Fixed Gun (Maltese)

This article is about the defensive building unique to the Maltese in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean. For the building featured in the campaign and available in the Scenario Editor, see Fixed Gun (Scenario Editor).

Fixed Gun
Information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean
Type	Artillery Building Military Frontier fortification
Civilization(s)	Maltese
Age	Fortress Age
Use	Attacks nearby enemies
Building
Built by	Grand Master Fixed Gun Wagon
Cost	100 Wood 600 Coin 6 Population
Max. builders	1
Build time	30 seconds
Statistics
Size	4x4.5
Hit points	2,250
Line of Sight	36
Special ability	See Special abilities
XP build bounty	70
XP kill bounty	70
Anti-ship attack
Damage	300 Siege
Area of Effect	1
Range	14-45
Rate of Fire	6.0
Bonus damage	0.5x Siege unit 0.0x land military and land economy units
Bombard attack
Damage	300 Siege
Area of Effect	5
Range	14-34
Rate of Fire	6.0
Bonus damage	6.67x Gatling Camel 5.0x Fixed Gun 0.75x Cavalry 0.45x Shock infantry 0.25x Villager 0.2x Artillery 0.1x Siege unit 0.01x Hunted animals

“	Powerful stationary artillery.	”
—In-game description

The Fixed Gun is a defensive building and artillery unit in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean that is unique to the Maltese and can only be built by the Grand Master or Fixed Gun Wagon shipped from the Home City.

Overview

The Fixed Gun is a unique Maltese fortification that is available starting in the Fortress Age. While strong against buildings and most units, it has a minimum range that necessitates it being guarded, and is especially weak against anti-artillery units such as Culverins.

Some units (the Heavy Cannon, Great Bombard, Organ Gun, Rocket, Arrow Knight, Gatling Gun, Yabusame, Hand Mortar, Flamethrower, Siege Elephant, Huaraca, Sebastopol Mortar, and Papal Bombard) have hidden multipliers against the Fixed Gun, to adjust proper damage to the Fixed Gun since it is tagged as both building and artillery.

Special abilities

• Long-range Bombardment Attack (available from the Industrial Age): Fires a well-placed shot to the target from a range of 60, doing 300 (4.0x against buildings, 2.5x against warships, 0.34x against Fixed Guns, and 0.0x against land military and land economy units) siege damage in an Area of Effect of 1. Cannot target land units. 60 seconds cooldown.
• Deconstruct: Deconstructs this Fixed Gun to refund 90% of its resource cost (90 wood, 540 coin). Takes 30 seconds to complete.

Upgrades

Age	Upgrade	Cost	Effect
	Heavy Fixed Guns	250 food 250 wood	Upgrade Fixed Gun to Heavy (+50% hit points, +6 range)
	Imperial Fixed Guns	500 wood 500 coin	Upgrade Fixed Guns to Imperial (+50% hit points and attack, +1 bombard attack Area of Effect); requires Heavy Fixed Guns

Further statistics

Unit strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Infantry, ships, buildings
Weak vs.	Cavalry, Culverins, siege units
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%) Professional Gunners (+10%) Tar Kilns (+5%)
Attack	Smokeless Powder (+5%) Heated Shot (+50% multiplier vs. ships) Somali Ajuran Engineers (+20% multiplier vs. Frontier fortification)
Line of Sight	Gunner's Quadrant (+6) Town Watch (+3)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost) Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Other	Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Fixed Gun

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team
Blue	Shipment that arrives fast (5 seconds)

All

Card	Description	Age
Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points (also +4 Uhlans for the Germans)
TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points
Heavy Fortifications	Grants all defensive building upgrades (if not already); costs 250 wood
Extensive Fortifications	Outpost build limit +100%; frontier fortifications, Walls, and Forts get +25% hit points
Monumental Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points; Town Centers get +35% attack
TEAM Coastal Defenses	Buildings get +0.8 attack multiplier against ships

• "TEAM Conestoga Wagons" is available to the Germans and Lakota.
• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.
• "Heavy Fortifications" is available to Africans, Europeans (except Germans and Ottomans), Federal Americans, and Native Americans.
• "Extensive Fortifications" is available to Asians, Europeans (except Germans, Portuguese, and Russians), and Native Americans (except the Aztecs).
• "Monumental Architecture" is available to the Inca, and also Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.
• "TEAM Coastal Defenses" is available to Europeans and Federal Americans.

