City Center

“The center of your civilization, it is here that your people will advance through the ages of history.”

“The Town Center also grants enemies a victory star in battle if it falls, and stores a small amount of food and gold (600 each).”

Levels

Description

The Town Center, which later becomes the City Center is the player's 'main building' of the game. It stores a few resources and it's the only way to advance Ages.

Invading enemies will gain one star and win if the City Center is destroyed. The City Center has certain defensive capabilities if the Chinese or Japanese are chosen.
- Note that if you have the Forbidden City wonder constructed, invading enemies will not gain a star from destroying the City Center unless the Forbidden City is destroyed as well.
The City Center starts out as the Town Center from the Dawn Age to the Enlightenment Age and becomes the City Center at the Industrial Age.
A loading screen tip: "...the level of Town Center defenders is based off your highest level Garrison."
Japanese Town/City Center can shoot invading enemies.
The size of this building is 6x6.

Defensive Strategies

The Town Center is one of the most important buildings in the game due to providing different functions. A destroyed Town Center can equal one star and if destroyed in less than a minute; will give another star. The Town Center's function varies in these types of bases below.

Medal-Pushing

A Medal-Pushing base's goal is to focus on winning defenses to get more medals to push to a higher league. In a Medal-Pushing base, the Town Center must be in in the center of the base to prevent its destruction. Markets, Oil Refineries, and Mills are suggested to be outside the base since resources aren't the highest priority.

Hybrid

A hybrid base's goal is to win defenses while defending both the Town Center and the resources. In a hybrid base, the Town Center must be in in the center of the base to prevent its destruction. The resources are also necessary so Markets, Oil Refineries, and Mills are required to be inside the base. These bases are half as efficient as a Medal-Pushing Base and a Farming Base due to the fact that the base must defend two things at once in order to be successful.

Farming

A farming base's only priority is to defend your resources. In a farming base, the Town Center must be outside of the base to make opponents focus on it for medals and not your resources. However, the Town Center must still connect to a Road if the Road is to keep making Gold. Markets, Oil Refineries, and Mills should be inside the base since a farming base's priority is to defend them. Farming bases are sometimes used as medal-pushing bases because a 2-star loss for losing the Town Center doesn't cost a lot of medals.

Statistics

Boost Statistics

Roads provide a health bonus to the Town Center based on how many building are connected to the road network.
Having the Indian Coalition increases Wall and Town Center hitpoints.
The Ramparts technology researched in the library provides a 15% boost to the Town Center hitpoints (chapter 4).
The Roadways technology researched in the library provides a 20% increase to the Town Center hitpoint bonus provided by Roads (chapter 4).
The Partisans technology researched in the library causes the Town Center to release Infantry when invading troops are detected. +4 per chapter (chapter 2 & 4).
The Town Center of the Japanese nation acts as an archer tower, firing arrows at invading troops. The range is slightly higher than that of a standard tower, while having a decreased rate of fire.
The Town Center of the Chinese nation deploys infantry when invading troops are detected. The number of infantry released is dependent on the age the defender is in.
Catherine the Great in the University provides 3% reduction of upgrade costs 10 steps at Level 3.

Level Statistics

Age	Build Cost	Citizens Needed	Level Min	Build Time	XP Gain	HP	Food Storage	Gold Storage
Dawn Age	100	4	0	6s	2	1,000	600	600
Stone Age	300		0	9s	10	1,200
Bronze Age	3,500		3	2h	385	1,900
Iron Age	16,000		7	14h	?	2,600
Classical Age	100,000		18	2d	1,630	5,600
Medieval Age	500,000		29	4d	2,385	11,700
Gunpowder Age	1,300,000		38	5d	2,700	16,740
Enlightenment Age	3,200,000		60	7d	3,245	33,250
Industrial Age	4,500,000		80	10d	3,840	40,000
Global Age	7,000,000	10	130	12d	7,225	44,000
Atomic Age	9,000,000	12	150	13d	7,550	52,800
Cold War Age	13,000,000		180	14d	8,690	68,640
Space Age	15,500,000		220	15d	9,900	85,000
Digital Age	17,000,000		260	15d12h	9,900	104,550

