Siege Workshop (Age of Empires III)

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

Siege Workshop
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Military
Civilization	Haudenosaunee
Age	Fortress Age
Use	Trains and upgrades siege units and artillery
Construction
Wood	200
Max. builders	8
Build time	30 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	2,500
Line of Sight	12
XP build bounty	20
XP bounty	40

“	Trains and upgrades artillery.	”
—In-game description

The Siege Workshop is a military building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Haudenosaunee and becomes available once the Fortress Age is reached. It fulfills a similar role to the European Artillery Foundry.

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.
	Ram	80 food, 120 wood	2
	Mantlet	75 wood, 125 coin
	Light Cannon	100 wood, 300 coin	4

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Siege Drill	500 food, 500 wood	Rams, Mantlets, and Light Cannons get +10% speed

Further statistics

As Siege Workshops are unique to the Haudenosaunee, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following table:

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)

Home City Cards

As Siege Workshops are unique to the Haudenosaunee, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following table:

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Siege Workshop
Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Haudenosaunee Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Old Ways Big Button improvements cost -50% 40

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• Siege Workshops cost 300 wood, giving it a build bounty of 30 XP and a destroy bounty of 60 XP.

Definitive Edition

• Siege Workshops now cost 200 wood, reducing its build and destroy bounty to 20 XP and 40 XP, respectively.

History

“

The manufacture of artillery is a laborious process involving furnaces and cranes to move the heavy barrels through several stages of construction.

”

Gallery

In-game Siege Workshop