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	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	5
Construction time	5 seconds
Statistics
Hit points	1,500
Line of Sight	1
XP build bounty	1
Notes
XP build bounty only available with the Yoruba Eredo Legacy technology

“	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 +400% hit points but increases Wall build time by 50%	EU NA AS
	Redoubts		Walls get +200% hit points and -20% cost, but increases Wall build time by 40%	AM
	City Walls		Walls get +400% hit points but increases Wall build time by 50%	AF

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Sight	Gas Lighting (+4, European and American civilizations only)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
Other	Yoruba Eredo Legacy (give 1 XP when built)
Penalties	Code Napoleon (+50% cost, French only) Customized Merc Weapons (+30% cost, John Black's Mercenaries only)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Wall

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 Extensive Fortifications Outposts get +7 build limit; Outposts, Forts and Walls get +25% hit points 1 Heavy Fortifications Grants all defensive building upgrades (if not already) 25 The Indians have TEAM Improved Buildings instead of Improved Buildings. The Extensive Fortifications card is not available to Germans and Portuguese. The Heavy Fortifications card is not available to Asians, Germans and Ottomans. Chinese Card Description Age HC level Great Wall Walls get +500% hit points and +500% build time 10 Incas Card Description Age TEAM Inca Walls Walls get +100% hit points Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Mughal Architecture Buildings except wonders cost -20% wood and build time -50%; +1 Villager 40 Portuguese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Walls Walls get +50% hit points 10 Russians Card Description Age HC level Sevastopol Town Center, Wall, Blockhouse, and Fort build time -50% 40

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Walls have 3,000 hit points and 4 LOS.

The WarChiefs

• The Sioux cannot build Walls.

Definitive Edition

• Walls have 1,500 hit points and 1 LOS.
• The Lakota can build Walls from the Industrial Age.

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