| “ | Produce Longbowmen at +100% speed from the Landmark. Contains Longbowmen upgrades. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description before Season Four | ||
| “ | Acts as an Archery Range with all units and technologies. Works 100% faster. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description since Season Four | ||
The Council Hall is a military landmark available to the English in Age of Empires IV in the Dark Age. It acts as an Archery Range with all units and technologies for the English. It also works 100% faster.
Trainable units[]
Strategy[]
The landmark replaces two Archery Ranges, which saves 300 wood in upfront cost and approximately 40 wood worth of construction time. This leads to it being worth about 340 wood.
The landmark is especially useful in maintaining momentum, as it means the production of Longbowmen can happen faster.
The landmark synergizes well with the Network of Castles civilization bonus.[1] This is because it saves a lot of wood, and building Outposts for the bonus requires a lot of wood in the early game.
Notably, Longbowmen cost almost as much as Outposts, meaning the Network of Castles bonus pays for itself even at relatively low numbers, with only 10 Longbowmen resulting in an Outpost having an approximately equal damage output increase value as adding in more Longbowmen including construction time.
Garrisoning Longbowmen is a way to avoid taking extra bonus damage from their counters, so the Longbowmen heavy play this landmark encourages incentivizes players to build Outposts and get Siege Engineering earlier than they otherwise would.
Available technologies[]
Upgrades[]
| Hit points |  Court Architects (+30%)
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| Creation speed |  Military Academy (+33%)
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Trivia[]
- Its real life counterpart is the Westminster Hall.
Changelog[]
- Originally, the Council Hall could only train Longbowmen. With the Season Four Update, it acts as a fully functional Archery Range, retains the feature of working 100% faster, and now affects all productions and researches.
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References[]
- ↑ Town Centers, Outposts, Towers, and Keeps provide the Network of Castles bonus, increasing attack speed of nearby units by +15%, when enemies are in range.
