Mortar: An artillery unit that fires blasting shells, and is good at attacking buildings or ships.

The mortar is an artillery unit designed to destroy buildings and ships, and like other artillery units, it has a long range and strong attack power, but the mortar does not have a high hit rate against the unit.

Mortars can be trained in gun foundries or transported from home cities. In addition, mortars, like other artillery, are expensive.

Mortars can be used to destroy towns. Because mortars have a long range, they are usually placed in the rear to aim at the enemy. Be careful to keep your mortars safe in close combat.

Historical Background: The mortar is a short-barreled gun capable of projecting large shells in an arc at a high angle of fire.

The original text of mortar (mortar) is the meaning of mortar, as the name suggests, it refers to the shape of the mortar that grinds various materials.

The high angle of fire has a firing arc characteristic that can be used against gun mounts and buildings blocked by terrain or walls, as well as other fixed fortifications.

The mortar shell is filled with gunpowder and equipped with a fuse, which the artilleryman needs to ignite before firing the mortar. Artillerymen had to carefully calculate when the fuse needed to be ignited in order for the shell to explode at the right time.

Therefore, mortars are well suited to attacking buildings and fortresses, rather than armies on the move. 】

"This thing is a weapon to finish the fixed fortress, and it is perfect for siege."

[Cavalry Artillery: A fast-moving artillery that is good at attacking infantry.

This horse-towed artillery unit cost is low, and it has good speed and mobility. Mounted artillery allows you to deploy cannons easily and quickly in battle.

Historical Background: Around the 16th century, military strategists discovered that horses could haul light guns on the battlefield.

According to European history, some commanders would use horse-drawn guns in combination with infantry and even cavalry. This high mobility of horse-towed artillery units makes military leaders better equipped to cope with the ever-changing battlefield. 】

"Yes, this cannon is very useful even if it is about as powerful as the Eagle Cannon."

[Explosive Cartridge: A siege warrior who dies after attacking a building, but will deal significant damage.]

Explosive canisters are small explosive devices used to blow up walls and other fortifications at short distances. Explosive canisters are not only cheap, but they are also very useful in siege attacks.

Historical Background: The name Dynamite Cartridge has been handed down from the Middle Ages to refer to an extremely unstable small explosive device, similar to the concept and use of modern grenades.

The name is supposed to be derived from the Latin word for "fart" (petar), but this is another military joke.

Everyone thinks that "hoisted by one's oward" is just like the literal meaning of "shoot yourself in the foot" or, to put it more bluntly, don't get killed by your own bomb.

In fact, this phrase is derived from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The original text reads:

"Let the military engineer be hoisted by his own bombs." (for 'tis the sport to have the e with his owar)】

Luo Tianjie looked at the introduction of the 'troop' of explosives cartridges, and was silent for a long time.

He was skeptical that Edward's town would really be able to find such demolition squads.

Obviously, the reason why the explosive canister blew up his own people must have been so powerful that the soldiers carrying the explosive canister would even be implicated in escaping......

Of course, this problem can be solved by lengthening the lead, provided that the enemy is blind or foolish and will be indifferent while the long lead burns......

Another stupid way is to dig tunnels and bury a large number of explosive canisters underneath, but this method is easy to say and easy to do......

Just look at the conquerors who entered the age of gunpowder in history, everyone knows that enough gunpowder is enough to tear down any wall building, but when attacking those fortresses, which successful blast is not a lot of painstaking work?

Relatively speaking, sending a group of demolition death squads to rush over with explosives canisters to detonate them directly is definitely not bad in terms of tactical effectiveness, in addition to being inhumane.

"The inhabitants of Edward's Town are all living people, and it is impossible for them to take on this responsibility, unless I use prestige to train.

But I can make a high-yield explosive cartridge first, and then let my tool man ......

Well, that seems like a bit of a waste. ”

Luo Tianjie shook his head and looked at the next class.

[Grimm Machine Gun: An early auto-fire weapon.] Good at attacking infantry, slightly less powerful against buildings.

The Grimm is a fast-firing artillery unit that can destroy enemies in an instant. It was the predecessor of the modern machine gun, which had a long range and high health, as well as a strong attack.

The player must be revolutionized before they can use this unit.

Historical Background: The Grimm machine gun was invented by Richard Green in 1861.

Although it was not yet a real machine gun, it was a powerful gun at the time. The user can rotate 6 barrels by simply shaking the handle, and when fully rotated once, each barrel is reloaded and fired once.

The performance of the Grimm machine gun was stretched to the limit in the American Civil War, and the maximum rate of fire of 600 revolutions per minute was very deadly.

It was not until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that the Grimm machine gun could be seen in large and small conflicts around the world, and it was later replaced by automated machine guns. 】

"I'm rubbing, this weapon is beyond the era of waiting in line to be shot!

Unfortunately, it takes a revolution to recruit, and this is the first time I've seen a limited number of trainable troops.

It's just that Edward's Town has now become a vassal under my name, so what can be considered a revolution? ”

Just when doubts arose in Luo Tianjie's heart, he suddenly received a system prompt, telling him that he only needed to upgrade the territory core to the industrial age for an era, and Edward Town, as a vassal force, could automatically have the technology to manufacture Grimm machine guns.

Luo Tianjie's expression was not happy when he heard this prompt, which meant that he could not quickly train the Green Machine Gun for the time being.

Luo Tianjie had a hunch that as long as he made good use of the Grimm machine gun, it would be no less than the toolman firepower he bought from the real world to be armed with an automatic rifle, which was a self-sufficient automatic weapon firepower in the space of the Age of Empires!

Luo Tianjie looked at a towering building on the periphery of the gun foundry.

Outpost: A tower that can be used to defend the front line.

Outposts are defensive structures with high health, wide field of vision, and strong attack. Outposts can be upgraded to stronger and more powerful frontline outposts.

Outposts are useful for defending your territory, whether it's in your colony, near trading posts and indigenous tribes, or in other strategic locations.

Historical Background: In military conflicts, outposts are structures used to acquire territory.

In the disputed territory of Cripton Island, the outpost serves this purpose. The island was first discovered by Magellan in 1521 and has since fallen into the hands of Spain, France, and the United States.

Eventually, Mexico landed on the island and established outposts on the island to reinforce their claims. However, despite the outposts on the island, the island remained under the control of different countries until the twentieth century. 】