Maximum Number of Defensive Buildings

Age	Air Defense	Anti-Tank Gun	Catapult / Mortar	Garrison	Gate	Redoubt / Machine Gun	Stable / Tank Depot	Tower	Wall
Dawn Age		-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Stone Age				-	-			2	-
Bronze Age				1	6			2	50
Iron Age			1	2				3	65
Classical Age		1	1 (2^[1])	3			1	3 (4^[2])	80
Medieval Age		2	2 (3^[1])	3 (4)			2	3 (4^[2])	90 (105^[3])
Gunpowder Age		2		3 (4)	8	2	3	4 (5^[2])	100 (115)
Enlightenment Age		3		4 (5)		3		4 (5^[2])	110 (125)
Industrial Age	2 (3)	4	3 (4)			3		5 (6)	120 (135)
Global Age	3 (4)	5			10	4		6 (7)	130 (145)
Atomic Age		6			12	5	4	7 (8)	140 (155)
Cold War Age									140 (155)
Space Age	3 (5)								161 (176)
Digital Age	3 (5)								161 (176)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 An extra Catapult can be built by researching Chapter 3 of the Machinery Technology
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 An extra Tower can be built by researching Chapter 1 of the Watch Towers Technology
↑ Ramparts chapters 1, 3, and 5 each unlock an additional 5 Walls.

Maximum Number of Traps

Age	Ambush Trap	Armored Ambush Trap	Caltrops	Claymore	Decoy Trap	Landmines / Spike Trap	S.A.M. Battery	Signal Flare
Dawn Age	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
Stone Age						-
Bronze Age						1
Iron Age			1			1
Classical Age	1		1			2
Medieval Age	2		2			3
Gunpowder Age	3		2 (3)
Enlightenment Age	4		2 (3)
Industrial Age	5		3 (4)			4
Global Age	6		4 (5)			5	2 (3)
Atomic Age	9		7(8)		2	8	3 (4)
Cold War Age				2			3 (4)	1
Space Age							3 (5)	1
Digital Age		1 (3)			3		3 (5)	2

Maximum Number of Economy Buildings

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Age	Caravan	Farm	Fruit Tree	House	Library	Market	Mill	Road	Storehouse	Temple	Vault
Dawn Age	-	-	3	3 (4)	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
Stone Age	-	-	4	3 (4)		1	1	-	-
Bronze Age	2	2		4 (5)		2	2	30	1
Iron Age	4	4		4 (5)				40		1
Classical Age	5	5	4 (6)	5 (6)	1			50 (60)
Medieval Age	6 (8)	6 (8)		5 (6)				60 (70)
Gunpowder Age				6 (7)		3	3	70 (80)			1
Enlightenment Age				6 (7)				80 (90)
Industrial Age				7 (7)				90 (100)
Global Age				7 (7)				100 (110)
Atomic Age			4 (8)	8		4	4	110 (120)
Cold War Age								110 (120)
Space Age								120 (130)
Digital Age				9		5	5	120 (130)

Maximum Number of Army Buildings

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Age	Airstrip	Barracks	Blacksmith	Castle	Factory	Mercenary Camp	War Academy
Dawn Age	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Stone Age		1	1			-
Bronze Age		2				1
Iron Age		2
Classical Age		3					1
Medieval Age				1
Gunpowder Age
Enlightenment Age					1
Industrial Age	1				1
Global Age	1				2
Atomic Age	2
Cold War Age
Space Age
Digital Age

Trivia

It's reasonable that the the name 'Town Center' came from the building of the same name from the RTS game Age of Empires. Before, Big Huge Games collaborated with Ensemble Studios (creator of Age of Empires) to help create the expansion pack Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties.