Administration Building

Industrialization did not merely change what armies carried into battle — it changed everything behind them. Supplying a nineteenth-century army required railway timetables, requisition forms, field telegraph networks, and divisional staff offices incomprehensible to a Napoleonic general. The administration building is the architectural answer to that complexity: a purposely designed headquarters where civilian and military bureaucracies interlocked to coordinate factory output, conscription rolls, ammunition stocks, and logistics chains across entire continents. Prussian Generalstab doctrine and French Republican organization both depended on exactly this institutional machinery. In the game it unlocks the full spectrum of industrial-era units and advanced technologies, serving as the engine of your late-game economy and force projection. Protect it with layered defenses — no other building contributes more to sustaining the rate of production that industrial warfare demands.