Industrial Age

This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

The Industrial Age follows the Imperial Age as the sixth age of the game. It is the age of iron, where the Industrial Revolution takes place. Your empire becomes more machine that man, and requires a large production rate of food. Stone is regarded as a second-class resource, and is discared and replaced by the fueling of Oil. This precious black gold is extracted from an oil wells built on deserts. Your quarries become obsolete and it is recommended to build better buildings on them, providing you have researched hill construction in the Feudal Age.

In this age, food and coal is used in a very large amount. Most buildings will greatly deplete your food supply, sometimes preventing you from constructing or upgrading another building. Culture also generates at a very slow rate, so it is recommended to build a sixth settlement as soon as possible and capture as many luxuries as you can. Be aware that it is also helpful to capture oil tiles, as the new artillery units require an oil upkeep.

New Buildings

• Army fort (Building)
• Bank
• Oil well (Building)
• Refinery

Military Units

In the Industrial Age you will also get new military troops, using the invention of gunpowder. You will get 3 new ranged units - Riflemen (Unit), Commandos (Unit) and Marksmen (Unit); and 3 new artillery units - Artillery (Unit), Field gun and Howitzer.

Industrial Age Wonders

The wonders for the Industrial Age are:

• The Atomic Bomb

• Particle Acceleration Laboratory

• United Nations

• Dhow Sail

• The Space Shuttle

• Empire State Building

• Global Communication Network

The next age is the Modern Age.