Buildings

Barracks

The Barracks gives newly raised units in its city starting experience — the building unlocked by the harp branch's first node, Archery.

Its effects

• Units raised in this city start with +2 experience

Every unit raised in this city — whatever its type — starts with

experience instead of zero (Experience and promotion, "Starting experience"). For a unit raised in a city with no Barracks, this share is always zero.

An extra share for infantry

A player who knows Household Troops gets an extra experience share on top of the Barracks' own share for their infantry types (Spearman, Janissary, Archer) — but only if the Barracks is already present in the city where the unit is raised; in a city with no Barracks, kapikulu gives nothing either. Sipahi, Artillery and Forlorn Hope do not count as infantry, so they never benefit from this extra share.

When to build it

In a city where you raise units often: the share is not a one-off, it applies to every unit raised there. Over a long match, the discipline and morale-ceiling advantage that a unit reaching rank early carries through the fighting adds up (Morale and rout, Experience and promotion).

The numbers on this page are read from the game’s balance tables.