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โ€œ Sturdy wooden stronghold with extensive line of sight that detects units stealth or disguises. Can be upgraded with weaponry. Attacks while garrisoned. โ€
Age of Empires IV description

The Wooden Fortress is the unique Outpost of the Rus in Age of Empires IV. The Wooden Fortress is a sturdy wooden stronghold with an extensive Line of Sight and can be used as a garrison in case of attack.

Unlike the Town Center and the Keep, the Wooden Fortress cannot attack by default. Garrisoning Villagers and foot soldiers, or researching emplacements, adds projectiles.

Abilities and influences[]

  • AoE4 InfluenceBuff Wooden Fortress Influence (Passive): The Wooden Fortress generates an 8 x 8 tile influence area. Lumber Camps and Town Centers within the influence of a Wooden Fortress return +20% wood and extend the influence area by 1 tile around their footprint.

Tactics[]

Main article: Outpost (Age of Empires IV)#Tactics
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While Wooden Fortresses and Outposts are supposed to fill the same role, the former is pretty expensive, but has its benefits.

In addition to doing everything generic Outposts can do, Wooden Fortresses can also provide an influence to boost wood collection.

Available technologies[]

Generic emplacements[]

Wooden Fortresses can have both the Arrowslits and Springald Emplacement researched, unlike Outposts which can only research one weapon emplacement. Wooden Fortresses do not have Cannon Emplacement or Fortify Outpost emplacements.

Unique emplacements[]

Comparison with the Outpost[]

AoE4 WoodenFortress Wooden Fortress AoE4 Outpost Outpost
Wood cost 175 100
Hit points 1,750 750
Rate of Fire 1.88 seconds 3.88 seconds
Garrison 8 5
Additional
emplacements
AoE4 CastleWatch Castle Watch
50 stone, 15 seconds
+6 Line of Sight
AoE4 FortifyOutpost Fortify Outpost
100 stone, 30 seconds
+1,000 HP, +5 fire armor
AoE4 CastleTurret Castle Turret
75 stone, 30 seconds
+2 attack on all projectiles
AoE4 CannonEmplacement Cannon Emplacement
125 gold, 375 stone, 60 seconds
70 attack, 10 range, 7 RoF

Further statistics[]

Technologies
Hpicon aoe2de Hit points AoE4 CourtArchitects Court Architects (+30%)
Attack AoE4 SteeledArrow Steeled Arrow (+1)
AoE4 BalancedProjectiles Balanced Projectiles (+1)
AoE4 PlatecutterPoint Platecutter Point (+1)
Emplacements
Attack AoE4 CastleTurret Castle Turret (+2)
Rangeicon aoe2de Range AoE4 Arrowslits Arrowslits (+1)
Additional projectiles AoE4 Arrowslits Arrowslits
AoE4 SpringaldEmplacement Springald Emplacement
Line of Sight AoE4 CastleWatch Castle Watch (+6)

Changelog[]

  • Originally, Wooden Fortress arrows dealt +25 bonus damage to Ships. With update 24916, this was reduced to +10.
  • Originally, Wooden Fortresses had 2,000 hit points. With update 7.0.5861, it was reduced to 1,750.

Campaign version[]

Because the original four campaigns have not been rebalanced since the release of the game, Wooden Fortresses have the following differences in those campaigns:

  • They have 2500 hit points and can only garrison 3 units
  • Their garrison arrow attack deals 9 damage with 9 tiles of range, every 2.62 seconds, and has no attack bonus vs ships

Trivia[]

  • The Wooden Fortress is based on Ostrog-type fortifications.

Gallery[]