Chinese

Card	Description	Age
Siege Hitpoints	Artillery and Flamethrowers get +15% hit points; grenade troopers get +20% hit points
Siege Attack	Artillery and Flamethrowers get +15% attack; grenade troopers get +20% attack
Siege Combat	Artillery get +15% hit points and attack; Flamethrowers and grenade troopers get +20% hit points and attack
TEAM Engineering School	Artillery, Fixed Gun, Siege Elephant, Flamethrower, Ram, Mantlet, and Haudenosaunee Mantlet train time -15%; Heavy Cannon, Great Bombard, Rocket, Flying Crow, and Gatling Camel train time -5%

Ethiopians

Card	Description	Age
Italian Firearms	Ships 3 Li'l Bombards; artillery except Culverins get +25% Area of Effect; costs 2,500 influence

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Engineering School	Artillery, Fixed Gun, Siege Elephant, Flamethrower, Ram, Mantlet, and Haudenosaunee Mantlet train time -30%; Heavy Cannon, Great Bombard, Rocket, Flying Crow, and Gatling Camel train time -10%
Lantakas	Artillery, buildings, and ships get +15% attack
Knox's Continental Artillery	Ships 5 Consulate Culverins; artillery get +10% hit points and -10% train time; Culverins get +20% hit points and -25% train time instead; costs 500 wood

• "Engineering School" is available to the French, Ottomans, Portuguese, Russians, and Swedes.
• "Lantakas" is available to the Dutch and Portuguese upon revolting to Indonesia.
• "Knox's Continental Artillery" is available to the British, Dutch, French, Italians, and Swedes upon revolting to the United States.

Japanese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Odzutsu Mortars	Artillery get +10% attack
TEAM Sengoku	Unit upgrades cost -20%
Bakufu	Daimyo and Shogun Tokugawa get +5% speed, +10 Line of Sight and train units 15% faster; land military unit train time -20%, artillery and banner army train time -10% instead

Maltese

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Knights of the Round Table	Ships 1 Hospitaller for each Town Center owned by the player; all units get +2% hit points
TEAM Saluting Battery	Ships 1 Fixed Gun Wagon
1 Fixed Gun Wagon	Ships 1 Fixed Gun Wagon
2 Fixed Gun Wagons	Ships 2 Fixed Gun Wagons

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Plan of Veracruz	[Plan] Turns all Outposts into Falconets; upgrades Falconets to Field Guns (if not already); artillery get +4 Line of Sight; costs 250 food, 250 wood
TEAM Mariachi	For the next 30 seconds, military buildings work 400% faster and units get +10% speed
Colegio de San Nicolás	Ships 500 XP; units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
Talavera Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points, -30% build time, and grant coin upon being built instead of XP

• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Talavera Architecture" is available upon selecting the Puebla Federal State.

Ottomans

Card	Description	Age
Topçular	Artillery, Abus Gunners, and grenade troopers get +15% hit points and attack

Portuguese

Card	Description	Age
Artillery Hitpoints	Grenade troopers get +30% hit points; artillery get +15% hit points

Spanish

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Spanish Inquisition	Ships 1 Inquisitor; all units get +10 Line of Sight

United States

Card	Description	Age
Indiana Mobilization	Ships 1 Carbine Cavalry for each shipment sent so far this game including this one; unit train time (except Heavy Cannons), technology research time, and age-up time -10%; costs 250 food, 250 wood
Connecticut Shipwrights	Ship train time -50%; building build time -35%; artillery train time -15%, Heavy Cannon train time -10% instead

• "Indiana Mobilization" is available upon selecting Indiana as the Fortress Age Federal State.
• "Connecticut Shipwrights" is available upon selecting Connecticut as the Imperial Age Federal State.

Changelog

Knights of the Mediterranean

• With update 14.43676, Fixed Gun population cost changed from 7 to 6. Range changed from 35 to 34.

History

“

As the early modern period brought more powerful weaponry and technology, innovations were made offensively as well as defensively. One such development was the use of fixed artillery pieces, which primarily had a defensive role. Although immobile, their strong firepower made them deadly against soldiers and ships alike - and, of course, to any buildings in the vicinity. However, their lack of mobility was also a crucial weakness; they were difficult, if not impossible to portage, and prone to capture if not properly defended.

”

Gallery

An in-game Fixed Gun