Barracks
Kaserne
Bronze Age Barracks
The Bronze Age barracks marks one of the most consequential transitions in military history: the shift from a tribe that fights when it must to a state that maintains professional soldiers as a permanent institution. From the palace economies of Mycenaean Greece to the garrison records of Hattusa and military rosters on Mesopotamian clay tablets, organized states fed, housed, and equipped their warriors in dedicated facilities — and those warriors trained together in a way that produced cohesion no levy army could match. Equipment was stored communally, weapons issued centrally, and veterans passed knowledge to recruits in a structured setting. In the game barracks unlock the core Bronze Age infantry roster: axemen, swordsmen, mace bearers, and spearmen. Build multiple barracks when war approaches — production speed scales with the number you construct, and in the Bronze Age the side that fields more trained infantry faster almost always wins.
- Wood
- 150
- Stone
- 50
Values
- Hit points
- 1200
- Footprint
- 4 × 4
Armor
Trains
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Flint KnappingStone Age
Spear ThrowersStone Age
Bronze SmeltingBronze Age
Bronze WeaponsBronze Age
Bronze ArmorBronze Age
Iron ForgingAntiquity
Steel EdgesAntiquity
ChainmailAntiquity
Shield Wall DisciplineAntiquity
Phalanx DrillAntiquity
Military AcademiesAntiquity
Feudal ContractsEarly Medieval
Plate ArmorLate Medieval
Pike SquaresLate Medieval
Pike and ShotRenaissance
GrenadiersRenaissance
Bayonet TacticsColonial Age
Professional ArmiesColonial Age
Machine GunsModern Age
Trench WarfareModern Age
Combined ArmsModern Age