Buildings in Age of Empires IV
Common/Generic
Economic AoE4 Farm Farm ยท AoE4 House House ยท AoE4 LumberCamp Lumber Camp ยท AoE4 Market Market ยท AoE4 Mill Mill ยท AoE4 MiningCamp Mining Camp ยท AoE4 TownCenter Town Center ยท AoE4 TradePost/AoE4 CoastalTradePost Trade Post
Military AoE4 ArcheryRange Archery Range ยท AoE4 Barracks Barracks ยท AoE4 Dock Dock ยท AoE4 SiegeWorkshop Siege Workshop ยท AoE4 Stable Stable
Technology AoE4 Blacksmith Blacksmith ยท AoE4 University University/Madrasa
Defense AoE4 Keep Keep ยท AoE4 Outpost Outpost (AoE4 TollOutpost Toll Outpost) ยท AoE4 PalisadeGate Palisade Gate ยท AoE4 PalisadeWall Palisade Wall ยท AoE4 StoneWall Stone Wall ยท AoE4 StoneWallGate Stone Wall Gate ยท AoE4 StoneWallTower Stone Wall Tower
Religious AoE4 Monastery Monastery ยท AoE4 Mosque Mosque ยท AoE4 Monastery Prayer Tent
Victory Wonder ยท Sacred Site
Unique
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 Aqueduct Aqueduct ยท AoE4 Cistern Cistern ยท AoE4 MercenaryHouse Mercenary House ยท AoE4 OliveGrove Olive Grove
Chinese AoE4 Chinese
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy
AoE4 Village Village ยท AoE4 Granary Granary ยท AoE4 Pagoda Pagoda
English AoE4 English AoE4 SetupCamp Campfire
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 BuddhistTemple Buddhist Temple ยท AoE4 Keep Castle ยท AoE4 Farmhouse Farmhouse ยท AoE4 Forge Forge ยท AoE4 ShintoShrine Shinto Shrine
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 CattleRanch Cattle Ranch ยท AoE4 PitMine Pit Mine
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 Ger Ger ยท AoE4 Ovoo Ovoo ยท AoE4 Pasture Pasture
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 MilitarySchool Military School
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 HuntingCabin Hunting Cabin ยท AoE4 WoodenFortress Wooden Fortress ยท AoE4 PalisadeGate Fortified Palisade Gate ยท AoE4 PalisadeWall Fortified Palisade Wall
Landmarks
Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Abbasid Dynasty
Ayyubids AoE4 Ayyubids
AoE4 HouseOfWisdom House of Wisdom
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 GrandWinery Grand Winery ยท AoE4 ImperialHippodrome Imperial Hippodrome ยท AoE4 GoldenHornTower Golden Horn Tower ยท AoE4 CisternoftheFirstHill Cistern of the First Hill ยท AoE4 ForeignEngineeringCompany Foreign Engineering Company ยท AoE4 PalatineSchool Palatine School
Chinese AoE4 Chinese AoE4 ImperialAcademy Imperial Academy ยท AoE4 BarbicanOfTheSun Barbican of the Sun ยท AoE4 AstronomicalClocktower Astronomical Clocktower ยท AoE4 ImperialPalace Imperial Palace ยท AoE4 GreatWallGatehouse Great Wall Gatehouse ยท AoE4 SpiritWay Spirit Way
Delhi Sultanate AoE4 Delhi Sultanate AoE4 DomeOfTheFaith Dome of the Faith ยท AoE4 TowerOfVictory Tower of Victory ยท AoE4 CompoundOfTheDefender Compound of the Defender ยท AoE4 HouseOfLearning House of Learning ยท AoE4 HisarAcademy Hisar Academy ยท AoE4 PalaceOfTheSultan Palace of the Sultan
English AoE4 English AoE4 AbbeyOfKings Abbey of Kings ยท AoE4 CouncilHall Council Hall ยท AoE4 KingsPalace King's Palace ยท AoE4 TheWhiteTower The White Tower ยท AoE4 BerkshirePalace Berkshire Palace ยท AoE4 WynguardPalace Wynguard Palace
French AoE4 French
Jeanne d Arc AoE4 Jeanne d'Arc
AoE4 ChamberOfCommerce Chamber of Commerce ยท AoE4 SchoolOfCavalry School of Cavalry ยท AoE4 GuildHall Guild Hall ยท AoE4 RoyalInstitute Royal Institute ยท AoE4 CollegeOfArtillery College of Artillery ยท AoE4 RedPalace Red Palace
HRE AoE4 Holy Roman Empire
Order of the Dragon AoE4 Order of the Dragon
AoE4 AachenChapel Aachen Chapel ยท AoE4 MeinwerkPalace Meinwerk Palace ยท AoE4 BurgravePalace Burgrave Palace ยท AoE4 RegnitzCathedral Regnitz Cathedral ยท AoE4 ElzbachPalace Elzbach Palace ยท AoE4 PalaceOfSwabia Palace of Swabia
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 KokaTownship Koka Township ยท AoE4 KuraStorehouse Kura Storehouse ยท AoE4 FloatingGate Floating Gate ยท AoE4 TempleofEquality Temple of Equality ยท AoE4 CastleoftheCrow Castle of the Crow ยท AoE4 TanegashimaGunsmith Tanegashima Gunsmith
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 SaharanTradeNetwork Saharan Trade Network ยท AoE4 MansaQuarry Mansa Quarry ยท AoE4 GrandFulaniCorral Grand Fulani Corral ยท AoE4 FarimbaGarrison Farimba Garrison ยท AoE4 FortOfTheHuntress Fort of the Huntress ยท AoE4 GriotBara Griot Bara
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 DeerStones Deer Stones ยท AoE4 TheSilverTree The Silver Tree ยท AoE4 Kurultai Kurultai ยท AoE4 SteppeRedoubt Steppe Redoubt ยท AoE4 KhaganatePalace Khaganate Palace ยท AoE4 TheWhiteStupa The White Stupa
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 TwinMinaretMedrese Twin Minaret Medrese ยท AoE4 SultanhaniTradeNetwork Sultanhani Trade Network ยท AoE4 InstanbulImperialPalace Istanbul Imperial Palace ยท AoE4 MehmedImperialArmory Mehmed Imperial Armory ยท AoE4 IstanbulObservatory Istanbul Observatory ยท AoE4 SeaGateCastle Sea Gate Castle
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 Kremlin Kremlin ยท AoE4 TheGoldenGate The Golden Gate ยท AoE4 AbbeyOfTheTrinity Abbey of the Trinity ยท AoE4 HighTradeHouse High Trade House ยท AoE4 HighArmory High Armory ยท AoE4 SpasskayaTower Spasskaya Tower
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy AoE4 MeditationGardens Meditation Gardens ยท AoE4 JiangnanTower Jiangnan Tower ยท AoE4 MountLuAcademy Mount Lu Academy ยท AoE4 ShaolinMonastery Shaolin Monastery ยท AoE4 ZhuXisLibrary Zhu Xi's Library ยท AoE4 TempleoftheSun Temple of the Sun
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