game website
The Keep of York Castle in reality
Concept art for the Berkshire Palace
