| “ | Produces Royal Artillery siege engines, which do +30% more damage, and unlocks the Artillery ability for Cannons. Contains Siege and Gunpowder Technologies, trains units and researches technologies 50% faster. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
The College of Artillery is a military landmark available to the French and Jeanne d'Arc in Age of Empires IV in the Castle Age. It provides access to Royal variants of gunpowder siege units, which deal 30% more damage than the regular versions, and unlocks the Artillery Shot ability for Cannons. It can also research gunpowder and siege technologies. It trains units and researches technologies 50% faster.
Special ability[]
The College of Artillery unlocks the following special ability for the Cannon:
Artillery Shot (requires College of Artillery, Active): Loads the Cannon for an Artillery Shot. The next shot deals +30% damage, has +5 tiles range, and can target and shoot into fog of war while revealing the location for 3 seconds. However, it can only target buildings. The ability has a 200 second cooldown after the shot is fired (not after the ability is used).
Note: Currently, Artillery Shot deals 680 damage against buildings from a regular Cannon, and 899 damage from a Royal Cannon. If compared with the Cannon's regular attack, this corresponds to increases of 33% and a ~35% increase in damage. These values increase after researching Chemistry.
Trainable units[]
Royal Cannon- Royal Culverin
- Royal Ribauldequin
Available technologies[]
Further statistics[]
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 Hit points
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 Court Architects (+30%)
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| Auras and enhancements | |
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| Other |  Consecrate (reduces costs of units produced by 25%, requires Ordinance Company,  Jeanne d'Arc)
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Trivia[]
- Its real life counterpart is the Fonderie de Douai.
Changelog[]
- Originally, the College of Artillery increased produced units' damage by 20%. With update 6.0.878, it increases produced units' damage by 30%, can research siege and gunpowder technologies, unlocks the Artillery Shot ability for Cannons, and works 50% faster.
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