Cities

A lightly developed city

Cities are the centers of population, production and power. When founded or captured, a city is assigned to a Family.

City sites

City sites are the only locations where Settlers can found new Cities. A city site can be claimed by a Nation as long as a unit is located on it.

Barbarians

Barbarians occupy City-States like other Tribes, but they are in a permanent state of War with all Nations. They have a number of special units: Marauders, Skirmishers, Elite Marauders and Elite Skirmishers.

Culture level

Each city has a culture level, which is increased each time the Culture bar fills. Culture level provides increasing bonuses to the city but also increasing costs per population.

Culture Level	Projects Tier	Hamlet Limit	Victory Points	Governor XP/Year	Can Hurry Production	Population Upkeep	Enabled Wonders of the World
Weak	I	1	+1	+4	No	1 Food	The Hanging Gardens The Oracle The Ziggurat
Developing	II	2	+2	+6	Yes	2 Food 1 Iron	The Apadana The Ishtar Gate The Lighthouse
Strong	III	3	+3	+8	Yes	3 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone	The Acropolis The Colossus The Mausoleum The Musaeum
Legendary	IV	4	+4	+10	Yes	4 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone 1 Wood	The Circus Maximus The Pantheon The Via Recta Souk

Improvements

Improvements can be used to grand various bonuses to a City. There are two types of improvements: rural and urban. If a Worker is selected the game will suggest the tile where each improvement is most effective.

Improvements without a Specialist will increase the City's Maintenance.

Rural improvements

Rural improvements can only be constructed on non-urban tiles. They require either certain terrain or a certain natural resource present on the tile.

Improvement	Yearly output	Specialist	Cost	Required terrain or natural resource	Required technology
Farm	+5 Food	Farmer	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate, Marsh (requires Centralization law) Barley, Sorghum, Wheat	None
Mine	+5 Iron	Miner	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate, Hill Gems, Gold, Ore, Salt, Silver	None
Nets	Various	Fisher	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Crabs, Dyes, Fish, Pearls	None
Fort	+50% Defense if Friendly/Neutral Territory +2 Unit Vision Can Heal in Neutral Territory Destroyed when Pillaged		40 Stone 1 Orders	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Stonecutting
Quarry	+5 Stone	Stonecutter	20 Iron 1 Orders for 3 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate, Adjacent Mountain, Adjacent Volcano Marble	Stonecutting
Granary	+2 Growth -1 Wood +60% Adjacent Farm Yield		40 Wood 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Administration
Camp	+20% Adjacent Lumbermill Yield	Trapper	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Camels, Elephants, Fur, Game	Trapping
Pasture	+40% Adjacent Farms Yield	Rancher	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Cattle, Goats, Horses, Pigs, Sheep	Husbandry
Lumbermill	+5 Wood	Woodcutter	20 Iron 1 Orders for 3 years	Trees	Forestry
Grove	Various	Gardener	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Citrus, Honey, Incense, Lavender, Olives, Wine	Land Consolidation

Urban improvements

Urban improvements can be constructed only in the following:

• An urban tile.
• A tile adjacent to two urban tiles. The tile will become urban once the improvement is completed.
• A tile adjacent to one urban tile and one water tile. The tile will become urban once the improvement is completed.

Improvement	Yearly output	Cost	Terrain if not urban	Required technology	Min culture level
Odeon	+3 Culture -2 Stone Enables Poets	40 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Drama	Weak
Barracks	+10 XP per year for Idle Melee Units +20% Adjacent Garrison Effects +20% Training -2 Iron Enables Officers	40 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Military Drill	Weak
Range	+10 XP per year for Idle Ranged Units +20% Adjacent Garrison Effects +20% Training -2 Wood Enables Officers	40 Wood 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Composite Bow	Weak
Cold Baths	+1 Happiness -2 Stone Enables Doctors	40 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Coinage	Developing
Courthouse	+20% Civics -2 Stone Enables Scribes	80 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Citizenship	Developing
Library	+20% Science +1 Science per adjacent resource Enables Philosophers	80 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Scholarship	Developing
Market	+20% Adjacent Harbor Effects +20% Money Enables Shopkeepers	80 Wood 1 Orders for 4 years	Arid, Lush, Temperate	Coinage	Developing

Barracks and Ranges are limited to 2 per City.

Hamlets

Hamlets may be built anywhere. In 20 turns it will grow into a Village, and in another 20 turns it will grow into a Town. Only one Hamlet may be built for each Culture Level of a City.

Shrines

Shrines may be built anywhere and gain various bonuses depending on their location and the Nation's Religion. They may not be built next to each other.

