Wall (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building in other games of the series, see Wall.

Wall
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Building Wall
Civilization	All
Age	Exploration Age Industrial Age (Lakota)
Use	Delay enemy units, and allows the player to protect their units from meele attacks, but not ranged
Construction
Wood	10
Build time	7 seconds (Segment) 1 second (Pillar)
Statistics
Hit points	1,000
Line of Sight	1 (Segment) 2 (Pillar)
XP build bounty	1
Notes
XP build bounty only available with the Yoruba Eredo Legacy technology A Wall Pillar increases its own hit points and that of adjacent wall segments by +50%

“	A wall. Prevents enemies from entering a colony.	”
—In-game description

The Wall is a defensive structure in Age of Empires III. Available in the Exploration Age, its purpose is to protect an area from enemy attacks. The Wall is available to all civilizations in the Exploration Age, except the Lakota, who can build it from the Industrial Age*.

A Gate can be upgraded on a Wall section which lets through own units and allied units, but never enemy units.

The Church or Wall itself provides the Bastion upgrade, along with the appropriate Gates for stone Walls.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Build Gate	50 wood	Places a Gate in this wall. Allied units can pass through but enemies cannot	All
	Bastion	400 wood 600 coin	Walls get +600% hit points and +80% build time	EU NA AS
	Redoubts		Walls get +400% hit points, -20% cost, and +70%	FA
	City Walls	1,000 influence	Walls get +600% hit points and +80% build time	AF

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Bastion (+600%; Europeans only) City Walls (+600%; Africans only) Redoubts (+400%; Federal Americans only) State Constitutions (+125%; United States only) Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Line of Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Cost	Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Redoubts (-20%; Federal Americans only) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)
Other	Yoruba Eredo Legacy (grants +1 XP upon building)
Penalties	Bastion (+80% build time; Europeans only) City Walls (+80% build time; Africans only) Redoubts (+70% build time; Federal Americans only) Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost; John Black's Mercenaries only) Code Napoleon (+25% cost; French only)

Home City Cards

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Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

All

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points		10
TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points		10
Heavy Fortifications	Grants all defensive building upgrades (if not already); costs 250 wood		25
Extensive Fortifications	Frontier fortifications, Walls, and Forts get +25% hit points; Outpost build limit +100%		1

• "Improved Buildings" is available to Europeans and Federal Americans.
• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.
• "Heavy Fortifications" is available to Europeans (except Germans, Ottomans, Russians, and Spanish) and Federal Americans.
• "Extensive Fortifications" is available to Europeans (except Germans, Portuguese, and Russians) and Mexicans.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Great Wall	Walls get +600% hit points and +500% build time		10

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Gondarine Architecture	Buildings get +25% hit points; Town Centers and Palaces get +50% hit points instead; Mountain Monasteries get +100% hit points instead; Walls get +225% hit points instead

Hausa

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Ancient Kano Walls	TEAM Wall hitpoints are improved by nearby military units
TEAM Hausa Gates	Walls and Gates return their cost when destroyed; Gates, Bastion, City Walls, and Redoubts cost -50%
Gatekeepers	Grants City Walls; Gates increase the attack of allied units in an Area of Effect of 15 around them by 5%

Inca

Card	Description	Age
Extensive Fortifications	Frontier fortifications, Walls, and Strongholds get +25% hit points; War Hut build limit +100%
TEAM Inca Walls	Walls get +150% hit points
Monumental Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points; Town Centers get +35% attack

Indians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Mughal Architecture	Building cost -20% wood and build time -30%; Wonder build time -16% instead; +1 Villager		40
Extensive Fortifications	Frontier fortifications, Walls, and Agra Fort get +25% hit points; Castle build limit +100%; +1 Hindu Villager		1

Italians

Card	Description	Age
Freemasons	Architects get +25% speed and construct buildings 65% faster, and Walls 36% faster instead

Japanese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Extensive Fortifications	Frontier fortifications and Walls get +25% hit points; Castle build limit +100%		1

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Presidios	The General can build Outposts; Fort build limit +1; Walls cost -20%; Outposts cost -30%; Forts cost -40%; Outpost, Wall, and Fort build time -20%
Campeche Fortifications	Bastion available at Walls
Talavera Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points, -30% build time, and grant coin upon being built instead of XP
Maya Architecture	All buildings except Forts get +30% hit points; buildings now give food as well as experience when built; grants Redoubts

• "Talavera Architecture" is available upon selecting the Puebla Federal State.
• "Maya Architecture" is available upon revolting to the Maya.

Native Americans

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Extensive Fortifications	Frontier fortifications and Walls get +25% hit points; War Hut build limit +100%		1

• "Extensive Fortifications" is available to the Haudenosaunee and Lakota.

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age	HC level
TEAM Improved Walls	Walls get +200% hit points		10

Russians

Card	Description	Age	HC level
Sevastopol	Town Center, Wall, Blockhouse, and Fort build time -50%		40

United States

Card	Description	Age
Connecticut Shipwrights	Artillery train time -25%, buildings' build time -35%, and warships' train time -50%

• "Connecticut Shipwrights" is available upon selecting the Connecticut Federal State.

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Walls cost 5 wood and have 3,000 hit points. Wall segments and pillars take 5 seconds to build and both have 4 Line of Sight.

The WarChiefs

• The Sioux cannot build Walls.

Definitive Edition

• Walls have 1,500 hit points and both Wall segments and pillars have 1 Line of Sight.
• The Lakota can build Walls from the Industrial Age.

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With patch 15.30007, Walls cost 6 wood and have 1,000 hit points. Wall segments take 7 seconds to build, Wall pillars increases its own hit points and that of adjacent Wall segments by +50%, take 1 second to build, and have 2 Line of Sight.
• With update 15.59076, Walls cost 10 wood.

History

“

Early fortifications in the New World were palisades constructed of sharpened tree trunks driven into the ground side by side to form walls. Some of these palisade walls, especially when a little green, were remarkably effective at withstanding bombardment by artillery because they could flex as they were hit, rather than splintering, like dried wood, or shattering, like masonry walls. More effective than either wood or stone at withstanding bombardment were the bermed earthworks famously ringing star forts like Fort McHenry. A fort in the era of cannon was a series of sculpted plains, ditches, bastions, and walls of earth and stone that maximized lines of sight and fire for defenders.

”

Gallery

A wooden Wall in-game

A stone Wall in-game after the Bastion upgrade

Aztec Wall after the Bastion upgrade

Iroquois Wall before the Bastion upgrade

Iroquois Wall after the Bastion upgrade

Aztec Wall after the Bastion upgrade in the Definitive Edition