Bastion

Bastion
Production Cost	300
Requires	Castle
Unlocked at	Fortification

The Bastion is a building available in the Enlightenment era.

Game Info

Building a Bastion is requires Castle or any of it's replacement.

• +5 City Defense
• +25 City HP

With Fortified Borders:

+1 Happiness

Overview

A bastion is an angular projection extending from a fortification, specifically designed to address the changes gunpowder had brought to the landscape of war. Their angular shape eliminated dead space in front of the bastion, allowing neighboring bastions to fire upon enemies should they reach the base. Bastions tend to be short and broad, providing ample room for cannons and their crews while presenting a smaller profile for enemy artillery to attack. Should a cannonball strike the bastion and penetrate its stone facade, the interior of hard-packed earth and rubble would absorb the blow. Advances in artillery during the 19th Century, however, would render even these defensive measures obsolete.

Unique Building Replacements

Icon	Building	Civilization	Yields
	Krepost	Russia (Peter I)	-1%  Culture costs for new tiles per every tile away from the Capital this city is Has no building prerequisite Causes enemy units to expend 1 extra Movement if they move through a tile worked by a city with a Krepost +16%  Production cost (350 vs 300)
	Taramandal Pet	Mysore (Tipu Sultan)	Increased City  Defense Provides fewer Hit Points Allows Cushoons adjacent to the city to sacrifice hitpoints to receive another Cushoon Rocket.