Specialists

Specialists are unlocked by certain Improvements that can be trained to boost the yield of the Improvement. All Specialists also produce a small amount of Science. A Specialist's production cost increases with each one built in a city.

Rural specialists

Rural specialists produce 1 Science. They can also provide Luxuries if the Improvement is built on a natural resource that can produce it.

Specialist	Improvement	Yearly effect	Cost
Farmer	Farm	150% Improvement Production 1 Growth	40 Civics
Miner	Mine	150% Improvement Production 1 Training	40 Civics
Stonecutter	Quarry	150% Improvement Production 1 Civics	40 Civics
Woodcutter	Lumbermill	150% Improvement Production 1 Science	40 Civics
Fisher	Nets	200% Improvement Production	60 Civics 20 Food
Gardener	Grove	200% Improvement Production	60 Civics 20 Food
Rancher	Pasture	200% Improvement Production	60 Civics 20 Food
Trapper	Camp	200% Improvement Production	60 Civics 20 Food

Urban specialists

Urban specialists can be upgraded, improving their bonuses. Upgrading a specialist does not require Citizens.

• Training an Apprentice specialist costs 40 Food and 40 Civics and produces a bonus of 2 Science each year.
• Upgrading to Master specialist costs 60 Food and 60 Civics and produces a bonus of 3 Science each year.
• Upgrading to Elder specialist costs 80 Food and 80 Civics and produces a bonus of 4 Science each year.

Specialist	Improvement	Apprentice yearly effect	Master yearly effect	Elder yearly effect
Acolyte	Shrine	1 Religion Opinion 2 Culture	2 Religion Opinion 3 Culture 0.5 Orders	3 Religion Opinion 4 Culture 1 Orders
Monk	Monastery	1 Religion Opinion 4 Culture	2 Religion Opinion 6 Culture 1 Civics per Culture Level	3 Religion Opinion 8 Culture 2 Civics per Culture Level
Priest	Temple	1 Religion Opinion 1 Happiness	2 Religion Opinion 1.5 Happiness 0.5 Training per Citizen	3 Religion Opinion 2 Happiness 1 Training per Citizen
Bishop	Cathedral	1 Religion Opinion 10 Money per Culture Level	2 Religion Opinion 15 Money per Culture Level 0.5 Orders	3 Religion Opinion 20 Money per Culture Level 1 Orders
Officer	Barracks Range	2 Training	3 Training 20 XP for New Units	4 Training 50 XP for New Units
Poet	Odeon	3 Culture	4 Culture 0.5 Civics per Citizen	5 Culture 1 Civics per Citizen
Doctor	Cold Baths	2 Growth	3 Growth 1 Science per Culture Level	4 Growth 2 Science per Culture Level
Philosopher	Library	2 Science	3 Science 1 Culture per Citizen	4 Science 2 Culture per Citizen
Scribe	Courthouse	2 Civics	3 Civics 1 Money per Citizen	4 Civics 2 Money per Citizen
Shopkeeper	Market	20 Money	30 Money 1 Growth per Culture Level	40 Money 2 Growth per Culture Level

Wonders of the World

Wonders of the World are powerful Improvements that can only be constructed once. As soon as a Nation begins constructing a Wonder of the World other Nations cannot start it unless a hostile unit enters the tile of an unfinished Wonder of the World and destroys it. Not all Wonders of the World are available each game. They are chosen randomly at the start of each game. Each Wonder of the World provides 2 Victory Points.

Projects

Projects are internal City enhancements that on completion grant an instant bonus and a permanent bonus. Each Project can only be constructed in Cities with the same tier of Culture Level.

Project	Tier I			Tier II			Tier III			Tier IV			Requirements
	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost
Council		+40% (one turn) +40% (one turn) +40% (one turn)	1 Turn		+60% (one turn) +60% (one turn) +60% (one turn)	1 Turn		+80% (one turn) +80% (one turn) +80% (one turn)	1 Turn		+100% (one turn) +100% (one turn) +100% (one turn)	1 Turn
Festival	1 per year	20 20	40	1 per year	40 40	60	1 per year	60 60	80	1 per year	80 80	100
Treasury	10 per year	100	40 20	20 per year	200	60 40	30 per year	300	80 60	40 per year 1 per year	400	100 80	Administration technology
Forum	1 per year	20	40 20	2 per year	40	60 40	3 per year	60	80 60	4 per year 1 per year	80	100 80	Rhetoric technology
Archive	1 per year	10	40 20	2 per year	20	60 40	3 per year	30	80 60	4 per year 1 per year	40	100 80	Metaphysics technology
Olympiad	1 per year	50	40	1 per year	100	60	1 per year	150	80	1 per year	200	100	Greece nation