Shipyard

Shipyard
Building information
Introduced in	Chronicles
Type	Military
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Civic Age
Use	Train military Research military naval technologies
Construction
Wood	150
Build time	35 seconds
Statistics
Size	3×3 tiles
Hit points	1,800
Garrison	10
Melee armor	1 2 3
Pierce armor	8 9 10
Armor classes	Building Standard building
Line of Sight	6

“	Used to build and upgrade military ships.	”
—In-game description

The Shipyard is a Civic Age miltiary building in Chronicles. It handles only the military aspects of a Dock in Age of Empires II. Advanced warships can be trained and upgraded in this building. Constructing a Shipyard counts towards the building requirement for advancing to the Classical Age.

The maritime economic matters are handled by the Port.

Tactics and placement

As it is a military building, it should be placed towards the enemy, so as to move trained warships quickly into position.

Technology tree

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						Requires Flaming Arrows

Availability grid

The following table shows the availability of the units and technologies for every civilization.

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Civilization
Achaemenids
Athenians
Spartans

Further statistics

Technologies
Hit points	Masonry (+10%) Architecture (+10%)
Armor	Masonry (+1/+1, +3 building armor) Architecture (+1/+1, +3 building armor)
Conversion resistance	Exorcism (+4 min, +4 max) Hemlock (die upon getting converted)
Line of Sight	Town Watch (+4) Town Patrol (+4)
Creation speed	Shipwright (+53%) Conscription (+33%) Naval Policy (+15%, Athenians only)
Research speed	Conscription (+33%)
Build speed	Treadmill Crane (+20%)

Civilization bonuses
Creation speed	Achaemenids (+15%)
Research speed	Achaemenids (+15%)

Aura enhancements
Creation speed	Military Town Center (+50%, Achaemenids only)
Research speed	Military Town Center (+50%, Achaemenids only)

Team bonuses
Conversion resistance	Teutons (+3 min, +1 max)
Research speed	Athenians (+50%) Portuguese (+25%)
Other	Georgians (-25% repair cost)

Architecture

Greek

The Greek Shipyard is based on the ancient Greek neosoikoi ship houses. It has a hypaethral opening, though this was more commonly a feature of some Hellenistic period temples.

Persian

The Persian Shipyard is a Mesopotamianized version of the neosoikoi with glazed blue bricks. It features the decorative flowers from the Ishtar Gate and Achaemenid style column capitols.

Trivia

• Despite being available in the Civic Age, its appearance matches the Classical Age architecture sets and does not change after progressing to the next Age.
• The Slavic team bonus does not affect Shipyards either.

Gallery

A Greek (Athenian and Spartan) Shipyard

A Persian (Achaemenid) Shipyard