Siege Workshop (Age of Empires)

The Siege Workshop serves as the siege unit training building in Age of Empires. It benefits from Architecture which increases its hit points by 70 and decreases its construction time. It can be built in the Bronze Age if the Archery Range is built.

Upgrades Edit

Bronze Age

•  Architecture increases its Hit Points by 70 and reduces build time by 13 seconds.

Civilization bonuses Edit

• Roman Siege Workshops cost 10% less.
• Macedonian Siege Workshops are 4 times more resistant to conversion.

History Edit

"The earliest fortifications yet discovered date from 7000 B.C., but evidence of siege weapons doesn't appear until much later.  We can assume, however, that siege equipment was in use long before the first evidence that has survived.  Evidence of a scaling ladder does not appear until about 2500 B.C.  The earliest record of a simple battering ram comes from 1900 B.C.  A more powerful ram plus the undermining of walls appears by 880 B.C.  The mobile siege tower first appears one hundred years later.  The catapult was invented by Greeks in 397 B.C.  There were no further significant advances in siege engines until the advent of gunpowder. "

—Age of Empires manual

Siege Workshop Tree
Bronze Age Siege Workshop Stone Thrower Iron Age Catapult Ballista Heavy Catapult Helepolis